D E StockmanD. E. Stockman is an illustrator and award winning writer who was reared in a small town in the Midwest and now lives outside Chicago. After graduating college, he worked in various aspects of the graphic arts for imprints of Simon and Schuster, Harcurt Brace, and Pearson Education, and wrote articles for an e- zine and trade journals. In his spare time, he researched the history of a French frigate for over a decade. The ship's story is recounted along with fascinating fictional and historical characters in his tall-ship Tween Sea & Shore Series. His debut novel, The Ship's Carpenter, won two Page Turner Finalist 2020 Awards in international competition for both writing and ebooks. Read More Read Less