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On
February 24th, I’ll be heading for Africa, to research my
upcoming novel, The Devil’s Waters. This will be
a contemporary swashbuckler set in the waters around the Horn
of Africa, plied by a significant fraction of the world’s
cargo shipping, and Somali pirates.
My research trip will take me from Malta, through Suez, south
along the Red Sea, then out into the Gulf of Aden, north to Dubai.
These are pirate waters. I will be on the cargo freighter CMA
CGM Wagner as a passenger. I’ll be taking notes for
the book, asking questions, imagining scenes and characters. After
that, I’ll spend a week in Djibouti, working with an elite
Air Force unit, the PJ’s (pararescue jumpers). They’ll
be the heroes of the novel.
And I will be Tweeting and blogging.
For The Devil’s Waters, I intend to record the
entire creation of the book, from my initial research and travel
all the way through completion. There will be daily updates of
my progress, bibliographies of source material, and once I start
writing in April, insights into the development of the pages themselves.
For those of you good folks who are fans and supporters of my
work, and for the aspiring writers in the crowd, I intend to make
this journey with you alongside as best I can. My hope is that
you’ll enjoy the experience, learn something, and tell others
you think might find this instructive or even fun. For me, I’ll
have the thrill (fingers crossed) and support of taking a community
of interested readers and writers along for what is always a daunting
challenge, the crafting of a novel.
You can find my updates on Twitter
and on Facebook at the new David
L. Robbins Fan Page.
This is all new for me, and exciting. I’ll try not to get
kidnapped along the way.
See you online. Thanks, and take care.
Best regards,
David R.
—Posted
2.8.10
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The
great tree on the site of the Los Banos internment camp.
Lecturing
at the Library of Virginia.
In the Australia
rain forest; I found a leech on my toe.
The
ravine outside the Los Banos camp, where the guerillas and 11th
Airborne waited for the rescue assault.
Embattled
barracks on Corregidor.
University of Santo Tomas, site of the largest internment camp
in the Philippines.
Inside MacArthur's suite at the Hotel Manila.
The Podium Foundation's logo.
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