4013The initial mock-up of the cover art pleased me and confirmed my wife's opinion that I see the world only in shades of blue. Amanda Kelsey has done a great job. On another front, the edits and...

Eternal Press accepted "The Sapphire Sea". No release date yet.
Although it is predominately the story of the final charter of an aging supply boat involved in the development of the offshore oil...

I've been incredibly fortunate in my cover artists over the years and Gemini Judson has managed to change my mind picture of a character for the second time.
Whiskey Creek Press will release the...

I was tempted to wish for fifty more, but I'm not sure I can imagine being one hundred and twenty-five

It's our anniversary on Saturday, the golden one, yet our first meeting seems less than the blink of an eyelid ago because I remember it so clearly. It's the same with all the other memories we...

In May this year, Whiskey Creek Press will release Amy Gallow's final book, Mitchell's Run. This fulfills a promise I made to myself when Saltwater Press failed in 2006. Mitchell's Run was my first...

I began writing romance to learn my craft as a writer from editors and publishers. Sixteen years and twenty published books later, I have switched to the general fiction I started out to write. To...

I set out to be a writer in 1997, knowing what I wanted to write, but aware that I had to learn my craft first. In many ways, The Sapphire Sea is the culmination of my efforts. A contemporary sea...

The first draft of "Offshore" is finished and renamed after the anchor-handling supply boat at its centre, Sapphire Sea, and I've printed out a hard copy to study later.
In the meantime I've turned...

Unlike Coasting, Offshore was never a complete story. More a series of notes written while I was working on anchor-handling supply vessels around the Australian coast. I organised them into a story...

I began writing in 1970s on an ancient Remington portable typewriter, usually perched on my knees in the engine room of various ships. When it gave up the ghost and couldn't be repaired, I replaced...

I shared "Coasting" with a man I've known for close to fifty years. He's still involved in the Australian shipping industry and this is how he responded:

"Congratulations. An Engineer who can work...

When "Coasting" was released, I couldn't resist distributing electronic copies to a raft of my old contemporaries, men who were at sea as the same time as the book was written. Some of them sailed...

Denise Alicia's interview with me is on her site, http://thepenmuse.net/ on Monday, along with a guest post I made on Editors. Pop over and have a look.

Julie woke to a hand on her breast, kneading it roughly.
“Seven bells, Bobby.” Reggie Wilson sprayed spittle in Julie’s face and she reacted with a punch that drove him back a pace.
“Keep your...

Eternal Press will release Coasting on August 1st and Kimberly, our contest guru, will have a competition running for a download of the book and a $25 Coffee Time voucher.
The book is the first of...

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This is a story I first wrote in 1982 while working on supply boats very like the one pictured. I've dragged the original out of the cupboard and am rewriting it again. It's a little like...

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Forty years after it was first written, Coasting has a cover and will be released on August 1st by Eternal Press. Amanda Kelsey has done a great job.
The blurb reads:
Coasting:
(1) to sail...

In the mid 1970s I returned to sea-going after eight years ashore broadening my technical knowledge. I was at a bit of a loss at the time, having reached the pinacle of an ambition and found the view...

I finally found a beginning that satisfied both me and Eternal Press, who will release the book sometime this year.
The brisk northerly blustered its way through the tall stacks of containers and...