T.R. Cotwell's Blog
January 30, 2025
New website
I'm excited to show off my new web-site. Its still a work in progress, but miles ahead of the original site.
https://www.trcotwell.com/
https://www.trcotwell.com/
November 21, 2024
An Ocean Life is now available on Kindle Unlimited
For a while, I had been waffling back and forth about releasing the novel under KDP Select, with the main issue being limiting my eBook reach internationally. Suffice it to say it is done, and it appears to be well received.
June 10, 2024
New reviews
Several reviews from Readers Favorite can be read here: https://readersfavorite.com/book-revi...
June 4, 2024
New review on Reedsy
A review on An Ocean Life has been released on Reedy's Discovery page: https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/an-...
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May 20, 2024
The Story Behind An Ocean Life
An Ocean Life started as a fable over five years ago. I was fascinated with Hawaiian legends which told the story of men spawned from sharks and the reincarnation of the dead as sharks. From this, the basic story evolved into something more grounded, less magical, but equally fantastic. The novel tells the story of a frustrated entrepreneur who takes his family to Hawaii as a way to reconcile with his wife and children. A frightening episode with an apex predator on a routine dive dramatically changes his life, leaving him adrift and almost alone in the Pacific Ocean. Almost alone.
In fiction, sharks are often depicted as menacing, mindless monsters. Something to be feared. I had a clear goal while writing this novel not to demonize sharks, or any ocean lifeform for that matter. Most of the ocean is still unknown to us, and within its mysteries there is something captivating about it, something that draws us.
It is a story about fate, love, rage, redemption, and to a large extent, our relationship with the oceans. I used a unique perspective to get my story across, along with my thirty years of diving experience. I have always loved the sea, so this novel is my homage to all creatures, great and small, that live in it.
In fiction, sharks are often depicted as menacing, mindless monsters. Something to be feared. I had a clear goal while writing this novel not to demonize sharks, or any ocean lifeform for that matter. Most of the ocean is still unknown to us, and within its mysteries there is something captivating about it, something that draws us.
It is a story about fate, love, rage, redemption, and to a large extent, our relationship with the oceans. I used a unique perspective to get my story across, along with my thirty years of diving experience. I have always loved the sea, so this novel is my homage to all creatures, great and small, that live in it.
