Sea Voyages Gone Badly
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. [...]
Let’s make a book trailer!
https://youtu.be/Xgg6UxlaJ7s I don't know if video book trailers sell more books; I rather doubt it. The real value of making a book trailer is for the writer herself. The [...]
No trick-or-treat –it’s the night of the hungry ghosts
October 19, 2016: Here in the U.S. we're in full Halloween mode with last year's zombie get-ups and this year's creepy clown scare. In the American Southwest, Dia de Muertos [...]
Water Ghosts — the movie?
There are many ways to tell a story. Ever since I stood on board Intrepid Dragon II in Honolulu's Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor I've envisioned Water Ghosts, the movie. [...]
The power of Setting in fiction
I'm reading Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres -- a novel I chose partly because I enjoyed Corelli’s Mandolin and partly because the particular setting is one I know [...]
Water Ghosts — Read First Chapter here
Water Ghosts Copyright © Linda Collison 2015 Published by Old Salt Press, LLC ISBN: 9781943404001 LCCN: 2015941395 Publisher's Note: This is a work of fiction. Certain characters and [...]
Water Ghosts a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist
Foreword Reviews Finalist -- Water Ghosts Today, Old Salt Press is pleased to announce Water Ghosts has been recognized as a finalist in the 18th annual Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book [...]
Water Ghosts — the terror of the doldrums
dol-drums 1. a state of inactivity or stagnation, as in business or art 2. the doldrums, a. a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator [...]
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 [...]
Water Ghosts: Featured in Literary Fiction Book Reviews
"Linda Collison’s Young Adult novel, Water Ghosts, is the story of fifteen-year-old James McCafferty, whose parents have signed him up for an adventure-therapy cruise for teens on a traditional Chinese [...]