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Last Resort – will it sink or submerge?
At least it should be better than reality…TV that is. Lately, there haven’t been too many TV shows to come about that I’ve been really been excited to check out. I don’t think I can handle another reality show and all of their unscripted drama by a bunch of people I care nothing about. I like escapism in my entertainment choices. Great fictional plot lines with characters I can care about is more my taste. Now, when I saw the preview for the new show “Last Resort” I, of course, was...
read moreJoan Lunden Invades the Submarine Force/SEAL Teams!!!
The Joan Lunden Inspiration I had a reviewer dog my book because he didn’t understand the need to have a female reporter and her companion come aboard the submarine. I can’t give him too much grief about it. The fact is, I never thought the whole gimmick would be construed as hokey simply because it was rooted in fact. However, if I hadn’t been aboard the Key West when we sent Joan Lunden off with the Navy SEALs to do a simulated special op, I may have landed in the camp that perceived a book that had a female reporter on...
read moreVirtual Tour of My Submarine
Okay, here it is! Some of you who read my book but have never been on a submarine said it would help if I had a diagram of the boat in my book. Well I figured I would take it a step further and create a 3D sub that I could give you a tour in. This is the first video, where I give you the general layout. I have a few more coming where I will take you in more depth level by level, but this should be enough to give you a basic understanding. I hope you like it! As always I appreciate any feedback you have for me, and if you get a chance I would...
read moreHow Joining the Navy Saved My Life!
I wasn’t in mortal danger but… I was dangerously close to falling into a rut, which may have become my grave. I graduated high school the year Bill Clinton was elected president and, as in any election cycle, the media had the country convinced we were in an economic decline that we would never be able to climb out of. Come on, this is America; we turned it into an economic boom in just a few years. However, as an eighteen year old with A.D.D., college was definitely off my radar. So, without college, the talking heads were telling...
read moreAugust was great, but I’m no Hasselhoff!
First, I would like to say Thank You! A big thank you goes out to all those who found my book on kindle and decided to give it a chance. August was my best month to date. I sold over 500 copies of HOT RUN on the kindle and with the way September is starting out, I should go well beyond that this month! At the time I am writing this, HOT RUN is listed as #10 on Amazon’s top 100 list for the Kindle War/Fiction category. This has been amazing! It has inspired me to think my dream of being a full-time author may be inching closer. However,...
read moreHot Run – The Book Trailer
So, I have stayed up the last few nights working on this trailer for my book. I’m always up for a challenge, and I had to learn a little bit of Adobe After Effects to do this. I learned just enough to make this work. Of course, I have to thank my good friend Jon Pinto (http://jonpinto.com), who did the cover art for my book. I was able to take that work and use it in my video. ~ T. Steven...
read moreMy First Official Dive
This was a comment left by my friend from the boat Leonard Leslie. He was with me on my first official dive when I got back to the boat after dive school. The first part of the comment is a plug for my book, which I will shamelessly leave in. I thought I would highlight the second part so you could see just how awesome of a diver I was. “I just finished the book the night before last, I stayed up way past my bedtime two nights in a row to finish it. What a great read! It really brought back a lot of memories of serving on the Key West....
read moreSully Paints the Boat part Deux
France, rough start, but had a blast! So yes, France started a little rough, but overall I had a blast. After a frustrating day of trying to break the rules to get a fifteen minute paint job done, I finished, and at the insistence of my LPO Mark Leahy, I painted over the one foot by two foot letters swirled into the paint job which spelled out the word Sully. Mark told me I needed to paint over it again because he could still see it. I insisted that was only because it was still wet and he knew it was there. Once it dried, I assured him, it...
read moreSully Paints the Boat…Part 1
Looking forward to France… The morning we pulled into Toulon, France during our Mediterranean deployment (Med Run ’95) I was stoked. We had been cooped up, the evaporator was on the fritz (as usual), and everyone was just getting downright irritable. I didn’t have duty that day so I was ready to strap on my Rollerblades and go see France. Then, Petty Officer Schaubhut, who was the Deck Division “Officer” hollered out, “Sully, where do you think you’re going? You can’t go anywhere until the...
read moreThe one movie JJ wanted to watch…
Movies on the Boat Nowadays…man I sound like a geezer when I start off a sentence like that. In this current digital era…okay that doesn’t sound much better either but I’m afraid I’m gonna have to face it, I’m getting older. I’ll just say, back in the day, watching movies on the boat was always a big deal. That is, they were before everyone had laptops or phones that could play movies. You see, most things in the Navy were not decided by a democratic process, except for movie night. While we were out...
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