Dead Bones

Michael Miller loves to bird watch out his window in Big Sur, California.

But what he doesn't expect is to see something awful occurring in the cove...

About

Studied NYC History at Columbia; Business Admin. at Ole Miss

Duke Tate was born in 1980 in Jackson, Mississippi to Ken and Charme Tate.

He is married to the lovely Wiphawan Tate and the couple have two sons, Chirayu and Phiraphat, and a daughter named Isabella. The author of 41 books, his father and his memoir was released in 2020 and selected for The London Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year List

With locations spanning the coast of Florida, Thailand, Alabama, Hawaii, Rhode Island, New York and California, Duke is known for his nautical fiction. A seasoned fisherman, he learned the hobby early from his grandpa Wilbur in the country of North Mississippi where the two fished for bream and bass.

His senior year at Kent boarding school, he got deathly ill with Lyme Disease, while clearing trails for his mountain biking team. After a lengthy battle with the illness, he attended The University of Mississippi in 2004. In one way or another, he spent the next ten years traveling, studying and learning the craft of writing.

In his spare time he is passionate about nutrition and CrossFit. He likes to write about magical realism, life, spirituality, the ocean and health. With his amazing wife, Wiphawan Tate, their children and beagle dog Sugar, he divides his time between St. Augustine, Florida and Wang Thong, Thailand.

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Jericho Walker: Mississippi Lizard Slayer

In Duke Tate’s first-ever short story collection, join Jericho Walker on the adventure of a lifetime hunting green slime in the Mississippi outback or hunker down in a bunker loaded full of books with wordsmith Will Williamson or crisscross the country with a savage Bigfoot.

The choice is yours.

The adventure is not to be missed.

The Pearlmakers Trilogy

Book #4 from the series: The Pearlmakers

Frightened by vivid dreams of being a crew member on a Spanish galleon, La Gracia, which sank off the coast of a haunted, but charming oak lined town in Northeast Florida during the 17th century in a brutal hurricane, Teddy Dollarhide and his crew, The Pearlmakers, have been desperately searching the murky Atlantic waters around his home for the...

The Wordsmith

27-year-old Will Williamson lives alone.

Only he doesn’t live by himself in just any old place. He lives in South Fork, Indiana’s very own bunker community.

He’s not scared of the world ending. He just loves to read.

But all that is about to change when fate steps on his bunker front door one night.

And the terrifying event forces Will to face his...

Praise

He makes sure they know, though, that they are getting his creations and not necessarily something “authentic.” As Duke Tate writes in Alchemy, “Authenticity can be the kiss of death when trying to achieve a soulful habitat.”

– Nuvo Magazine

The Alchemy of Architecture by father/son duo Ken Tate and Duke Tate (Pearl) is a short quirky book about one American architect's struggle against the prevailing Modernist tide, as he seeks out meaning and "soul" in house design.

– Diana Darke, The London Times Literary Supplement

In Gifts from a Guide, there is an abundance of good advice to absorb. Life-affirming health tips for both body and soul and gathered in a handy book. Perfect as a reference book and equipped with a recommended reading list. After 105 easy-to-read pages in 20 chapters, I finished Gifts from a Guide very eager to try several of them. I warmly recommend this book, as well as the author's Return to Freedom: Breaking the Bonds of Chemical Sensitivities and Lyme Disease.

– Amazon Reader