Hermosa author looks to ride ebook tide

Richard Blount typed away at the keyboard in his office overlooking the Pacific Ocean and knew where the protagonist of his first ebook would live: 1918 Strand, exactly where Blount has lived on and off for most of his life.That’s where the similarities end. Blount’s character, Sean Riley, is a 20-something skipper of an 82-foot Coast Guard patrol boat. In his novel, Black Water, Riley is tasked with chasing down an oil tanker taken over by terrorists off the Southern California coast.