Naval Academy grads earn their keep as novelists

While it's not unusual for Naval Academy graduates to go on to become government leaders and captains of industry, a select few are following a much different drummer - they are working novelists.

And two of these dedicated storytellers have just published books.

Veteran suspense writer P.T. Deutermann, Class of 1963 and a retired Navy captain, has just published "The Cat Dancers," his 10th novel.

John Scanlan, Class of 1983, published "Dink-Gadink" this fall, a humorous novel that deals with the life of midshipmen at the academy. This is the second work of fiction the Hilton Head, S.C., resident has self-published since...