Hi all.

Rob Brickell here in Bluffton SC, just off of Hilton Head Island.

I, and my wife Pam, moved here after a long corporate career with Eastman Kodak Company. I directed worldwide communications for their digital image capture division and then ended my career as mid-south regional manager with Kodak’s digital document imaging division, serving clients such as FedEx, Wal Mart, St. Jude, etc..

I now write full-time. My wife is an artist (watercolors and acrylic) and Master Naturalist (Clemson University) and works as the Arts Program Director on Spring Island in Okatie, SC.

I have published short stories, poetry and prose, some of which is matted and framed and sold at art fairs and galleries along the east coast.

I have one novel completed (The Devil’s Kitchen), the sequel (The Devil’s Emissary) in final edit, and a new Novel tentatively titled ‘TheLong Road Home’ in the works.

THE DEVIL’S KITCHEN was inspired by my years as a Martial Artist, my combat training and top-secret security clearance in the U.S. Army, and a heavy dose of invention. I have attended myriad fiction workshops including the Gell Center Fiction workshop (NY) with Science Fiction novelist, Ms. Nancy Kress and novel workshops with romance novelist Patricia Ryan, horror novelist T.M Wright, and best-selling author John Jakes on Hilton Head, SC.

Overview of ‘The Devil’s Kitchen’:

The cold war is over, and terrorism, revenge, and retribution has begun. Convinced he has escaped the tentacles of COMMEX, a covert government agency, Colonel Brady Thomas’s life is turned upside down by events that hurl him back into a convoluted world he thought left behind. The vocation that took away everything he once held dear, threatens to do so again. His life is in jeopardy, as are the lives of those around him: lifelong comrades and friends, a woman he has come to love and a daughter thought long dead. But, Tyrone Prescott, the prescient, manipulative head of COMMEX has a plan, a preemptive strike mapped out years earlier. This is a story of action and consequence, vengeance and vulnerability; a story that shows how inconsequential lives can be when the end is so unquestionably vital that the means to that end is utterly justified.

Overview of ‘The Long Road Home’:

Jake Slaughter has had enough and is heading back to the South Carolina Lowcountry after twenty years of globetrotting. There, he will confront a lost love, personal demons and a captivating young woman with secrets of her own. A cast of local characters and family members all play a part in his struggle to reclaim his life, to begin anew and to finally love again without the pain and misery of his past.This is a powerful journey across physical and personal landscapes; a story about breaking with the past and a love story about people stifled by grief and regret who struggle to begin anew.