Book Chat: Bob Emery

The Freelance Life

Bob Emery writes under the pen name R.J. Eastwood. Over his long career as a member of the Directors Guild of America, he has written, produced, and directed both feature films and television programming and everything in between. His production work has garnered him over 75 industry awards along the way. To date, Bob has published seven books, four of which were nonfiction based on his Starz/Encore television series “The Directors.” His first novel, In the Realm of Eden, was chosen as one of the top five finalists in the Next Generation Indie Books Awards.

In the fall of 2017, he published the science fiction adventure The Autopsy of Planet Earth. It won the 2018 Readers’ Favorite Gold Award for Science Fiction, the 2018 Book Talk Radio Book of the Year, and the 2017 Authors Circle First Place Award for Fiction.

He is busy working on his eighth book The White Prize. When not writing, Bob can be found in the kitchen creating and preparing sumptuous Italian meals. He credits his culinary expertise to his Sicilian mother, who took the time to teach him to cook.

Bob has recently published a book called Midnight Black.