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Re-release of Sea Turtle Rescue; coming next week

June 27, 2013 By Eric Douglas

Several years ago, after reading the umpteenth Magic Treehouse book with my daughters I decided to write children’s book for them. I asked them what they would like me to write about and I got various answers from fairies to unicorns. After thinking about it for a while, I decided my first children’s book had to be about two little girls and the ocean. I was living in North Carolina at the time and one of my favorite places to visit on this planet is the Outer Banks so it all came together.

 

My first children’s book was Sea Turtle Rescue. It is an early reader/first chapter book, modeled very much after the Magic Treehouse books by Mary Pope Osborne in detail and scope. 

The story: When an injured sea turtle shows up near their home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Jayne and Marie, along with their friends Javier and Monique, search the beach to find the turtle’s nest and protect it from danger. They know the time is getting short and if they don’t find it soon, the eggs might not get a chance to hatch.

 

Sea Turtle Rescue was originally published in cooperation with the environmental organization Oceana. After that, I licensed the story to the Newspapers in Education program and it was published all over the country (and in Bermuda) in serial form by newspapers for young readers. That arrangement has ended and I am re-releasing the story in print and as a Kindle ebook on July 2.
As an added bonus, the story will also be available in Russian and in Portuguese. Spanish is coming soon. (Many thanks to my translators: Daria Tsoukanova, Yanina Pagliara and Luisa Teles Baptista).

 

The second book in the series of Jayne and Marie children’s books is called Swimming With Sharks. It is currently available in both print and Kindle ebook form and features the same two main characters—two young girls living on the Outer Banks and discovering the ocean.

This is the most recent review for Swimming With Sharks.

 

Rick C. reviewed Swimming with Sharks
Appreciation and respect for predators in nature June 17, 2013
This is a story for children and grownups too. Eric Douglas dispels a few misconceptions and replaces them with respect for these predators along the way….following a storyline that anyone should like…!!!!
To celebrate the re-release of Sea Turtle Rescue, Swimming with Sharks will be free as a Kindle ebook from July 2-6.

The third and fourth Jayne and Marie children’s stories are currently licensed to the Newspapers in Education program. They are Hurricane! and Fight for Fort Hatteras. Contact your local newspaper and tell them you want them to run the stories..

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Photojournalist Mike Scott is about to get married to the woman he loves — archeologist Frankie DeMarco – but her kidnapping sets Mike on a collision course with the treasure hunter who took her. The man wants Frankie’s help finding a 400-year-old shipwreck so Mike sets out to find it first to get her back […]

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Spooky Flash Fiction For Advent 2025

December 18, 2025 By Eric Douglas

In the 1963 Andy Williams song, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” there is a line that says “There’ll be scary ghost stories, And tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago.”

Take a flight in a biplane!

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How I got into diving!

https://youtu.be/gKhw-4tORAM

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Heart Survivor Book Proceeds to Heart Walk

Charleston author Eric Douglas will donate proceeds from his book Heart Survivor: Recovery After Heart Surgery to the 2017 Charleston Heart Walk. Douglas wrote the book to detail his recovery from open-heart surgery and his return to fitness to inspire others facing the same diagnosis. In January 2016, Douglas visited his doctor to rule out the […]

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