June, 2018
The audio book for The Dangerous Legacy is here. Check it out.
March 18, 2018
My pirate novel, The Dangerous Legacy, will be turned into an audio book to be available on iTunes. Stay tuned for updates. It will take a couple of months for the publisher to get the audio book ready.
Jan. 1, 2018
A literary agency, Booker Albert Literary Agency, now represents a new book I have written titled, Tripp Unleashed. Stay tuned for more information on that book.
March 18, 2018
My second pirate book, The Deadly Waters, is due out in late 2018.
Bringing Pirates to Life through the Written Word:A Careful Mix of Creative License and Historical Authenticity
July 2016 – Column by Darren Simon
I’ll never forget the day I began what would ultimately become my young adult pirate fantasy: The Dangerous Legacy. It was a boiling summer day in California’s desert southwest, and I found myself missing the ocean. I was raised in Redondo Beach and when my professional life brought me to the desert, the only way to really survive the summers was to head to the coast whenever possible. During one particular summer, I, for whatever reason, hadn’t gotten to the beach. So I decided to write about the ocean. As I did, that got me thinking about a dare in my younger years in which a friend challenged me to jump from the pier. That dare and my love for the ocean—a love that in my young adult years led me to take sailing lessons on a Newport 28—guided me down the path of writing a pirate novel. Read more.
Books for Pirate Apprentices and Young Adults A Review
July 2016 – Review by Cindy Vallar
This exciting young adult fantasy plucks a boy from the present day back to the Age of Pirates. Actually, this Age of Pirates is mostly in an alternate reality where magical powers are wielded as weapons and other powers abound. The author uses excellent descriptions that provide vivid mental pictures of places and sights the protagonists experience throughout the story. The magical places in Simon’s alternate reality are both fascinating to behold and believable enough as you go on this adventure. Read more.
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