frank mosco

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       writer/photographer 

Coming soon! 

"Searching for Jimmy Buffett"

Great adventure, humor, & social satire merge in this hilarious upcoming novel by author Frank Mosco!

   Among the author's fondest memories of his resident beach bum days in old St. Augustine are those times when he sat with friends in the Trade Winds Lounge listening to the entertaining music and stories of two troubadours by the name of Gamble Rogers and Jimmy Buffett. Was there a better way to top off a day in the surf?

Singer story teller Gamble Rogers decided to forgo the trappings of national fame and stick around, becoming a local entertainment treasure and sadly, an eventual hero when he died while saving a drowning victim. As for that young man Jimmy Buffett, well we all know what happened to him.

"I guess you could say I'm one of the orginal Jimmy Buffett fan Parrotheads," says author Frank Mosco, referring to those early days.

Inspired by those memories and a dedicated fondness for Jimmy and his music, the author pulls out all the stops to create the novel Searching for Jimmy Buffett, a hilarious book of adventure and social commentary that, not unlike a great Buffett concert, is an experience that will have you smiling long after the book is closed.

Strap yourself in for

Bean & Fruitcake's incredible journey! 

Book Scenario - Sister Moonbeam-Goom-jigi, a hallucinatory, burned out, hippy flower child of the 60’s, wrongfully thinks her late in life son is the by-product of an imagined one night stand with Jimmy Buffett. Years later on her deathbed her final words inadvertently send her son, 14 year old James "Bean" Buffett Jr., on a quest to find his namesake famous father. And so the naive home schooled socially lacking young Bean and his scraggly little one eared psychic dog Fruitcake, embark on an incredible adventure in his mother’s car the Celstial Rocket, an oddly painted 1955 Nash Metropolitan convertable. From old St. Augustine, Florida, they head south to all points weird, leaving behind an estranged despicable uncle conspiring to steal the fortune the young boy doesn’t even know he has.

During their travels Bean and Fruitcake collect three colorful companions in the person of; Chi Chi, an illegal alien Cuban girl and resourceful fast thinking wannabe movie star who is pursued by agents of Fidel Castro, a homeless vagrant genious named Roachie who thinks he’s stupid because he lost a billion dollar high tech enterprise, and an ever strange but talented Boner Jones, a wayward exotic impersonator and paranoid schizophrenic conspiracy theorist.

Their quest and travels take them to a number of places where Bean and company encounter and have to deal with bizarre characters and situations that include; dangerous surf Nazis, killer Haitian drug runners, members of a Cuban underground, a Parrothead extremist cult, incompetent Mexican pirates, mysterious Bayou gypsies, extreme liberal California crackpots, and more; all the while being pursued by a hit man Catholic priest.

Searching for Jimmy Buffett is a hilarious politically incorrect book full of non-stop humor that increases your interest with each page. One book you surely don't want to pass up.

Look for it this Fall!

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Coming Soon!

The Quillquest Junior Books Release of

A Lighthouse Gang Adventure

"CANE'S GATE" 

   Once again novelist Frank Mosco returns to his favorite old city of St. Augustine, Florida, for the inspiration to create another great adventure tale that transports you through time from the 17th century to the 90s. Mixing a little actual history with a lot of fantasy has resulted in a fictional tale of mystery, action, and adventure that will please not only young readers but readers of all ages.

Book Scenario - In old St. Augustine, Florida, an ancient mystery is revealed when a young boy and his three friends (the Lighthouse Gang) find a magic medallion thousands of years old. The revelations of the medallion draw them into a mystery tied to the old St. Augustine lighthouse which leads to a dangerous subterranean adventure and search for a legendary treasure. During their journey they encounter strange creatures, unexplained mysteries, and eventually discover a thriving lost Mayan city and the long illusive Fountain of Youth. Calling on the aid of a beach bum genius, a 17th century pirate, and the medallion's incredible ancient magic, they endeavor to overcome forces and events to save themselves, the ancient Mayan city and its people from destruction.

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