Debut Novel-OCTOBER 2026

Started writing stories as a teenager and, in a rare bout of wisdom, waited a few decades before letting anyone see them. After a doomed stint in Hollywood—failing as a screenwriter and later working as an editor for LA Showguide—he drifted north, where he helped his sister with raising seven children — a long‑term social experiment that everyone survived. Respectability made a few halfhearted passes: cabinetmaker, shipwright, marine surveyor, ship’s agent, innkeeper—each one another chapter in the education of a man who probably should have tried harder as a writer. These days he does what Cutty Braughn does on the page: mines wrecked plans and questionable life choices for stories, riding them down the coasts of the Americas into the Caribbean and back to a small inn in Puerto Rico, where he’s survived forty‑five years, three major hurricanes, and more plot twists than any sensible protagonist would sign up for.