Talking with Greg the Divemaster from Scuba Radio about “Return to Cayman” and the upcoming release party at Sunset House.

Find out more about the book on the Return to Cayman page.

And more about the release party on this post!.

It’s time to “Return to Cayman”. Even if you’ve never been there!

For the 10^th anniversary of my first novel, Cayman Cowboys, Mike Scott is going to “Return to Cayman” and so can you! The first week of June, (May 30-June 6) I’m going to Sunset House and going diving. I plan to sign copies of the new book Return to Cayman (due out soon) while I’m there, too. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the Return to Cayman books that I sign on the island will be donated to the Cayman Magic Reef Restoration project. I’m also planning to donate a portion of online sales for copy of Return to Cayman sold through the end of July. So, if you can’t make it, you can still get a fun read and help support the reef restoration project at the same time.

In case you don’t know, on August 27, 2014 the cruise ship Carnival Magic dropped its anchor in a restricted area near Don Foster’s dive shop. The grounding tore up more than 12,000 square feet of coral reef.

Volunteer divers from dive operations all over the island are coming together to clean up the reef and reattach surviving coral. Divers have worked to clear off the torn up coral, salvaging the still-living pieces and moving them to an underwater nursery to keep it growing until the site can be cleaned and repaired. Once everything is ready, the volunteer divers will reattach the coral to the reef using a specially-developed marine epoxy. In spite of the volunteer labor, the repair bill will likely run into the millions of dollars. They need money for equipment and supplies for the reef restoration.

Read this article from Scuba Diving Magazine.

If you’re interested in going diving that week, come on down. Contact Sunset House and tell them you are coming down for the “Return to Cayman” release party. The book will be available soon, so stay tuned!

You can find out more information about Sunset House on their website.

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On a mostly unrelated note, the Kindle version of the third Mike Scott novel, Guardians’ Keep, is on sale for just $.99! Get it while it’s hot. (There might just be a tie-in to Return to Cayman as well, but you didn’t hear that from me…).

Get the novel on sale now!

I’m in the final editing stages with the latest Mike Scott thriller Return to Cayman. In the story, I’ve brought back a character from an earlier story, Dr. Francesca “Frankie” DeMarco. She was the central figure in the book Guardians’ Keep that came out in the fall of 2008. Reviewing the story, a friend asked “Have you seen Dig?”

I hadn’t, so I checked it out. My mind was blown.

In Guardians’ Keep, Mike and Frankie were searching for the Breastplate of Judgment, a device worn by the Jewish High Priest when he went into the temple in front of the Ark of the Covenant to talk to God. In Dig, a new 10 part thriller on USA Network Thursday nights at 10 pm., they are looking for the same thing.

I’m not going to give away the story in Guardians’ Keep, or what’s going on in Dig, except to say they are separate stories and other than the breastplate, there is no similarity. Still, I find that piece of ancient history fascinating and for it to show up on television is really interesting to me. If you want more background on the breastplate and what it was used for, you can find that in Guardians’ Keep.

Since someone else is “looking for” the Breastplate of Judgment, I’ve decided to put the Kindle version of Guardians’ Keep on sale while the show airs. For the next two months, you can download Guardian’s Keep for just $.99. (This is the direct link to Amazon.)

If you haven’t read it, you really should before Return to Cayman comes out, so you have added insight into Frankie as well..

Just in time for winter weather, I’ve released a special collection of Withrow Key dive adventure short stories on both Kindle and in softcover. And right now, you can get the Kindle version for half what it will be next week — $1.99

Get Tales from Withrow Key now!

The following is the introduction from the book, to explain everything.

Over the years, many of my readers have said my books read like a television show or a movie and that they can “see” my stories as they read them. That got me thinking about what it would be like to actually create a television show. And that was where Withrow Key came from.

I toyed with setting a story in the islands somewhere, but for logistics and quirk, it made more sense to go to the Florida Keys. The first story in this series, Going Down With the Ship, was originally published as a serial on ScubaRadio.com by my good friend Greg Holt. We had fun promoting the story each week on his syndicated radio show. A few of the later stories were originally published on ScubaDiving.com, the home of Scuba Diving Magazine, where I’ve been a regular contributor for several years.

The Withrow Key characters have evolved and changed over the years. The one constant has been Jackson Pauley, a New York City firefighter who left the city after 9/11 to find some peace. Instead, he found plenty of adventure, but wouldn’t have it any other way. In Queen Conch, I decided to write a crossover story and Mike Scott, the main character from my novels, came to visit.

The last story in this collection, Life Under the Sea, is also available as a standalone ebook, but it is brand new. It definitely won’t be the last story, however.

With these eight short stories, we have the scripts for the first episodes of a Withrow Key television series. Now I just have to find a producer…

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