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Great reviews for Land Sharks!

January 22, 2016 By Eric Douglas

Land Shark CoverTwo more Four Star reviews for the Mike Scott short story Land Sharks. It’s free, so what are you waiting on?

Both of these reviews came through on Smashwords. This story is available in multiple ebook formats, including Nook, Kindle, iTunes and PDF. Of course, if you enjoy the story, there are six full-length novels full of Mike’s adventures.

Review by: JohnGuida49 on Jan. 20, 2016:  Four Stars
A fun story that put me under water scuba diving and on the tropical islands (which was cool). It also embroiled me in an environmental scandal that seemed pretty serious and intense. One minor issue, especially for a short piece, the author could have polished it a bit more and streamlined some paragraphs but not a major issue. I recommend it.

Review by: RetCPO1 on Jan. 21, 2016:  Four Stars
This author really took the time to write a cohesive story. We have several main characters in a tropical setting involved in a crisis that mounts with intensity and violence. The story was pleasant and interesting. Good Job.

Find out more

Read more about the story, and read more reviews, on the Land Sharks book page.

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Happy New Year! 72 hours to save

December 31, 2015 By Eric Douglas

Act between now and Sunday morning, January 3, 2016 to save more than 50 percent!

Box Set Cover Art webFor the next 72 hours, you can take advantage of special pricing on the Mike Scott thriller boxed set and the sixth novel in the Mike Scott thriller series Return to Cayman. But you have to act fast, the price will go up in slowly until the sale ends Sunday morning at 11 am, EST.

Beginning at 8 am on 12/31/15, the price for the Mike Scott Boxed Set (includes five complete novels and two short stories) will be marked down 51%. That price will only last 25 hours and then it goes up. Twenty-five hours after that, it will go up again. The faster you act, the more you save.

cayman cover finalThe same is true for Return to Cayman. Beginning at 8 am on 12/31/15, the price will drop by an amazing 61 percent. It will climb in increments over the next couple days, ending on the morning of January 3, 2016.

Act fast and you can save some dough while getting some fresh reading material for January.

Share the news with your friends so they can take advantage of the deal as well!

Filed Under: Books, Diving

Christmas present to my readers

December 3, 2015 By Eric Douglas

Withrow Key cover Christmas presentMy annual Christmas present to my readers comes in the form of a price reduction and some FREE fiction as well.

For the month of December, I’ve reduced the price on the Tales from Withrow Key collection and Lyin’ Fish. This covers both the softcover and ebook versions.

The softcover of Tales from Withrow Key is now $11 (down from $12) and the Kindle version is now $3.99 (down from $4.99).

Lyin’ Fish’s prices dropped to $5.75 for the softcover and $1.99 for all ebook versions.

Free Reading Material

On my website, you can also read two short stories and a couple flash fiction pieces with an Advent/Christmas/Yule theme:

  • Santa is from Outerspace
  • The End of Darkness and Naughty List
  • Pearl Harbor Christmas
  • A little bit of Grandma

Time to curl up in front of the fireplace and imagine that you’re someplace warm and sunny for the next couple months.

Merry Christmas!

Filed Under: Adventure, Books, Diving

Lyin’ Fish giveaway: ScubaRadio and Ocean Divers

November 24, 2015 By Eric Douglas

ScubaRadio giving away book vouchers2015-11-04 15.50.08At the recent DEMA Show in Orlando, Florida, we organized a joint promotion for the book Lyin’ Fish between ScubaRadio and Ocean Divers in Key Largo. Every morning Greg Holt and ScubaRadio gave away 20 vouchers for free copies of the Withrow Key novella Lyin’ Fish. To get their free copy of the book, fans picked them up at the Ocean Divers booth. It worked out great for everyone, especially the people who got free copies of the book. I signed copies in the ScubaRadio booth as well.

Listen to my recent appearance on ScubaRadio talking about the promotion and the DEMA Show in general.

https://www.booksbyeric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/SR_11-21-15_excerpt.mp3

Filed Under: Books, Diving, New Releases

Withrow Key series now available on Nook, iBook and Kindle!

November 16, 2015 By Eric Douglas

lyin fish cover webThe entire Withrow Key series, including the newly released Lyin’ Fish, is now available in multiple ebook formats. You can read them on Kindle, Nook and iBook and in multiple formats through Smashwords.

Smashwords

You can read a short interview/profile with me on Smashwords and download all of the Withrow Key stories along with the FREE Mike Scott adventure Land Sharks and the children’s collection Sea Turtle Rescue and Other Stories.

Barnes and Noble

You can see all of the Withrow Key short stories here.

Or download the FREE Mike Scott Adventure Land Sharks here.

You can also find the children’s collection Sea Turtle Rescue and Other Stories in softcover and Nook here.

Ibooks

You can find all of those same books on iBooks here.

(Just for the record, the book Leadership Equation is from another Eric Douglas. I didn’t write that.)

For now, the Mike Scott thriller novels will remain exclusive to Kindle, but if the Withrow Key stories do well, Mike Scott could follow suit.

Filed Under: Books, Diving, New Releases

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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!

https://youtu.be/WN8BrcSNel0
https://youtu.be/lFWWbTXrTJQ?si=SJAadKSt9ZLCbOvX

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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Sunlight Prints

Cyanotype printing, also known as Sunlight Prints, is an antique photo printing technique, first used around 1842. Cyanotypes are made by mixing two chemicals (ammonium iron citrate and potassium ferricyanide) and treating paper, cloth or canvas, making it sensitive to ultraviolet light. The sun turns the chemical blue while whatever is shaded stays white. One of the earliest uses for cyanotype was for naturalists to capture images of plants. The same process is used to create “blue prints” of … Read more

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