Indigo Press

Indigo Press was founded in 1999 with the publication of Six Mornings on Sanibel. Since then we have

08/19/2024

Vote Climate!
For the record, last year, 2023, is now officially the hottest year on planet earth since record keeping began in 1850. The warmest day on earth was July 22, 2024. Hurricane Ian, which hit Southwest Florida with the largest storm surge since 1873, resulted in $112 billion dollars in damage. While there are still people reading this that believe Climate Change is a hoax, or a cycle, or simply overblown, there is a very powerful group of people who disagree. They are called Actuaries and they work for the insurance industry.

Florida gets hit by approximately 40% of all hurricanes that land in the United States. With the mid-Atlantic experiencing the warmest ocean waters ever recorded and storm after storm stirring along hurricane alley you know these number-crunching accountants are paying attention. Large re-insurance firms, such as Munich-re or Lloyds of London that cover the losses of thousands of smaller insurance companies are raising their rates with every degree of warming. They are in the insurance business to make money and storms like Ian, Debbie and the next BIG ONE scare the hell out of them.

Which brings us to politics. While there are still plenty of climate change deniers out there in Congress or running for office they are not on your side. Florida already leads the nation in insurance costs with a projected average cost in 2024 of $11,759 annually. Several Florida insurers have already requested a 50% increase for 2025. If you vote for candidates who reject the very idea of climate change you are, in essence, voting for higher insurance premiums. Drill baby drill might mean your gas prices drop a few dollars in the short term, but don’t you think that paying $15-17,000 a year for your home insurance policies is a far bigger problem? That’s why you should make sure your candidate not only believes in climate change, but that they are willing to do something about it. Otherwise drop your coverage and risk everything you have in an overheated world. Good luck with that one.

06/24/2024

With hurricane season clearly upon us I thought I would remind those of you who might not be familiar with this title, "Way Under Contract - A Florida Story," and encourage you to give it a read. Set on a fictional island named Shoreside this novel is a classic black comedy with my typical twisted sense of humor. It's all about a Cat-5 hitting a barrier island with a huge storm surge and the resulting catastrophic results. It's completely out of print but can still be downloaded on your favorite e-book device. Ian, the real hurricane, was very, very similar to the fictional Emily in this riveting tale of the power of Mother Nature. The book won the Patrick Smith ("A Land Remembered") Award for the best work of Florida fiction the year it was published.

06/05/2024

After seven reprints and tens of thousands of copies sold, as well and more than a thousand e-books, "Six Mornings on Sanibel" is officially out of print. There might be a copy or two left at McIntosh Books on Sanibel but I'm not sure they have any remaining either. It has been a great run but at this juncture Indigo Press will not be printing an 8th edition. You can still download a copy on any e-reader out there or check a copy out at the Sanibel Library. Thank you all for your support of this title since it's first printing in 1999 and I appreciate all the incredible emails and letters I have received over the years as to how this little novel, set on the Sanibel fishing pier, has impacted peoples' lives. It's this that makes a writer know they've written a worthwhile tale.

04/22/2024

Happy Earth Day! As I've done several times over the past few years I'm posting some shots of sunset taken half way down Island Inn Road on Sanibel. Most, except for one, were taken near sunset and I love the ever changing angle of the sun as well as the endless and varied cloud formations beyond the five trees. Remember to "Vote Climate" this year as it now matters more than ever. Celebrate the infinite pallet of mother nature.

04/17/2024

There is a name for people who chase eclipsis: Umbraphile. Having seen the total eclipse in 2017, Molly and I tried our luck with the Texas eclipse of 4/8/24. Thinking the next one is 8/23/2044 there is a slight possibility I might not show up, we hopped in the Prius and headed West toward Uvalde and the Big Bend National Park in the very southwestern part of the state. Here are some captures from our journey. Spoiler alert...the eclipse was cloudy.

03/27/2024

First off a big thank you to all of you out there who helped to make both the 10:00 am and the 1:00 pm presentation at "Ding" Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge fill to capacity. I'm sorry about some of you who were turned away but I have one more presentation this "season." The event (Surviving the Storms - Hurricanes, Humans and Wildlife.) will take place on April 2nd, 2024 at the CROW Visitor Education Center, 3883 Sanibel Captiva Rd, Sanibel, FL 33957, at 4:00 pm. There is a small donation to CROW to attend the event. As is typical of my Eco-tainment lectures this one will be informative and slightly twisted. I hope to see some of you there! Please like and share away.

