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My Guadalcanal Diary – 2
Unspoken Word by lscollison Field Notes: Before you send in the troops you've got to know where you've got to know what lies ahead, the lay of the land [...]
My Guadalcanal Diary
Unspoken Word -- L.S. Collison This work-in-progress is inspired by the personal wartime service album of Harry M. Collison, Jr. - my father -- [...]
Best Bios about 18th & 19th century crossdressers
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 [...]
Books that guided and inspired Patricia MacPherson
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 [...]
Altitude is your friend
In 1981 I made my first skydive, a static line deployment at Skies West, a sport skydiving center in Loveland, Colorado. That experience radically changed my life in ways [...]
Trafalgar Chronicle
Beyond Lady Barbara; Women as Portrayed in British Naval Fiction by Linda Collison This is the unedited draft of an article that first appeared in the November 2020 issue of [...]
Pale Horse, Pale Rider revisited
1918 Many families, especially in the slums, had no adult well enough to prepare food and in some cases had no food at all because the breadwinner was sick or [...]
Fanny Palmer Austen, Navy Wife
Navy Wives Aboard British Warships A critique of Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister; The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen Jane Austen was a social realist in portraying everyday life [...]
Memoirs of Robert Hay
More fiction has been written about naval officers aboard British warships during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, I would guess, than any other single period in history. The protagonist is [...]
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 [...]