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DAVID POYER -- THE HOME PAGE

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, 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 localghosting jacket bookseller, or (still more choices!) click through direct to Macmilan/St Martin's now to order THE WEAPON here.

I'm done with the final draft of a sailing thriller, 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, so you can advance order now.  (Actually it helps your favorite authors if you pre-order . . . since initial print runs are often sized based on the pre-orders from bookstores.)

 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.)

This site gets revised and updated 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.






New Books -- featuring  THE WEAPON in paperback (December 2009), THE CRISIS in hardcover (November 2009), and GHOSTING in hardcover (November 2010)

Upcoming Appearances

Biography

Interviews, Essays, and Biographical Articles

Tales of the Modern Navy (Dan Lenson Novels)

Tiller Galloway Diving Adventures

Hemlock County

The Civil War at Sea

Stand-Alone Titles

Ordering Information -- Signed First Editions, Collector's Items, and Gifts

Downloadable Photos and Book Jackets (high resolution)

Writing Tips and Advice

Philo McGiffin Home Page

Contact information.



Dr John Phillips aboard ISS 2005
 Dr. John Phillips enjoying some recreational reading aboard the International Space Station, 2005



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