There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

All writers steal from their own lives.

In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them.

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.