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Nurse Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club Series

Nurse Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club: The first five episodes published 2021 by Fiction House, Ltd.
Copyright 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 by Linda Collison. Published by Fiction House, Ltd.

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I write adventure.

Born in Baltimore, Linda Collison moved west as a young woman cobbling together a composite career that has included nursing, parenting, teaching skydiving, freelance writing, volunteer firefighting, and other occupations. Linda and her husband, Bob Russell (they met skydiving) wrote two guidebooks in the 1990s based on their travel adventures. The husband-and-wife team has sailed many blue water miles together, aboard their sloop Topaz, based in Hawaii. Their three-week sailing experience aboard the HM Bark Endeavour, a replica of Captain Cook’s 18th century ship, inspired Linda to write Star-Crossed, a nautical historical novel published by Knopf. The New York Public Library chose Star-Crossed as one of the Books for the Teen Age — 2007.

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Wildfires in Paradise

By |August 16th, 2023|Categories: Islands, memoir|Tags: , , , |

Fire Memoir October, 1996 Just before dinner Bob and I were paged to respond to a fire on the slopes of Mauna Kea. Several ranches were threatened, along with a small subdivision, downwind. The winds were raging northeast trades and we knew we'd likely be gone most of the night. Bob threw our gear in the jeep, I filled water bottles, grabbed the first aid kit and we headed for Mana Road, about fifteen miles away. There, we'd meet the tanker, the brush truck, and the rest of the volunteers.[...]

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I was born in a Baltimore suburb, practically on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, but I didn’t do any sailing or boating of any kind until I was in my forties, married to a man who had sailed Lake Michigan as a teen and who had never gotten enough of it. We were living in Hawaii then, and we bought an old sailboat with good bones (a Luders-36) and spent a couple of years fixing her up and shaking her down in preparation for a 2500-mile crossing to the Society Isles in the South Pacific. “Miles to Windward” is a memoir of the first leg of a two year cruise, and was first published as a feature article in Sailing Magazine; October 2001.

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