During his four-decade film and television career, Robert J. Emery, who writes novels under the pen name, R. J. Eastwood, has written, produced, and directed feature motion pictures, television documentaries, national television commercials, political campaigns, and industrial films. Some of the highlights of his career include the award-winning ninety-one-episode television series The Directors for Starz/Encore, the award-winning four-part mini-series, The Genocide Factor for PBS, the award-winning documentary For God & Country: A Marine Sniper's Story for MSNBC, and the award-winning motion picture, Swimming Upstream, for the Lifetime Television Network.

Mr. Emery has been honored with over seventy-five industry awards, including seven years in a row at The New York Festivals, two Golden Eagles from The Chicago International Film & Television Festival, top honors at HoustonFest, and the Best Dramatic Feature Film Award for  Swimming Upstream from the Los Angeles Angel City Film Festival. His previous novel, The Autopsy of Planet Earth, was awarded the Author's Circle Novel of Excellence for Fiction, the Readers' Favorite Award for Best Fiction, the Pulp Pen Award for Fiction, and the Book of the Year award from Book Talk Radio Book. He is a Directors Guild of America member, Alliance of Independent National Authors & The Authors Guild.