Eric Picard lives in Newport, RI with his wife Erynn in a home called The Conservatory that was built as a Livery Stable in 1680. In a former life, Eric was a commercial boat captain, SCUBA diver, and Lighthouse Keeper. For 25 years he's worked as a technologist at companies he's started himself, and large companies like Microsoft, Pandora Music and Bark Box.

Eric blends his background as a historian and visual artist to write immersive, atmospheric fiction.

His newest novel, The Hazard Trade, is set in Newport, RI during the revolutionary war, and is Historical Fiction through the lens of a Historical Thriller focused on Espionage.

His debut novel, Legacy of the Bitterroots, is a dual-timeline saga set in Idaho’s wild Bitterroot Mountains. It blends meticulously researched historical fiction, with Native American and Celtic mythology.

His upcoming series, The Hazard Trade, is a Historical Thriller set during the American Revolution and documents one family's transformation from shopkeepers to spies during the British occupation of Newport, RI.

He is also the author of the urban fantasy novella Frost, and the nautical adventure short story, Sally Braid. When not writing, Eric walks for exercise, drives his boat, swims in the ocean, explores ghost towns, collects odd historical facts, and enjoys road trips across the United States.

Connect at ericpicard.com or on Goodreads.