Ship For Brains: This Ain't No Galley Tour
The sequel to Cruise Confidential is called Ship for Brains (World Waters, 2011) and narrates the author's experiences as an art auctioneer working on cruise ships. While also a mild expose of the business of the cruise vacation, Ship For Brains primarily focuses on the unique characters who are attracted to the business of art auctioneering at sea. The burn-out rate of this unusual vocation is very high, and made all the more difficult by the tensions between ship's civilian and military hierarchies and a largely skeptical public.
Ship for Brains received critical acclaim as a comedy, including a nomination as ForeWord Magazine's Humor Book of the Year (2011). It was also a finalist in both the New York and New England Book Festivals. In 2011, Ship for Brains won the bronze at the London Book Festival, awarded January 14th, 2011 at the Grosvenor House at Hyde Park in London.
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