The author, LeCain W. Smith, learned early in life that his personal path to awakening was through ocean sailing, bodywork, and transformational energetic experiences. When living on the sea, making friends with the elements and with nature, he uncovered his passion for adventure, exploration, fitness, and health. He spent many years studying and experiencing bodywork and practicing yoga, qigong, breathwork, and meditation. This passion with alternative healing, history, and exploration of the world around us, eventually drove LeCain to reach out and help others through the writing of his books. If his endeavors improves the life of only one person, he will consider it a success.

Over the years, he completed a six-year circumnavigation of the globe on a sailboat he built, wrote two books on nautical themes, did yacht surveys, and, as a licensed sea captain for more than forty years, he delivered and chartered yachts, worked in various marine trades, and taught numerous maritime skills. His published works do include: Steel Away, A Guide to the World of Steel Sailboats (1986), Maritime History of Brooksville (2005), The Maine Directory of Complementary & Alternative Health Practitioners (2008), and a documentary video about the SouthPacific called Far Away (1999). “Captain Lee,” as friends around the world know him, returned from his adventures on the world’s oceans committed to diving into his inner ocean, that realm of innate wisdom he knew he could enter by making the body, breath, mind, emotions, and spirit his allies in discovery.

His heartfelt desire to help others find a relief from the ailments in their life, open their minds to alternative methods of care, and integrate the experience of true self-healing inspired him to gather all the information he had collected over years of researching holistic healing to publish - Our Inner Ocean, A World of Healing Modalities (2014). This reference book is a compendium of both ancient and new complementary holistic healing modalities of practitioner-applied bodywork and rejuvenating self-care practices that illuminate our human potential and ignite our innate capacity for healing and optimal well-being.

Most recently LeCain's desire to educate and inspire children with adventure stories that stimulate their imagination became the impetus for writing and publishing the three-part series: The Amazing Adventures of the Sea Cat Chowder. Starting with the book - Sailing South 'til the Butter Melts (2021), each book is full of humor, excitement, unexpected dangers, amazing encounters, and joyful moments based on true events that took place during the six-year voyage sailing around the world. All the events are told by the ship's cat Chowder, who provides her own unique perspective. The books - Far Away Islands of Paradise, and Westward Beyond the Horizon cover the remaining segments of the voyage and were released in 2022. Although this series of illustrated chapter books is intended for middle-grade and young adults, they are suitable for sailors and adults with the heart of a child. LeCain now resides in a small town on the "down-east" coast of Maine.