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 [...]
Women Who Sail New England
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 [...]
Patricia MacPherson back aboard the Fireship
Patricia MacPherson's historical adventures are now available as a set, from Fireship Press. They're available in trade paperback and electronic format as well as audiobooks from Audible.com. The cover art [...]
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 [...]