Sharkano

SHARKANO is here!

A YA adventure / horror novel set in Hawaii, SHARKANO tells the story of Lexi Law and her summer spent with her father, Dr. Burke Law, a volcanologist. What she expects to be a tropical vacation at the beach is instead spent atop a dormant volcano. There, she sees what no one believes is possible.

A shark.

I never intended to write this as a novel. SHARKANO began as a screenplay several years ago. But after writing it, it became clear I knew much less about getting a movie made than I had about writing. So, SHARKANO gathered dust. I nearly forgot about it and moved on to other projects.

When the pandemic hit, severely disrupting my work as an attorney, it offered some time to concentrate on my writing. That's when my old, dusty screenplay came to mind. After rereading it, I realized the story worked as well for a novel as it did a screenplay. The only way I could make it work, though, was as a YA novel. Not long afterward, Solstice Publishing offered to pick it up, and now SHARKANO is a reality!

I hope you will enjoy reading it. It is intended to be fun and inspiring for teenage readers, but I put enough in there to keep adults interested, as well.

Let me know what you think if it!