Billy Ray unwrapped an Arturo Fuente cigar and clamped it between his teeth. He closed his eyes momentarily and enjoyed the strong tobacco, let it calm him. A small voice inside, barely audible, told him to hit the door and not look back; anyone with half a brain could see Cole Parker and Darian Tonelli had been up to some big-time games, dangerous games.

Billy Ray Dent has his hands full with Ms. Darian Tonelli. This girl is a firecracker... in every sense of the word. But will they have enough between them to stay one step ahead of crooked corporate executives and the Russian mafia who are all on a blood hunt for a stolen computer chip?

From the moment Cole Parker gets shot off the front of Billy Ray Dent’s bass boat it’s non-stop action that travels from East Texas, down a raging Alaskan river, and onto the streets of Manhattan. Baked Alaskan is a trip of a lifetime. Don’t miss it!

Why did I do it? And I'm not talking about that thing with the three sheep in Australia! It would be the most frequent question I get from both interested readers and interviewers. My stab at writing grew from a cocky comment I made while on a road trip with Tammy (my wife). I was deep into a Larry McMurtry novel, somewhere on the highway between D.C. and Dallas, when it hit me, "I could do this!"

Well, I can tell you there is an ocean of activity and work and learning curves (and two wonderful daughters) between that one cocky comment and my first published novel, Baked Alaskan. I can also tell you that if I
didn't thoroughly enjoy it—the writing (and the re-writing!)—I would have dropped it like a good habit long ago.

I mean, really, I love to fish, spend time outdoors, have had the good fortune to visit much of this earth, and now I get to write about the various adventures and all the people I've met? Sounds like fun to me.

Now, quite a few readers have commented on the non-typical (read: gritty) violence in the book. Who would have thought that way back when I was sweating through summers as a roughneck in the West Texas oil fields that the violence I witnessed would find a home on the pages of a novel I wrote? Or that all those trips (5) to Alaska in obsessive
pursuit of King Salmon and extreme adventure would set the stage for several books? Gratefully, I have been able to continue my wandering ways; most recently a jaunt to Eastern Europe (Budapest was my favorite spot).

Just this morning I was speaking to a reader about Baked Alaskan. Her parting comment to me was, "It took me places I've never been." It made me think that, yes, that's what I would like my writing to do, take a reader where they've never been.

-William Scarborough

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