About the Author

James L. Nelson is the multiple award-winning author of eighteen works of fiction and nonfiction. After graduating from UCLA Film School and working in Los Angeles for a few years, Nelson realized it was a damp, drizzly November in his soul, so he took the cure Melville recommended and decided to sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. For six years he worked on board traditional sailing ships including a replica of Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind and the Revolutionary War frigate HMS Rose from Bridgeport, CT, the ship featured in the film Master and Commander. After turning thirty and realizing it would be easier to write about sailing rather than actually doing it, he swallowed the anchor and took up the life of a full time writer. He now lives on the coast of his native Maine with his former shipmate, now wife, Lisa and their four children.