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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…).

Guardians’ Keep novel mirrors Dig television show

March 24, 2015 By Eric Douglas

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..

Five novels on Kindle for the Price of One

February 9, 2015 By Eric Douglas

Saturday, February 7, Eric was on Scuba Radio with Greg Holt talking about the new 5 book boxed set. Listen to it here!

A new Mike Scott Adventures Boxed Set is now available on Kindle that includes all 5 Mike Scott adventure novels along with two short stories featuring Mike as well. In all, this is a $17 value, and would cost more than $50 in softcover, and you can get it all for just $9.99. Go to Amazon to download it right now!

But wait, there’s more…

Okay, not really, but that’s still a pretty cool deal. The digital age of publishing has changed everything about how books are priced and sold. What you used to pay for a single novel (or less) can now get you five complete books and a couple bonuses as well.

If you’ve ever thought about reading the Mike Scott stories, but weren’t sure where to begin, here’s the solution. Download the boxed set and read them all.

Even better, the next Mike Scott story will be out June 1, 2015 and there are several cross references and tie-ins to the earlier books. Here is your chance to catch up on the earlier stories and catch all of the insider references.

This box set includes five Mike Scott adventure novels and two short stories, ordered chronologically in the order they were released.

Cayman Cowboys: Diving in Grand Cayman, magazine photographer Mike Scott notices a series of unusual occurrences including the death of a girl, a protest of new development and the systematic destruction of coral reefs. Investigating, he witnesses a specially-equipped submarine destroying the reef. Before he is able to report the destruction to the authorities, he and his dive buddy, Kelly, are kidnapped – along with Kelly’s girlfriend Tanya.
Flooding Hollywood: Criminals in Los Angeles are using a dive operation to smuggle illegal drugs into the City of Angels. Or are they up to something more sinister? It is up to photographer Mike Scott to figure it out. And he has to do it before disaster strikes the heart of the city.
Guardians’ Keep: Francesca DeMarco, a beautiful archaeologist, is searching an underwater site on the Adriatic Coast of Italy. Chasing stories of a mysterious group of Guardians, she runs into roadblocks as someone tries to keep her from discovering the truth. Underwater photographer Mike Scott is sent to do a story on the project, but when he and Dr. DeMarco are nearly killed in the process he decides to help her discover the truth.
Queen Conch: Queen Conch is a protected species in the United States, but smugglers are catching them close to Withrow Key for restaurants in Miami. In the process, they are tearing up the coral reefs and creating an environmental disaster.
Wreck of the Huron: When the USS Huron went down off the coast of North Carolina in 1877, she took most of her crew with her and a mystery about why they were headed to Cuba in the first place. When a present-day storm uncovers a long-hidden portion of the wreck, including the captain’s lock box, international photojournalist Mike Scott and his friends dive on the wreck to find out more.
Heart of the Maya: Murder, kidnapping and the theft of an ancient Mayan statue, both 500 years ago and today, and diving in cenotes on the Mayan Riviera all come into play. Speaking at his alma mater Mike Scott learns that the death of a friend 25 years before might not have been an accident.
Land Sharks: International news photographer Mike Scott is on assignment in The Bahamas, working on a story about the recovery being made by Tiger Sharks because of the island-nation’s no take laws. When he discovers several sharks that have been finned and thrown back in the ocean to die, he goes searching for the most dangerous predator in the ocean: Man!