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Escape to the Islands: For just $0.99!

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I don’t know about you, but the evening news makes me want to get away. Not saying the situation isn’t serious (because I believe it is) but the best thing most of us can do is stay home. And considering that most events have been canceled, it’s time to dust off your e-reader and escape to the islands.

To get you started, I’ve reduced the price on two short story collections to just $0.99. There is one for the kids and one for adults. Download them today and escape to the islands for a while.

Sea Turtle Rescue and Other Stories: The Adventures of Jayne and Marie

Two young girls move to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and learn about the ocean and life on the coast. There are four early chapter books in this collection, written for readers six- to nine-years-old. The stories are exciting but also include information on science, the ocean and history.

Tales from Withrow Key

Tales from Withrow Key is an anthology of Withrow Key thriller short stories. Each tale centers around the adventures of Jackson Pauley, a New York City firefighter who retired after 9/11 and his partner Randy Littlebear, a tribal cop from the reservation to the north. And don’t forget the rest of the characters that make up the Conch Republic.

Talking viruses, diving Mexico and Clive Cussler on Scuba Radio

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Whenever my friend Greg Holt, host of the nationally-syndicated diving-centric talk radio show ScubaRadio calls, I jump at the chance to be on. 

I’ve posted excerpts from the show before, but it’s been a while, so here is my most recent appearance, from March 7, 2020. Greg and I talked about everything from the Corona virus, to diving in Mexico and how my book Heart of the Maya stuck with him, to the recent passing of Clive Cussler, a diving-writing hero of mine. 

Check it out!

Author Eric Douglas Releases New FBI Thriller Novel

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The latest novel from author Eric Douglas involves a mysterious murder cult brought to the United States to sow discord and terror.

Real Thugs: A Cult of Murder — Small groups of travelers have disappeared all over the mid-Atlantic without a trace. When bodies turn up with what appear to be ritual markings, FBI Agent AJ West is on the hunt for what might be a serial killer. Or something even more sinister. It’s a race against time to make sure no one else goes missing and stop the killer, or killers, before there is a nationwide panic.

Douglas explained that he became interested in this story while reading an out-of-print book by Mark Twain. Twain took an around-the-world speaking tour and told the story of the Thuggee, a group of thieves who traveled India killing and stealing. The group was wiped out by the British during the period of colonial rule.

“They killed their victims by strangulation using scarves they tied around their waists,” Douglas said.

From there, Douglas read “Confessions of a Thug” by Captain Philip Meadows Taylor. That book purports to be an interview with a Thuggee leader in prison. The book was written in the mid-1800s.

At that point, Douglas knew he wanted to use the Thuggee in a new book. He just needed a protagonist. Enter FBI Special Agent AJ West.

“I created AJ for my novel Water Crisis: Day Zero last year. That was the most recent of the Mike Scott thriller series. I enjoyed her character so much, I decided to spin her off into her own book,” Douglas said.

Douglas has been writing fiction since his first novel, Cayman Cowboys, was published in 2004. This is his 19th book, including a combination of fiction and nonfiction.

Real Thugs: A Cult of Murder is available on Amazon Kindle and in softcover wherever books are sold. For more information on Real Thugs, or any of Douglas’ other books, visit his website at BooksByEric.com.

Audiobooks – do you listen?

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Three of my four audiobooks. Turks and Chaos is also an audiobook.

So, here’s the thing. Four of my stories are available as audiobooks. I haven’t released a new one in a year or so, for various reasons, but this morning I was checking into something and stumbled across information that has me dumbfounded.

When you produce an audiobook through Audible, they give you promo codes that you can give to people. It is a free book they can download and listen to. I’ve gotten 25 codes for each book. I have to admit I haven’t given them all out, but most.

I discovered this morning that fewer than 10 codes for three of the books have been redeemed. They went to people who said they were interested and wanted the codes. And then they never bothered to redeem them.

I mean, I’ve run quizzes and contest and games to give the codes away. But they have gone to waste. Unfortunately, I don’t know which ones or I would redistribute them.

So, for the next few days, if you want a promo code from one of my four books, shoot me an email and I will send you one.

(For the record, I am not using this as a way scam email addresses. I only send my monthly emails to people who intentionally sign up for my mailing list. There are some benefits of that, of course.)

There is only one stipulation. You MUST download the book. I would also ask that you post a review when you are done with it. I’m not even going to ask that it is a positive one. Just give it an honest review.

Simple as that. I will keep this up until I run out of the codes. If there is enough demand, I’ll get some more and keep going.

Seriously.

Beer, Sand Tigers and ScubaRadio, oh my!

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Yes, I know that is a such a cliché headline, but I’m not sure I’ve ever used it before. (Maybe there is a good reason for that.)

My good friend Greg Holt, the host of nationally-syndicated talk radio show ScubaRadio called me the other day while I happened to be out in the field working on a completely different project.

We talked about diving, adventure books, beer brewing and nearly everything else in this 10-minute interview.

I was on in Hour 2. Here is Hour 1. He also does a cool interview with Josh Gates from Expedition Unknown at the beginning of Hour 2.

By the way, this is the brewery I was standing in while we spoke: Weathered Ground Brewery in Cool Ridge, West Virginia. Check them out!

Enjoy!

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