Andy Nunez

Born on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Andy graduated from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore with a degree in art, and has since developed a diverse set of interests that range from drawing comics, to military history, from board wargaming to treasure hunting, to devouring sci-fi, fantasy and horror novels. Married with a daughter and three stepsons, Andy retired from the State of Maryland after 30 years and is currently editor of the award-winning military simulation magazine Against the Odds (http://www.atomagazine.com/), where he also writes a continuing column on elite combat units.

Andy’s love of writing evolved from love of the sci-fi and pulp reprints he devoured as a child. His first professional publication was in the Shore Writers Sampler II, from Friendly Harbor Press. Since then he has written an array of pastiches based on the soap opera Dark Shadows and the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan. A number of pastiches can be found here http://www.erblist.com/fanfiction/index.html.

Andy has had articles and stories published in Lost Treasure, Western and Eastern Treasures, Grenadier, Chain of Command, Inside the Old House, and Tales from the Shadows. He also created the comic strip “Skipjack Pete”, which ran for several years in the Ocean City Maryland Daily Info. His first published book, Treasures of the Eastern Shore, was released in the summer of 2005. His next book, Mysteries of the Eastern Shore, came out in 2006. His first novel, The Crimson Need, a horror story set on the Eastern Shore, was released in 2007 and the final part of his Eastern Shore trilogy, Ghosts of the Eastern Shore came out in late 2008. Andy released a pictorial history of Wicomico County with noted writer and lecturer Gianni Hayes, author of 17 books in early 2008, under the Arcadia Images of America series and Salisbury, picturing the Crossroads of Delmarva (History Press). He followed up these books with Ghosts of the Eastern Shore II and III, Pirates of the Eastern Shore, The Wilderness and Spotsylvania 1864 (Osprey Campaign Series) and now a new action-packed sword and planet series The Twin Worlds Saga, the first book, Escape to Duolius was released in the summer of 2021.