In Your Next Beach Read, we want to introduce you to a new author every day in June in the hopes that you’ll find the next book you want to take with you to the beach, the pool, or the comforts of air conditioning.

Today’s author is Wade Cox, author of Caribbean Danger.

What’s your name and where are you from?

My name is Wade Cox, that’s not a pen name, that’s the name I was born with. I was named after my great-grandfather on my dad’s side. I never met the man, he died 40 years before I was born, but I’m learning things about him, and apparently, we share a lot of traits.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

Well, the short answer is 20 years, but that’s not the whole truth. I started writing in high school (10 years earlier). I started…