Join Us For “Hell Around the Horn” at NMHS Seminar Series, Nov 3rd

If you are in the neighborhood, consider joining us when I give a presentation about my novel, Hell Around the Horn, at the National Maritime Historical Society Seminar Series this Saturday at the Hendrick Hudson Free Library, 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, … Continue reading

Evening Gray Morning Red on gCaptain’s Best Nautical Books Of 2017 List

I am very pleased and grateful that my new novel, Evening Gray Morning Red, has been selected to be on gCaptain‘s list of the Best Nautical Books Of 2017.   About the novel: In Evening Gray Morning Red a young American … Continue reading

Nautical Blog Hop and A Week Of Windjammers – The Wave No One Believed

On Wednesday I raised the question – is history just a sea story? I found in researching my novel, Hell Around the Horn, that two memoirs written about the voyage of the British windjammer, British Isles, on which the novel … Continue reading

Beckoning Ice & Hell Around the Horn – Free Today and Tomorrow on Kindle

Joan Druett’s Beckoning Ice, the fifth in her series of Wiki Coffin nautical mysteries, is free today and tomorrow on Kindle. Joan’s detective, Wiki Coffin, is a half-Maori, half-Yankee “linguister,” who is also the representative of American law and order with the … Continue reading

Free Books from Old Salt Press – Hell Around the Horn, The Beckoning Ice and A Love of Adventure

To celebrate the upcoming publication of Joan Druett’s Promise of Gold trilogy, Old Salt Press will be running a free book promotion for Rick Spilman’s Hell Around the Horn, and Joan Druett’s The Beckoning Ice and A Love of Adventure over the … Continue reading

One Million Pageview Giveaway – Hell Around the Horn Free Today on Kindle, Enter to Win the Paperback

To continue our celebration of the Old Salt Blog passing one million pageviews, today, December 20, and tommorrow, December 21, we are giving away free copies of the Kindle edition of my new nautical thriller, Hell Around the Horn.  Click here to go … Continue reading

Old Salt Blog Milestone – More Than a Million Page Views ! Party Hats and Free Books!

We have reached a milestone here at the Old Salt Blog. We have passed a million pageviews! Specifically, according to Google Analytics, as of this morning, 541,358 unique visitors have viewed 1,052,167 pages on the blog. (The numbers are actually … Continue reading

Historical Novel Society Conference 2012 and Hell Around the Horn Available in Print

The Internet is an odd place. There are writers who I feel that I know well and consider to be friends, and yet that I have never met in person.  This evening, I will be leaving to attend the Historical Novel Society Conference … Continue reading