I will be on the RMS Queen Mary at Long Beach, California, greeting fans and friends, signing and selling a wide variety of my books, next Monday and Tuesday.

On Monday, December 8th, at 11:30 am, on that Art Deco ship, I’ll be giving a talk on “Sea Serpents and Cryptozoology.”

Here’s an updated clarification: I am speaking at a sold-out conference on the Queen Mary, but I can be visited at my table by anyone coming into the public lobby. Also, my talk is free and open to my guests and visitors from the public, as long as you know you cannot go to other talks at this conference or the TAPS/Ghost Hunters special events and tours of the ship. (Yes, I know Jason and Grant, they will be there, and I write a regular column on cryptozoology for TAPS Paramagazine.)

Intriguingly, the 1848 sighting of the above unknown Atlantic Ocean marine cryptid, as seen from the ship HMS Daedalus, does match, in appearance, the similar kind of Sea Serpents seen off California.