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Put-in-Bay author Bob Adamov releases Holden’s Promise

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Award-winning, island shiphouse with several of the locals including About the Author He won Writer of the Year (2010) in regional
Adamov was named as Best Lake Erie
author Bob Adamov Mike “Mad Dog” Adams,” Adamov added. Author in 2022 by Lake Erie Living magazine competition sponsored by the University of
Akron’s Wayne College and was the featured
releases his 19th The Story in Brief – Holden’s Promise and as one of Publish Ohio’s favorite author at the 2006 Ernest Hemingway
Put-in-Bay investigative reporter Emerson
authors in 2020.
Literary Festival in Key West. Adamov’s first
mystery adventure Moore visits Shallotte, North Carolina to relax novel, Rainbow’s End, was a 2003 runner-up
novel, Holden’s Promise with an old friend. Little did Moore as the top fiction novel in the Great Lakes
know that he would be pulled into the
(won by Pulitzer Prize winner, Middlesex.) His
intrigue surrounding a suspicious boat novels were rated 5 Stars by the Midwest
“A Facebook picture post of the Holden offshore the Flounder Pier restaurant in Book Review and several were named as
Seafood Company building on the Shallotte nearby idyllic Holden Beach. top novels in northeast Ohio by the Akron
River triggered an idea for a novel set in Mixed into the plot are the strange Beacon Journal. Additionally, Adamov’s
the Holden Beach area in North Carolina,” nightly explorations by a retired shrimp novels have won awards at the Hollywood
comments author Bob Adamov. “After trawler captain on the Shallotte River Book Festival, London Book Festival, New
several phone calls and online research, I near the Holden Seafood Company York Book Festival, the Indie Awards, Great
visited the area for additional research and plus his longstanding feud with another Midwest Book Festival and Florida Book
interviews. Everyone, including the Holden trawler captain. Toss in a couple Festival. Adamov has also presented at
Seafood Company owners and the crew unsolved murders, a little romance, a several of the Clive Cussler Collectors
of the shrimp trawler Capt. C.L. Holden, kidnapping and a sinking boat with two Society conventions.
warmly responded to my questions. Next teenagers and you have the ingredients for A Kent State University graduate,
was a visit with shipwreck hunter Ralph a compelling adventure. Adamov resides in Wooster, Ohio. He
Wilbanks who discovered the Hunley The family-oriented Holden Beach often can be seen in Put-in-Bay, Key
submarine in Charleston Harbor. The end community finds its peaceful island life West, Chincoteague Island, the Holden
result is a storyline that balances humor, upended by the perilous incidences occurring Beach area and the Cayman Islands
drama and romance while keeping readers between the Islands Art & Books in Ocean with his scuba diving, boating and
engaged and entertained.” Isle Beach and a Southport marina. The story treasure hunting friends. He had
“While most of the action takes place in is filled with several endearing characters worked for an Arlington, Virginia-
North Carolina, there’s a brief scene in the and their multi-faceted relationships with based defense contractor in the
opening on South Bass Island at a famed each other. intelligence sector. He is working on
his 20th novel, Alone at Home, which
will be released in the fall.
For more information or to have
Bob Adamov speak at your event,
visit www.BobAdamov.com, or
call 330-289-7616. Follow Adamov
on Facebook. MAB

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