The Black Rose
by Richard Corwin
Price: Free! 4520 words.
Published on September 22, 2011. Fiction.
A comming of age sailing experience from Hawaii to China for Dick Chandler who finds himself caught up in a trip of intrigue. This short story is available only on e-readers and will appear in print in Caribbean Bones, Tales Forgotten,a collection of short stories to be released in 2012.
Location: United States
Member Since: May 02, 2010
Richard Corwin
Biography
Richard Corwin began serious writing in 1977as contributing writer, illustrator and Managing Editor of Caribe News and Reviews, a Florida based adventure and travel magazine. He has received critical acclaim for his best selling short stories which have appeared in volumes four and five of, “In Good Company,” published by Live Wire Press and “Critics Choice,” published by the Chesapeake Bay Writers.
USA Book News awarded his anthology of short stories, “Midnight Gates,” published in 2007 by Xlibris a partner of Random House, a Best Books Finalist award. Many of his stories have been published in British magazines, “Hackwriters,” “Magnus,” and in “The El Ojo del Lago,” an English magazine published in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. He has worked with noted folk singer and song writer Glenn Yarbrough on “Through a Lighthouse Window,” a project of Glenn’s for future publication.
His latest project, “Caribbean Bones,” is about friends, acquaintances, a few scoundrels and others who added excitement to his experiences of working, playing, and sailing boats around the Caribbean and was awarded the USA Book News Best Books Finalist award in 2011.
After leaving his Caribbean home he continued sailing around Florida and the Bahamas. A search for exciting and different adventures took him to explore Inca ruins in the high Andes Mountains of Peru and Mexico’s tropical, jungle covered Mayan cities.
In South America he canoed down the Amazon River staying with Bora Indians, a tribe of former head hunters, hiked the Peruvian Andes to ancient Inca ruins and traveled to Lake Titicaca in the Puno district of Southern Peru where he and his wife Brenda was entertained by Shining Path guerillas. These adventures have provided inspiration for many of his short stories.
USA Book News awarded his anthology of short stories, “Midnight Gates,” published in 2007 by Xlibris a partner of Random House, a Best Books Finalist award. Many of his stories have been published in British magazines, “Hackwriters,” “Magnus,” and in “The El Ojo del Lago,” an English magazine published in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. He has worked with noted folk singer and song writer Glenn Yarbrough on “Through a Lighthouse Window,” a project of Glenn’s for future publication.
His latest project, “Caribbean Bones,” is about friends, acquaintances, a few scoundrels and others who added excitement to his experiences of working, playing, and sailing boats around the Caribbean and was awarded the USA Book News Best Books Finalist award in 2011.
After leaving his Caribbean home he continued sailing around Florida and the Bahamas. A search for exciting and different adventures took him to explore Inca ruins in the high Andes Mountains of Peru and Mexico’s tropical, jungle covered Mayan cities.
In South America he canoed down the Amazon River staying with Bora Indians, a tribe of former head hunters, hiked the Peruvian Andes to ancient Inca ruins and traveled to Lake Titicaca in the Puno district of Southern Peru where he and his wife Brenda was entertained by Shining Path guerillas. These adventures have provided inspiration for many of his short stories.
Where to buy in print
Books
Caribbean Bones
by Richard Corwin
Price: $1.99 USD. 45110 words. Published on August 18, 2011. Fiction.
Stories are true with a little fiction making them "Faction" stories. Drug smugglers, insurance fraud, sex, asassination, sailing, treasure hunting, and good times were the inspiration for this collection. These are short stories about a time when living in the Caribbean Islands was truly a paradise; a frontier where it took more than a simple desire to live on an island to survive.
Price: $1.99 USD. 45110 words. Published on August 18, 2011. Fiction.
Stories are true with a little fiction making them "Faction" stories. Drug smugglers, insurance fraud, sex, asassination, sailing, treasure hunting, and good times were the inspiration for this collection. These are short stories about a time when living in the Caribbean Islands was truly a paradise; a frontier where it took more than a simple desire to live on an island to survive.
Midnight Gates
by Richard Corwin
Price: Free! 59000 words. Published on May 2, 2010. Fiction.
Midnight Gates is a 2007 USA Book News Award winning collection of short stories. “Another Corwin in Print and I’m glad you write so well. I wish I had written this book.” Norman Corwin, poet laureate, screenwriter, educator, essayist, author
Price: Free! 59000 words. Published on May 2, 2010. Fiction.
Midnight Gates is a 2007 USA Book News Award winning collection of short stories. “Another Corwin in Print and I’m glad you write so well. I wish I had written this book.” Norman Corwin, poet laureate, screenwriter, educator, essayist, author
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china
cocaine
double eagle
fort lauderdale
gold
gun smuggling
hippos
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humor
hurricane agnes
hynotist
hypnosis
marijuana
mystery
pacific
piracy
pirates
sailing
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salvage
schooner
science fiction
scorpions
sewers
siamese twins
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st croix
st thomas
tortola
treasure