Sea Witch Chronicles, Voyage #6
Behind every great man is a woman, I've heard it said, and behind every good pirate is a witch. A good witch, I might add. Gallows Wake, number six in [...]
Behind every great man is a woman, I've heard it said, and behind every good pirate is a witch. A good witch, I might add. Gallows Wake, number six in [...]
The best road trips aren't planned, they just happen. Jack Kerouac's On the Road seems to just happen; he writes in an episodic, stream-of-consciousness burst of life. Kerouac is a [...]
As the author of the historical novel Star-Crossed, a title that plays on the practice of cross-dressing, I was asked by Ben Fox, founder of Shepherd.com to share my five [...]
Thanks to Lisa Goodwin, the Women who Sail New England and the Between the Lines Book Club for inviting me to your discussion of The Surgeon's Mate! As promised, here [...]
This evening I've been invited to join Lisa Goodwin and Women Who Sail New England who will be discussing Surgeon's Mate; the second novel in Patricia MacPherson's Nautical Adventures. Looking [...]
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
Spouses and lovers are more than muses. Sometimes they function as silent partners in the creation, freely allowing their mate the needed time and space to work. As silent partners [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
To visit Reykjavik's Maritime Museum you would think there were no seawomen in Iceland's history. (As of November, 2017, that is.) I first came across the mention of Icelandic female [...]