Inside the world of Rob Mclean, Author

Closing in on completing the plot for my next book. If The Fall of Man was difficult to categorize, this one is going to be near impossible. There will be elements of scifi, metaphysical, psychological, mystery, and possibly a bit of horror. And the story is somewhat non-linear, but done right it should read well. And by non-linear I don't mean time-travel or anything, just a blending of storylines that will pull readers in different directions as the story unfolds. Generally, it's not smart to blend so many genres (people tend to like a heavy dose of one genre). But, it's the story I want to tell. So I need to stop worrying about the confines of the "market" and just write. :) This novel is going to be about how we respond when something that should not be possible, happens. It will focus on the consequences of that event on the human psyche, society and the world-at-large (while obviously trying to figure out how it happened). I don...

Working on the plot for my next book. This one is really challenging the old nogging. Why do I do this to myself? I come up with a good idea, then think "but what if we add a little complexity here", then think on it some more "and a little complexity over here as well"... before you know it, it's like juggling 20 balls at once. Still haven't had that "click" moment where everything fits together just perfectly, but it's getting there. A little peek behind the curtain:  this book is going to be about how people cope/react when something unthinkable happens in the world (hint: it's not a disaster, something else). I'll say no more on that  :) For this book I had been going back and forth on the degree to which I wanted to write to market. Which isn't to say tropes, but more playing with things I know would work but which are a tad formulaic. Which I did a bit with Obey and A Manufactured Mind but not with The Fall of Man tr...

Hi Folks, Just a heads up. I've been running The Fall of Man: Days of Judgment for free over the past few months. That will be ending in mid-April. So if you have friends who may want to give it a read, let them know to download it in the next week or so.