I’m excited for the Kindle release of The Sea Rescuers tomorrow. The paperback version for it will be available on September 16th.
The novel started off as a short story, but as I wrote it, the story grew, and it soon expanded to different locations with new characters and world-building elements that took on a life of its own. It was one of those stories where each time I worked on it, I saw something new that I didn’t see before. It was a story I had a lot of fun with, since I imagined it very much like a movie, and I wanted to capture each scene emotionally and visually with words.
There is also humor sprinkled throughout the story, and a lot of research went into the sea creatures, as well as the technology of ships and vessels. I find that with each story I write, I learn a lot in my research as if I were working on a nonfiction book. It makes you appreciate the different fields that are out there, and how much there is to learn about the world.
What I learned the most while writing The Sea Rescuers was to stay true to your vision and to be persistent in completing a story you’ve started. There were times when I was exhausted, times when I wasn’t sure if I would finish the novel. But then it occurred to me that a story won’t finish by itself, and I have to put the time in to complete it, or else, it’ll remain an unfinished work.
I wrote The Sea Rescuers in the spirit of an adventure story, and so it has many suspenseful moments, and includes twists and turns that keeps the characters on their toes. In addition to these aspects, the story explores themes about the environment and biotechnology. One of the great things about literature is that it not only entertain us and gets us turning to the next page, but it can make us think long after we’ve finished reading a book.

