Shane Barker's Blog - Posts Tagged "scuba-diving"

I've just added a couple of new titles to my list: "Saucer Crash" and "Demon's Treasure." I am so jazzed to have them out in print! I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but I first came up with the idea for "Demon's Treasure" while I was coaching a youth football game. (Go figure!) It's been through a lot of revisions, but I had a total blast working on it and now that it's finished . . . well, shoot--I kind of miss hanging out with my characters. (You can find it on Amazon and--if you read it--please leave me a review!)

On the other hand, I'll have my new young-adult thriller ready in just a couple of weeks. It's called "Shredder" and it's about snowboarding. I'm so excited it actually keeps me awake at night!

I give a lot of talks, and one of my favorite bits is a comedy routine about scuba diving with sharks and manta rays. Even though my new book "Demon's Treasure" is a taut, young-adult thriller, a few jokes from my routine slipped in. The other day I received a post from a young reader who's heard me speak; he laughed out loud when he recognized the jokes in the book from my talk.

Here's an example:

. . . Nick also explained that sharks were known to bite into a person and then, not liking the taste, spit them back out again.

"So even if one does sink his teeth into you, it doesn't mean he'sgoing to finish the job."

"Yeah," Jansen replied, "but you'll still be full of holes."

Without missing a beat, Nick said, "But that'd be awesome!"

"What? Why?"

"Well, if that happened to me, I'd just plug my nose and blow real hard and the air would come whooshing out of all those little holes. Voila! Human Jacuzzi!"

Brother . . .