Enjoy these autographed books by local author, David Roper!

Watching for Mermaids, David Roper's collection of stories and essays, was a three-time Boston Globe Bestseller. His 2017 novel Rounding the Bend...The Life and Times of Big Red follows the life and redemption of a washed-up Mississippi River pilot and Vietnam vet. David's non-fiction work includes Getting the Job You Want Now! (Warner Books). He is a regular columnist for Points East Magazine and been featured in Cruising World, Lakeland Boating, Sail, Sailing, Reader's Digest, and The Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly. David was a three-time Best of Show fiction winner of the Marblehead Festival of Art Writers' World. His writing has been published in eighteen languages. He recently co-wrote the screenplay for Rounding the Bend, after it was optioned for a film. Among his youthful occupations was captaining a 135' Mississippi River paddlewheel cruise ship. Since 1982 he has run A- Script, a career advisory and resume writing firm in Marblehead, MA.

Watching for Mermaids - As a young boy, rounding a bend in a remote Maine cove, Dave Roper stumbled upon two mermaids. No one believed him then. No one believes him now. But he kept watching and wondering: what is imagined and what is real?

Rounding the Bend...The Life and Times of Big Red - What do heroes look like? Certainly not like Big Red, a washed-up 290 pound Vietnam vet and ex-Mississippi River towboat pilot haunted by his past. There's no 'S' on his huge chest, no cape on his back. He's certainly no hero. Or is he? The answer is in his notebook.