The story behind the story
Pale Horse, Pale Rider revisited
1918 Many families, especially in the slums, had no adult [...]
Fanny Palmer Austen, Navy Wife
Navy Wives Aboard British Warships A critique of Jane Austen’s [...]
Memoirs of Robert Hay
More fiction has been written about naval officers aboard British [...]
Charleston — an inspiration for Keogh’s historical fiction
How We Write: The importance of place and time in [...]
Herstory: Seawomen of Iceland
To visit Reykjavik's Maritime Museum you would think there were [...]
Iceland’s Immigrant Song
Iceland's original immigrant song may have been the poems composed [...]
Women on board
Transgenders serving on ships is nothing new. I’ve long been [...]
No trick-or-treat –it’s the night of the hungry ghosts
October 19, 2016: Here in the U.S. we're in full [...]
The Notorious Captain Hayes; a conversation with author Joan Druett
The American-born seafarer William "Bully" Hayes was a notorious celebrity [...]
Teenaged eunuchs
Water Ghosts took a long time to write, mostly because [...]