Dolphin Drone: A Military Thriller
James Ottar GrundvigI also want to thank my literary agent, Greg Aunapu of Salkind Literary Agency, for his insights as freelance journalist and agent of the publishing industry and his knowledge of the US Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP) and its trained dolphins, which is quite impressive for anyone inside or outside the publishing world.
I would also like to thank the US Navy Marine Mammal Program, former NMMP spokesman Tom LaPuzza, one of the 1961 program’s founders Dr. Sam Ridgway, and since 2007 is the president of the board and paid director of MMSC, Robert C. Schoelkoph for their help and guidance on the training, feeding, and health care monitoring of the navy dolphins.
Finally, for writers who take up this “lonely profession”— from which the author is rarely ever alone—and who follow those who lit the beacons through the darkness to the dawn of a completed work, I am eternally grateful to the late literary agent Jack Scovil; the late writer, novelist and professor Richard Elman at Bennington Writers Workshop, who told me to “write with force”; and to my lifelong writing pal and creative “sounding board,” Reverend Sherry Blackman.