Writers who inspire me
Stretching Silver Through Blue Haze
Stretching Silver Through Blue Haze -- a marriage of poetry & visual art Stretching Silver through Blue Haze is a collection of 38 poems by Lawrence Gregory and 21 [...]
The Notorious Captain Hayes; a conversation with author Joan Druett
The American-born seafarer William "Bully" Hayes was a notorious celebrity in his own lifetime and in the century after his death became the antihero of numerous accounts, novels, secondhand memoirs [...]
Interview with anthropologist, author, filmmaker, and voyager Sam Low
Bob and I had the pleasure of meeting author Sam Low and his kinsman, navigator Nainoa Thomson at Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawaii, last June at a book talk [...]
Roy and Lesley Adkins on Jane Austen’s World
This is the summer for Jane Austen festivals; this, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice. I'd love to attend one of these celebratory functions where I imagine [...]
The Next BIG Thing!
I’ve been tagged twice for a round-robin blog called The Next Big Thing; once by Alaric Bond and once by Helen Hollick, authors I've had the pleasure to have met [...]
William C. Hammond; an interview
"Constellation is going into battle,” Truxtun went on. “Do not doubt it. She won’t be ready for sea by March as Mr. McHenry would have it, but by summer, yes. [...]
Interview with J.D.Davies
“Teach me the sea, Mister Farrell. Tell me the names of the ropes, and the ways to steer a course. Teach me of the sun and the stars, and the [...]
Elizabeth Felt, Linda Collison and Mr. Eaton
An interview feels a lot like looking in the mirror first thing in the morning. Ack! Let me brush my hair and put on some makeup! Frankly, it's a little [...]
Steven Maffeo’s Perfect Wreck
“On board Old Ironsides, it suddenly occurred to Lieutenant Parker that thus far this battle had not been, and was not going to be, a mere pounding match. It [...]
An interview with Marina Julia Neary
“Dublin is a grand place for an Ulsterman to get executed. Those not fortunate enough to have been born in the city of a thousand hurdles may seek consolation in [...]