“Key West is beautifully captured in all its shallow, hedonistic glory." -- Kirkus Reviews

Hemingway reincarnate, Havana and hurricanes enliven this romantic island tale of love and redemption. Con Martens, once a bestselling author, finds himself down-and-out in Key West, where he encounters a miraculous emissary from Writers’ Heaven—a young Ernest Hemingway sent to get him back on track as a man and an artist.

In Con’s quest to recover his talent and integrity, we glimpse Key West life from the mangroves to the mansions and a dark Havana while spending quality time with Hemingway in his prime.

Rick Skwiot's earthy, funny and self-effacing chronicle of his heathen days south of the border. With little money and few prospects the troubled freelance writer takes off to Mexico to find himself. Instead he discovers fast-living, amoral, yet spiritually grounded Mexicans who infect him with a soulful lust for life.

Sexy, surreal, and darkly comic, this sultry memoir seduces any reader who values honest reporting of a spiritual journey in which the author finds his deliverance through the senses.

“Rick Skwiot works his own magic… As usual, Skwiot’s writing is sure…And his tale has a gritty, blue-collar cachet…This is good reading.” –Kansas City Star

The passionate mystery of a son’s compulsive search for his father’s bones—a quest that draws him into an exotic Mexican underworld of sex, mysticism, drugs, and sudden violence.

Sensual but gritty, vibrant but darkly poignant, Flesh exposes the simmering passions—fired by jealousy, vengeance, love, lust, and greed—when Anglo and Hispanic cultures clash.