Rob Beattie – Book Author | Songwriter
Rob Beattie Then…
Rob Beattie is a freelance copywriter, computer journalist and author of books about camping, fishing and boating. In the ’80s and ’90s he edited PC User, What Personal Computer? and Computer Life. He’s written 25 books on subjects as varied as Windows Vista and Office 2007, fishing, family camping, boating for beginners, traditional D-I-Y, home science, making movies and Ray Mears-style outdoors survival.
He’s also written thousands of articles for magazines and newspapers – including the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Express, Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard – on Windows PCs and software, Apple Macs, the Internet, music, film and general entertainment; Rob’s also an experienced print and web copywriter and back in the day had a particular interest in writing documentation for hardware and software products and services. Find out more about Rob’s books (or even buy one) on the BOOKS page.
Rob Beattie Now…
These days, Rob divides his time between the occasional book project and writing songs with an acoustic/Americana twist. Find our more about Rob’s songwriting (or even buy his new CD) on the MUSIC page.
Rob Beattie Who?
If you know my name, but not from my books and journalism, it’s likely through Fairport Convention. Thanks to the late, much-missed Beryl Marriott, the Fairports heard a demo of mine – Red Tide – and decided to include it on their Jewel In The Crown album (1995). Since then, they’ve covered three more of my songs – Man In The Water, Moses Waits and A Thousand Bars. As luck would have it, the last two are included on my new CD. The other two are – as they say – coming soon…