Bob Morris writes:
After spending nearly 25 years as a newspaper reporter, columnist and magazine editor, I got the idea for Bahamarama while walking on a beach in the Bahamas. I went back to my cottage, wrote what became the first chapter, then returned home to Florida, quit my job, and started writing the rest of it. I had two sons in college at the time and not much in the way of backup funds. My wife, to her great and everlasting credit, did not leave me.
It took me about six months to finish the first draft of Bahamarama and another six months to find an agent, who sold it in a three-book deal to St. Martin’s within a week of signing me on. I haven’t had a “real job” since. Of course, I still don’t have much in the way of backup funds, but at least the boys are almost out of college and my wife, bless her, continues to stick around.
Bob Morris’ Bahamarama was an Edgar finalist for best first novel in 2004 and a BookSense pick. His second book, Jamaica Me Dead, comes out in October 2005. And he is punching away on the third in the Caribbean-based series, Cancun Kills.
