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Audiobooks – do you listen?

May 11, 2019 By Eric Douglas

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.

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Filed Under: Adventure, Books, Free Fiction

Beer, Sand Tigers and ScubaRadio, oh my!

May 5, 2019 By Eric Douglas

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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Filed Under: Adventure, Books, Diving, Travel

Research program to save lives

January 8, 2019 By Eric Douglas

Dr. Elmer Mejia being interviewed by Natalie Morales, NBC.
Listen to Eric Douglas discuss the problem, and the fundraiser, on ScubaRadio with Greg Holt.

GoFundMe fundraiser set up to finance project

Link to the GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/research-program-to-save-lives-of-divers

For more than 20 years, Dr. Elmer Mejia of Honduras risked his life to treat the Moskito Indians who live on the east coast of Honduras and Nicaragua. They suffered injuries using scuba equipment to hunt for lobster – all to feed American and European markets.

Throughout that period, Dr. Mejia treated thousands of cases of Moskito Indians with severe decompression illness including exceptional paralysis and incontinence. Often, Moskito Indian divers were carried into his clinic in Puerto Lempira, Honduras and were able to walk out under their own power several days later. Most had residual symptoms but were not paralyzed.

His treatment protocols fly in the face of conventional wisdom treating decompression illness, often beginning days after the injury with tremendous success. His success in many of these cases is nothing short of miraculous. He has patient records, case histories and in many cases follow up examinations on each of these divers.

Dr. Mejia is working with two nonprofit organizations to compile his patient records in a way that his work can be analyzed and used for extensive research. His patient records were written by hand using paper and pencil and have to be entered into a computer for analysis. Dr. Mejia is working with the American 501(c)(3) organization called the Chronic Disease Registry and the Diving Diseases Research Centre (DDRC) in Plymouth, England.

Donations will go to the non-profit Chronic Disease Registry and they will distribute funds to the DDRC in England as they prepare the database and analyze the data for future publication. They will also distribute some of the funds to Dr. Mejia to support him while he does the painstaking work of translating and recording the data.

The results of this research will revolutionize the care for all injured divers and others who need hyperbaric treatment for wound care.

Donations to this fundraiser will make the lives of all divers safer by improving the care they receive after an injury while helping to improve the lives of the indigenous Moskito Indians who have long been exploited for their ability to dive and their lack of other choices to support their families.

About the DDRC (https://www.ddrc.org/)

DDRC Healthcare (previously known as the Diving Diseases Research Centre) is a British hyperbaric medical organization located near Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon. It is a UK registered charity (no.279652) and was established in 1980 at Fort Bovisand (then called Diving Diseases Research Centre) to research the effects of diving on human physiology. The Centre moved to its site on Plymouth Science Park in 1996.

DDRC Healthcare has become a world authority on hyperbaric medical treatments with many publications detailing its work. DDRC Healthcare promotes, provides and works to increase the availability of high quality, cost effective, hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy, through provision of medical treatment and advice; education and training; and research.

About the Chronic Disease Registry (https://www.uswoundregistry.com/Home)

The Chronic Disease Registry hosts seven medical research registries – all listed with ClinicalTrials.gov including venous leg ulcers, cellular products, negative pressure wound therapy and podiatry. The organization is recognized by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) as quality registries for reporting data on behalf of physicians. They have their own Institutional Review Board (IRB) for reviewing research protocols that use the data and analyzes data to develop improved practice guidelines. Their motto is “Harnessing Technology for Healthcare to Find What Works”.

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Filed Under: Adventure, Diving, Documentary

Audio version of Frog Head Key

October 19, 2018 By Eric Douglas

Frog Head Key cover artSorting through some older files, I stumbled across an audio version of the Withrow Key thriller short story Frog Head Key. I don’t remember recording it and I’m not sure what I planned to do with it. Audiobooks hadn’t really become a thing yet.

It’s not a perfect recording, but if you like to listen to stories here it is. It’s about an hour long so a good story to put in your ears for a solid workout or a couple work commutes.

The story is part of the Tales from Withrow Key collection or you can download it as a standalone. You can find the links to the direct downloads or read along with the Preview (for the first 20 percent or so) on the book page.

Enjoy!

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Murder: With a Grain of Salt Serial

September 10, 2018 By Eric Douglas

In October, I will be releasing a serial story called Murder: With a Grain of Salt. This is a period story, set in 1855 in what was then Charleston, Virginia. The story involves murder, horse chases and river boats along with the burgeoning salt industry.

It will be delivered to your email inbox on October 2, 9, 16 and 23. 

If you already receive monthly emails from me, you will still need to sign up for this special list. I don’t want to send out weekly emails to anyone who isn’t interested. 

Murder: With a Grain of Salt

When an upstanding citizen is murdered on the streets of pre-civil war Charleston, Virginia, the wealthy salt barons who control the town are the main suspects. It’s up to newspaperman Reed Donahue to solve the mystery, but someone is trying to stop him from finding out the truth. Will he become the next victim?


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