Women Aboard: Meriem Jo Ann Boussoauoar at the helm
Meet Meriem Jo Ann Boussouar -- novice sailor, boat owner, Gold Star mother, and grandmother. After my son, Sgt Kyle Thomas, was killed while serving in the military, I had [...]
Read ’em & weep: Sunday Night Knife & Gun Club
You are hereby requested to appear at the Watering Hole Saloon, Sunday night at 9:00 pm. Come alone and come armed. ~ High Plains Vigilantes for American Justice My stomach [...]
On the road to Taos
Some of the most helpful critiques I've ever received on my prose have been from a poet. This particular poet -- Lawrence Gregory. Lawrence has a real ear for voice [...]
Women Aboard!
Women have always been aboard ship. As passengers, girlfriends, and wives. As sailors, surgeons, nurses, helmsmen, and shipmasters. Women aboard — I got caught up in the history back in [...]
Writers’ Conferences — why I go.
Some go for the inspiration. Some, to improve their craft. Some go in hopes of finding an agent who will get them a six-figure advance and a three-book deal while [...]
Nautical Historical Fiction — Getting it Right
Nautical readers and historical fiction writers, I'm pleased to be in good company with Alaric Bond and Antoine Vanner presenting a breakout session at the Historical Novel Society Conference next [...]
Ariana Fraval is Patricia/Patrick MacPherson
Ariana Fraval is Patricia/Patrick MacPherson Announcing the release of the audiobook Barbados Bound Book 1 in the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures performed and produced by Ariana Fraval Available for download [...]
Charleston — an inspiration for Keogh’s historical fiction
How We Write: The importance of place and time in storytelling Sometimes I think I could live on the road. For me, travel is inspiring, invigorating, instructive, and necessary. Particular [...]
Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club
Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club: America's New Wild West A Kit Carson Knife & Gun Club story or My fictional dystopian memoirs Episide 2, Saturday Night Knife & [...]
Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club – serialized pulp fiction for the night shift
Kit Carson, RN, is a hard-working nurse in America's New Wild West. Kit Carson's Knife & Gun Club is a pastiche of a dime novel unfolding in connected short stories [...]