Debut Novel
On the left is the early cover concept for the first novel created by designer Emerson Ohlson; on the right is a character study by artist Heather Halpern, who works in pencil, ink, and mixed media to capture the emotion and humanity of our characters. Her artwork will be used for all three novels which will help make the concept cohesive. As we get closer to publication—about 28 weeks out—we’ll reveal the final cover along with the artwork for the next two novels in The Further Adventures of Cutty Braughn. Meanwhile every week we are podcasting another chapter of the first novel.
“the last of the goletas”
— book 2 in the further adventures of Cutty Braughn
“where the coquis sing”
About the author
— book 3 in the further adventures of Cutty Braughn
He started writing as a teenager but wisely waited a few decades before letting anyone read a word of it. After a doomed stint in Hollywood, failing as a screenwriter and selling out as a magazine editor, he washed up in Northern California helping his sister raise seven children, a long term social experiment from which everyone somehow survived. He later attempted respectability as a cabinetmaker and shipwright, then wandered into life as a marine surveyor, ship’s agent, and innkeeper. Now he mines his own misadventures for fiction and has lived in the Puerto Rico for forty-Five years.