about me

Robert Eisner's biography is as follows:

Robert is a veteran of the entertainment industry and originally from the Pacific Northwest. Since arriving in Hollywood over a decade ago Robert has worked his way up the often unaccredited career ladder from roles such as Hot Sheet Writer, through Production Assistant and Field Producer to his most recent position as Senior Q.A. Producer for one of the major television networks. Robert has taken an indefinite break from work, choosing to travel for the foreseeable future.

For the purposes of this forum I, Iain H McLean, will be the user. If you want to get a message to Robert his email is provided below.

I just think books are ace! I love the smell of bookstores and libraries. My Amex gets burned regularly because of them. I know I should download ebooks but I love the feel of a bit of tree in my hand.

Call it my porn if you want, a bit of naked tree glistening in the light from my nightstand while I try to read in bed without waking up my wife.

I was educated in architecture and found myself working in an illustrious position as R&D Director for one of America's largest home improvement companies. I resigned to become a professional writer. Not a sensible move in most eyes.

Since then I have worked for two of the three major US television networks on various prime time shows as well as freelance for independent production companies in Hollywood, Canada, India and the UK.

I currently live in Melbourne, Australia with my wife and our two dogs after leaving Los Angeles to rejoin reality and the human race.

Turning away from having to restrict myself to 120 pages of courier 12pt font I now enjoy crafting what I call real writing. I have one novel finished (BARSTOW with Robert Eisner) and am working on a novella (THE TULIP GARDEN) which should be finished soon.

I can be reached on:
iainhamiltonmclean@gmail.com

Robert can be reached at:
roberteyesn@gmail.com

favourite books

Beside me in the study I have my thesaurus and an engineering catalogue and as neither really leave my desk I suppose I would have to say they would be in my favorite books list by default.

Otherwise I loved The Road by Cormac McCarthy, have got deeply into Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and haven't stopped trying to analyze Bukowski's Women since last I read it.

Siddartha made me relax and that book has now been round the world twice in loan-outs.

The Rum Diary is excellent from HST as is Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.

Loved Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men as well as Brett Easton Ellis' work American Psycho. I think that his chapter "A Glimpse Of Friday Afternoon" is a masterpiece.

I read Embers by Sandor Marai and was held by the night in complete stillness. I studied Aristotle's Poetics and learned a great deal.

Chuck Palahniuk's Choke was a good read and when I was lucky enough to see the movie on the Fox lot in Los Angeles in a pre-release screening I was glad to have read the book before the movie came out.

Norman Mailer's work The Spooky Art helped me stop scribbling and panicking and allowed me to really begin to write.

I also loved my corvette workshop manual and Watchmen; again - shame about the movie...

If we were to go on the list would have to include:
Naked by David Sedaris
Sebastian Junger's A Death In Belmont
Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
Will Eisner's Dropsie Avenue
Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op
Herman Hesse's book The Journey To The East
The Acid house by Irvine Welsh
Perfect World by Brian James

And finally a book about a Russian POW escapee called Survival I read when I was eleven and was published by Penguin Books.

Can you ever really have a 'final' favorite book?

my websites

http://redefinedevotion.blogspot.com/     http://roberteisner.blogspot.com/