03/11/2024

For those of you interested I will be giving my PowerPoint presentation, "SURVIVING THE STORMS - Hurricanes, Humans & Wildlife," this coming Thursday (3/24/24) at the J.N. "Ding" Darling Interpretive Center (1 Wildlife Drive, Sanibel, FL 33957) this coming Thursday at 10:00 am and again at 1:00 pm. Both events are free and open to the public.. The only other available local presentation will be at CROW ( 3883 Sanibel Captiva Rd, Sanibel, FL 33957) on April 2, 2024 at 4:00 pm. There is a nominal donation to CROW to attend that event. To date the presentation has been very well received from Marco Island to Venice and I hope to see you there. Please share to get the word out.

02/26/2024

For this of you interested in knowing more about this fascinating PowerPoint presentation I thought you should know that I will be doing an interview with Mike Kiniry, host of the WGCU "Gulf Coast Life" series tomorrow, February 27th at 2:00 and 7:00 pm. We will be discussing my PowerPoint presentation "SURVIVING THE STORMS - Hurricanes, Humans & Wildlife." Mike always does an incredible job and you may want to tune in to hear it live. If you are interested in seeing the presentation first hand here are the four remaining opportunities for doing so in SW Florida:

March 6th, 2024, 6:30 PM for the Friends of the Pine Island Library at the Pine Island United Methodist Church, 5701 Pine Island Rd, Bokeelia, FL 33922

March 14th, 2024 for the "Ding" Darling Wildlife Society at both 10:00 am and 1:00 pm. At the J.N. "Ding" Darling Interpretive Center, 1 Wildlife Drive, Sanibel, FL 33957.

March 28th, 2024, 7:00 pm at Copperfish Books, 212 W Virginia Ave #112, Punta Gorda, FL 33950

April 2nd, 2024 at 4:00 pm at CROW (Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife), 3883 Sanibel Captiva Rd, Sanibel, FL 33957.

07/21/2021

The first edition of this novel was released in November of 1999. It is with some regret that the seventh printing has less than 200 copies left and Indigo Press has elected not to reprint the book. It will still be available as a download but if you are interested in getting one of these few remaining copies go to www.indigopress.net and order it there. I appreciate all the kind comments I've received about this book over the years and hope that it inspires others to make the changes they need to find a better life for themselves. If you have not yet read it, you should.

11/23/2020

Indigo Press is thrilled to finally have its website up and running! You can now purchase any of our titles online and the best news is that we have printed a second edition of the award-winning "The Living Gulf Coast - A Nature Guide to Southwest Florida" and you can purchase it online at www.indigopress.net. Six Mornings and all of the other titles are also available there. Currently new copies of "The Living Gulf Coast" are selling for $52.00 each on Amazon while we are selling a newer edition of the same book for $30.00 plus shipping. Order now for Christmas. It's a fabulous book if you want to get outside and enjoy the beautiful nature of Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Glades and Hendry Counties.

03/30/2020

For those of you with e-readers now is a good time to download one or more of my titles. I've written a brief description of each of them so you can preview what each book is about. Unlike most writers who are tied to commercial contracts and essentially rewrite the same book again and again and again I've chosen a different path. I love to jump genres and styles to write exactly what inspires me at the time. These five titles are available on Kindle, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Vearsa and Kobo. With this extended stay-cation, not of our choosing, these tales of life, love and loss might help take you away from the daily news cycle...which isn't all that fun in this prolonged pandemic shutdown.

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Living Sanibel - Out of Print!

Indigo Press has elected not to reprint both Living Sanibel and The Living Gulf Coast. We still have a few dozen copies of the books which we sell at events or through the internet. We would like to thank everyone who has supported these two titles, helping to sell more than 20,000 copies. If you are interested in purchasing a new copy while we still have some remaining just message us and we will get back to you with the cost, shipping details etc. As of now there are no plans to publish any other nature guides on the horizen.