Welcome aboard! This site provides updates on new publications, a schedule of upcoming appearances, bio data, and a small archive of selected articles, interviews, and essays. It has information on works in print, including downloadable sample chapters; a section on collector's editions; and advice for beginning writers. You can also order autographed first editions direct.
My fiction falls into four series -- Dan Lenson, Tiller Galloway, Hemlock County, and the Civil War at Sea books -- along with the occasional one-off. For details on each series, see below.Most bookstores, independent or chain, either stock my books already or can get them quickly. To order from them by phone: note down the title and the ISBN from here, and phone your friendly local retailer. Most stores can have a volume for you in only a few days, even if they don't have it on the shelf at the moment.
Another choice is on-line ordering through one of the online
bookstores. They'll have those earlier books that are still in
print in
paperback, but for some of the earlier titles, your only source will
be used bookstores, or this site.
Finally, I have a limited number of hardcover first editions of my
titles. For information on having them autographed or personally
inscribed for your collection, or to give as a gift, see Ordering
Information -- First Editions, below.
What am I doing right now? Next
out, this November, is THE WEAPON, a fast-moving story about a
rocket torpedo designed to destroy US aircraft carriers -- and Dan's
mission to buy, beg, or steal one so that NRL and NUSC can build a
countermeasure before Iran uses it to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Call your local bookseller to reserve a copy of the hardcover
now! KOREA STRAIT came out in December '07. It's based on a
cruise I did in the 90's with the ROKN -- the South Korean Navy.
The mass market paperback of that will be out this December. I'm
plotting the next two books, one of which may (or may not) be a sailing
thriller. And working on the '09 book, tentatively titled THE
CRISIS. This is turning out to be a long mother that I'm going to
have to cut severely on the second draft....
And readers of Shipmate,
be on the alert this fall for a surprise announcement relating to my
recent two-part article on the life and death
of the
Academy humor magazine, The Log.
I'm still on the faculty of Wilkes University, in Wilkes-Barre, PA,
teaching in the MA/MFA in Creative Writing program, with
residencies in January and June of each year. This is a good,
tough program. I mentor new novelists in that program,
one on one; I have some very promising students who are finishing their
first
books. (For more info on that as well as my essays on writing,
see
Writing Tips and Advice, below.)
I appreciate your interest in my work! I revise and update this site several times a year, so check back occasionally for fresh material. Thanks for dropping by, and my sincere thanks to all my fans for your support over the years!
Yours in the Word,
Dave.
