Press Kit

For most events I am partaking in there will usually have been an application where I have provided much of this information already, in the desired format. For those appearances where that is not the case, I provide this selection of bios in multiple lengths, and a selection of downloadable author photos and book covers.

Full Bio

Born and raised in South Alabama, Bob is an Eagle Scout who picks up hitchhikers with reckless abandon and once skinny-dipped at a wedding. To go along with his two useless college degrees he has roadied for a band you've never heard of and broke his wrist in a wall of death at a Divine Heresy show. He once licked the Wailing Wall, shook hands with Glenn Danzig, and is owed a fair ride by a carnival worker.

He’s written for video games, designed board games, and owns a disturbing number of roleplaying games. He’s given a camel a coke in Israel, got flashed in Paris, and watched a monkey steal a man’s wallet in Costa Rica. In addition to the passible podcasts he's made he has also filmed terrible short horror movies and been the producer on a trio of albums. He’s worked and written for musical acts ranging from Upchurch the Redneck to Stitches.

He runs a non-profit while thriving on the groans of those he has punned around. He once dug up a dead cow in a creek thinking it was a human cadaver and has a cousin that’s a water witch,. In college he used to give haunted ghost tours of Troy (even though he’s pretty sure ghosts aren’t real). He’s been stalked, gave a Prophet a lift, and been stagger drunk in more states than he would care to admit.

More relevant he wrote some books, then self-pubbed some other books, and has also been published by a number of other folks with questionable judgment. The fictional things he writes sometimes come weirdly true.

He lives in the middle of Alabama with his amazing LadyFriend, the Kiddo, and a clowder of increasingly portly cats.

Two Sentence Bio

Bob McGough is an author, podcaster, and indie tabletop game designer. He is best known as the author of the Jubal County Saga urban fantasy series, and host of the Books, Beards, Booze Podcast.

100 Word Bio

Bob McGough is an author, podcaster, and indie tabletop game designer from south Alabama. As an author he has been published by a number of small presses in a range of genres, from steampunk to horror. He is best known as the author of his ‘Rural’ Urban Fantasy series, the Jubal County Saga. He teaches a number of classes and workshops on various aspects of the business of writing.

He has freelanced for a number of tabletop and video games, as well as publishing his own small ttrpgs. He is the host/cohost for a number of book based podcasts.

Longer Form Bio

Bob McGough is an author, podcaster, and indie tabletop game designer from south Alabama. He is best known as the author of his ‘Rural’ Urban Fantasy series, the Jubal County Saga. Beyond self-publishing he is also signed with Falstaff Books. He teaches a number of classes and workshops on various aspects of the business of writing.

As a podcaster Bob is the man behind the Tales by Bob Podcast Network. His first show, Books, Beards, Booze, is a conversational style podcast that has run for over 170 episodes. The network hosts a variety of other podcasts in the book, gaming, and paranormal spaces.

A long-time freelance writer, he has worked on a number of published tabletop and video games. As a huge fan of one sheet and simple rpgs, he has released over 30 games in that space across a number of platforms. To this end he has formed Bearded Bard Inkworks, a micropress centered around publishing game content for indie authors.