Mike Mahan, of Shelflife Creative, has once again come through with a beautiful and evocative cover design for An Irish Miracle. The novel is in it’s final stages of production, so stay tuned for a release announcement coming soon! An Irish Miracle Back, Spine, and Front
A good friend of mine, Eddie Rhoades, once said to me, “Rob, there are too many things in the world that go ‘beep’.” In many of our lives today, amidst the incessant clamor of the modern world, we often forget to leave room for the quiet. I first learned about the idea of “active inactivity”…
I was raised in rural Ohio. It wasn’t a farm, but it was a big enough plot to have a large garden with room left over for pickup football games on crisp fall days. The maple trees added an element of suspense, and someone always went home a bloody hero. There was a little creek…
Kent State University Visual Communication Design professor Michael Mahan has created these awesome logos for Rob Mahan Books and the publishing company Marietta Book Works. Mike is currently working on the cover and interior design for An Irish Miracle. In addition to teaching at KSU, he owns and operates the graphic design firm,…
I am pleased to announce that – Rob Mahan Books – has launched the publishing company – Marietta Book Works – Marietta Book Works will release An Irish Miracle, a novel by Rob Mahan, in the Spring of 2012. Be sure to follow the website for An Irish Miracle and see posts about the novel, excerpts,…
An Irish Miracle spans over a half a century and two countries. With all the strife in the real world today, the stories in it offer a respite, a brief glimpse of simpler times and simpler places. Born in 1945, life for twin boys on an Ohio family farm is filled with hard work. The…
Many athletes have pre-game rituals so why can’t authors have pre-writing session rituals, too? I certainly do. My first ritual (technically, it’s third if you count the first as coffee and the second as settling my four-legged writing companions into their beds . . . more on them in a future post) is to set…