About the author

Richard Guimond is an award-winning screenwriter and novelist whose work is deeply shaped by a life at sea. Beginning his fishing and writing careers at just thirteen, he went from a small skiff to commanding a fleet of 100-foot vessels trapping offshore lobsters on the virgin Continental Shelf. His decades of experience as a deep-sea fisherman and offshore captain have given him a wealth of knowledge, lending authenticity and vivid detail to his adventurous stories.

Guimond has won over 35 awards for his screenplays and fiction, many of which are inspired by the men and lives he encountered on the ocean. This unique perspective is on full display in Gatsby’s Rival, where the scrappy fisherman-turned-rumrunner Joseph “Foggy Joe” Bucolo and his loyal Swamp Yankee gang leap off the page with the grit, camaraderie, and daring of real-life seafarers.

Through his writing, Guimond brings readers into the high-stakes, perilous, and exhilarating world of the Prohibition-era seas, where courage, loyalty, and ambition collide with the untamed power of the ocean.