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.
The latest books -- THE THREAT, KOREA STRAIT, THE WEAPON, THE CRISIS
-- are available on Kindle as well.
For collectors and gift buyers -- 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? THE CRISIS came out in hardcover in December
of '09. It follows Dan, Teddy, Aisha, and
others into East Africa on a USN/USMC humanitarian mission to relieve
drought and famine in the strategically important county of
Ashaara. See New Books below for more on this exciting and timely
new
novel. Call your local bookseller now!
THE
WEAPON came out in paperback recently too, 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, or (still more choices!) click through
direct to Macmilan/St
Martin's now to order THE
WEAPON here.
I'm finishing the final draft of a sailing thriller, tentatively titled GHOSTING. As usual the first draft went long . . . but has been pared down severely. I was in a bad mood because I had to kill off some "good" characters, but once I got done with the "villains" my mood was a good deal better. GHOSTING will be out in November of 2010.
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 update this site several times a year, so check back occasionally
for fresh
material. Yes, I do update it myself . . . which is part of why
it doesn't have the eye-opening graphics you'll find on other sites . .
. sorry about that! Writing these books just eats up the hours
like you wouldn't believe!
Thanks for dropping by, and my sincere thanks to all my fans for your support over the years!
Yours in the Word,
Dave.
