Fritz Damler began his writing career in 1994 after completing a ten year circumnavigation on a 35 ft. classic wooden cutter. Plunge: Midlife with Snorkel, is co-authored with his wife Mari Anderson and details their first four years building a home on a remote Bahamian Island. Plunge won an award at the 2012 New York Book Festival. His widely acclaimed sailing memoir, Ten Years Behind the Mast, was published in 2008. He has also penned three mystery/thrillers, A Rug to Die For, Suvarov and Okavango with John S. Marr MD. Suvarov won first place for action/adventure at the 1996 Southwest Writers Conference. He has just released Thelma and the Whore of Babylon, a fantasy about two conflicting boat spirits sharing the same hull and how it affects a man’s voyage.