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Nurse Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club Series

Nurse Kit Carson’s Knife & Gun Club: The first five episodes published 2021 by Fiction House, Ltd.
Copyright 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 by Linda Collison. Published by Fiction House, Ltd.

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I write adventure.

Born in Baltimore, Linda Collison moved west as a young woman cobbling together a composite career that has included nursing, parenting, teaching skydiving, freelance writing, volunteer firefighting, and other occupations. Linda and her husband, Bob Russell (they met skydiving) wrote two guidebooks in the 1990s based on their travel adventures. The husband-and-wife team has sailed many blue water miles together, aboard their sloop Topaz, based in Hawaii. Their three-week sailing experience aboard the HM Bark Endeavour, a replica of Captain Cook’s 18th century ship, inspired Linda to write Star-Crossed, a nautical historical novel published by Knopf. The New York Public Library chose Star-Crossed as one of the Books for the Teen Age — 2007.

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Apertures; a memoir in essays by Mary B. Kurtz

By |March 2nd, 2023|Categories: author interviews, How We Write; a series of essays by guest authors, memoir, On writing, writing and publishing|

Memoir -- what is it? While autobiography is concerned with the names, dates, and milestones -- generally of celebrities, politicians, and other "historically significant" people --  it is through memoir we can explore our living in a deeper, more revealing way. Autobiography is about what we think matters to the rest of the world while memoir is about what matters to us -- yet memoir is at once personal and universal. At its heart, memoir might be the most revealing conversation between author and reader that can exist. An unspoken[...]

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I was born in a Baltimore suburb, practically on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, but I didn’t do any sailing or boating of any kind until I was in my forties, married to a man who had sailed Lake Michigan as a teen and who had never gotten enough of it. We were living in Hawaii then, and we bought an old sailboat with good bones (a Luders-36) and spent a couple of years fixing her up and shaking her down in preparation for a 2500-mile crossing to the Society Isles in the South Pacific. “Miles to Windward” is a memoir of the first leg of a two year cruise, and was first published as a feature article in Sailing Magazine; October 2001.

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