All Roads Lead to Dockweiler

It's a momentous week as my first published book, All Roads Lead to Dockweiler: Devotions from the Ocean in the City of Angels, is now officially available for purchase! It's been such a journey seeing this come to fruition, mostly thanks to my friend and fellow writer, Peter, at High Dive Publishing.

Peter and I met in film school way back in 2008. We were roommates and both one of the few folks at our semester-long program who didn't know a single other person there. We quickly bonded and formed an unintentional trio with one of our other roommates Ian, often spending our free evenings watching the latest Oscar-worthy movies (during which I would often fall asleep) and eating Little Caesars pizzas with individual half-gallons of ice cream (because we were young and could do that back then). As the years progressed, we've written films together, shot videos and produced an award-winning post-apocalyptic comedy webseries along with Ian and a few other friends. He quickly became one of my favorite writers, and I always look forward to whatever screenplay or novel he's working on.

Just a few film nerds, trying to make it in Hollywood.

And so when I had a surf book that I had no idea where it belonged, that also included an accompanying album, I pitched it to Peter, doubtful he would even like it (him not being a surfer). It turns out I was wrong as he loved it, and thus started another creative partnership...

We launched the campaign, raised enough to progress the project and here we are at release!

This book has turned out better than I ever imagined. As I mentioned, I didn't really know where a part-memoir, part-surf instruction (mostly specific to Los Angeles, at that), part-devotional could even land, but Peter believed in it from the beginning and I have to say that, with his direction, it's become such a beautiful book that I am incredibly proud of.

The cover art is by Andy Bartleson, a friend and fellow musician from church who does excellent design and video work. The book design is by Megan Katsanevakis of Hue Creative (which happens to be based in my hometown) and just tied everything together in such a lovely way. I am so grateful for these folks, as well as all of my friends who are featured in the book, others who contributed to the album, and of course, everyone who donated to make it happen! It's such a thrill and a privilege to share this little piece of my life with whoever is willing to read it. I pray it's fun to read, informative and inspirational for all of you who take the plunge -- oh yeah, and I hope it makes you want to go surfing!

You can order the book below. Thanks for reading and thanks for going on this journey with me! More to come!! (And don't forget, every purchase gets a download of my full-length album, Golden Coast Summertime!)

(I know you're just going to buy it on Amazon, but it was fun to see some of the places it's available!)

YONDER BREAKS

All Roads Lead to Dockweiler - Out Now!!

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