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 [...]
Barbados Bound, the audiobook
Barbados Bound, the audiobook, performed and produced by Ariana Fraval -- coming soon from Audible.com! I came aboard with the prostitutes the night before the ship set sail… [...]
Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series — Book 3
Rhode Island Rendezvous; Book 3 of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series "An insightful look at life at sea during the colonial era, this novel offers a combination of adventure, [...]
Pre-order Rhode Island Rendezvous
Rhode Island Rendezvous Newport Rhode Island: 1765 The Seven Years War is over but unrest in the American colonies is just heating up… Maintaining her disguise as a young man, [...]
Women on board
Transgenders serving on ships is nothing new. I’ve long been interested in women on ships in the Age of Sail -- particularly women posing as men, passing as men, doing [...]
Rhode Island on the horizon
Shipping News: Rhode Island Rendezvous, Book Three of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures, scheduled to arrive in port September 1, 2017. Newport Rhode Island: 1765 The Seven Years War is [...]
More Barbados Bound give-aways
Barbados Bound Amazon E-book Sweepstakes Congratulations to those who won trade paperback copies of Barbados Bound in our recent Amazon give-away; may you enjoy the voyage. Now we're offering ten [...]
Enter for a chance to win Barbados Bound
With Rhode Island Rendezvous, Book Three of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, on the horizon we're offering five copies of book one -- Barbados Bound -- as a give-away [...]
Weymouth’s First Maritime Literary Festival March 12-13 2016
I'm looking forward to attending England's first maritime literary festival and meeting up with many of my nautical writer friends and acquaintances, and hopefully making new ones. Organized by James [...]
Halloween book giveaway
Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1886, via Wikimedia Commons. Happy Halloween! It's that time in America when kids dressed as superheros and princesses in store-bought costumes come knocking [...]