Quick Blog, but some important and timely announcements.

A sale on 2 of the books, a Book Festival, and more to come!

Three Big Announcements and a Cover release!

Book #4 is almost ready for publication! The Cover of Treasure in the Swamp is amazing! I’ll be attending the Louisville Book Festival on October 24th!

Check the blog for more details!

For the month of October, as the #LouisvilleBookFestival approaches, we’ll be slowing down our 110 park facts, so we can focus on the creep tales in more detail.

This week, I cover ghost pirate ships, ghostly coffee, and some expert speculation on a frequent ghost hunting mistake made in a popular national park.

In addition, if you happen to be near Kentucky on October 24th, come to Louisville, and check out the Kentucky Book Festival, at the Kentucky Convention Center from 10am-5pm to meet with more than 150 of the coolest authors out there. (I’ll be there too.)

Why does the internet think that I want to put a shark heart in a human body?

In honor of the 110th anniversary of the National Park Service, I’m sharing 110 facts about our national parks! Some of these you may know. But you’ll know all of them if you just check back once a week! This week, it’s all about the family… After a short diversion to talk about shark hearts.

Come for 10 more facts. Stay for the hilarious search result conversation, and skip the end. More facts next week!

Week #3 of the 110th National Park anniversary. Here are 30 more facts about national parks designed to impress. With links to sources if you want to learn more. I’m having fun doing this, and learning more myself. News about Book #4 and other progress soon!!!

We’re a week past National Park Week. But is a week really enough.

Here are 10 more facts which let you delve a little deeper into the lore of our national parks. (Last week had a strong history bent, so this time I tried to feature a few more natural facts.)

Facts # 11-20, With a bonus fact at the end! Fact #15 surprised even me!

In honor of the 110th Anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service, I wanted to do something special. So, I thought, “why not a social media campaign for 110 days, with 1 interesting/impressive fact about our National Parks each day?” - Posted to relevant social media?

Here is a compilation of the first 10 facts that will be going up over the course of the next 10 days! Happy National Park Week. Happy Junior Rangers Day.

More to come soon, stay tuned!

Limited Time sale! Treasure of Biscayne Bay is now available for only $0.99 from Amazon.

(In addition, the paperback will be on sale for only $12.99 for the rest of the week!)

This blog will be deleted when the sale ends!

Limited Time sale! Treasure off the Coast (eBook) is now available for only $0.99 from Amazon.

(In addition, the paperback will be on sale for only $12.99 for the rest of the week!)

This blog will be deleted when the sale ends!

Happy 110th Birthday National Park Service!!!

But what are we really celebrating? Let’s learn. But first, there are limited time sales for 2 of the Junior Rangers Investigative Club Novels in honor of National Park Week! So, if you are looking for a good way to celebrate some of the coolest places on Earth, check out the links in the article! Major savings on both the paperback and the eBook!!!

I recently had the opportunity to share my thoughts on “Digging up a Story,” at several local libraries!

And while I will reflect upon those presentations later. I wanted to share the main theme! Basically, that everyone has a story, and anyone can tell one. And one of the best ways to figure out a story is to learn more about the thing you are interested in.

For parents and educators of interested writers, Links to the presentation are provided, and there’s an example story in a previous blog!

This is a story about Discovery.

It’s also a story about a manchineel, and learning about one of the deadliest trees!

As our Nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I figured it would be fitting to celebrate a couple other anniversaries:

Those of the National Parks which represent some of the most awesome places we have preserved. Parks are supposed to be protected, and they are supposed to be promoted, so lets talk about some of the best things to do In Mammoth Cave National Park.

On June 28th 1980, Biscayne National Monument got bigger and became Biscayne National Park.

What Better what to celebrate that, and enjoy the summer, than enjoying the park? Here are 6 of my suggestions for things to do in Biscayne National Park.

All Activities are J.R.I.C. approved, and some take you along the same trails they take in the Treasure of Biscayne Bay!

Recently, I got to speak to some really cool groups about making some really cool stories.

In the recent S.O. 3431, 60 different media sources from Mammoth Cave were flagged for review. (Potentially for removal, editing, or censorship.)

Included in that list are a number of signs, brochures, and talks related to Mammoth Cave National Park’s history with different cave guides and their families who lived and worked in Mammoth Cave.

Perhaps, most notably on this list, are several signs related to the Bransford Family, who have a long legacy in Mammoth Cave. So, lets talk about some of the most interesting stories about Mammoth Cave’s history, why the government might have flagged them, and what we can do to prevent them from being removed or changed. (and why we should.)

In March of this year, a database of National Park signs, brochures, audio scripts and other media was released in a file titled: Flagged for Removal.

These appear to be the files submitted after Secretarial Order 3431 last year, and suggest that some very significant media might be set for removal or censorship. Articles have been published over some of the media in this database, (links to some provided.)

But I thought I’d go in a different direction. I wanted to show a bit of what is in the database, and have a bit more discussion about what it means. (and why the evidence shows that it is, at best, a very flawed process.)

On April 20th of 2026, I was finally able to explore a section of Mammoth Cave which I’ve been wanting to see for a while. There’s very limited, and limited time tour of Crystal Cave, discovered and developed by Floyd Collins, one of Mammoth Cave’s most famous explorers.

While Floyd is more famous for the singular most tragic aspect of his life, he’d probably have rather been known for his numerous, awesome, discoveries, like this cave. So read more about it, or simply check out the pictures, it was a great tour!

Spring is here! Time to feature several of my absolute favorite National Parks!

So, pack up the family, hit the road, and make certain you have your inter-planar radar set to adventure.

Here are 4 more of my all-time favorite national parks.

Happy New Year!

A lot it going on.

I have lots of plans.

But get outside, and check out some of the really cool national parks!