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...

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CALLING DR. JONES? Hello class, Dr. Jones here. I got a dating map Dad gave

Hello class, Dr. Jones here. I got a dating map Dad gave me that came from Atlantis. I don't follow maps to buried treasure, but I follow maps to love.

Unfortunately, the instructions are written in a language no one speaks, not even me.

Hieroglyph maps are like transcripts on food labels. If you want to make bacon, you don't need to read all the instructions to cook it, you just need to get the temperature and time right - the rest is common sense. Now, if you'll stop blowing spitballs at...

MORE Dating Advice from ROBERT MITCHUM Mitch here. Sit down at my table,

Mitch here. Sit down at my table, pour a glass of bubbly, straighten up your tie and listen while I tell you about the 32 dating rules. These rules have been hidden by wise men and passed around for years. I got them from

Charlie Chaplin (but he didn’t follow them). We think Buster Keaton started them, but no one really knows. Who the hell cares any way, that’s not going help you when you’re picking up a woman. Here it goes:

1. Compliment her name. Know about names. I got a book once at the...

BE AN ORIGINAL Luke here. Drag says I am an original and wanted me to give

Luke here. Drag says I am an original and wanted me to give you boys some dating tips. I don’t know what original means. I guess everyone is kind of an original in their own way. I just do what I want and try to laugh a little along the way. Here it goes boys:

1. Squint your eyes a lot like you’re looking at the sun.

2. Always keep the top three buttons of your shirt undone and have some dirt on it too.

3. Go to the barber often to keep the lines on your mane tight.

4. Have dirt on your pants.

5....

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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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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...

Big John’s Hair-Raising Misadventures: The Trilogy

Book #4 from the series: Big John

Join Big John Hoover for a wild and invigorating journey through the labyrinths of the mind in this trilogy written by Duke Tate.

This volume contains all three Big John novellas:

  1. Big John and the Fortune Teller
  2. Big John and the Island of Bones
  3. Big John and the Hitcher

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.”

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.

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.