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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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Writers’ Conferences — why I go.

By |September 1st, 2018|Categories: On writing, writers conferences, writing and publishing|Tags: , , , , , |

Some go for the inspiration. Some, to improve their craft. Some go in hopes of finding an agent who will get them a six-figure advance and a three-book deal while others go in sheer desperation, not really knowing why. Recently, I was one of many authors invited to speak at the 2018 Historical Novel Society Convention in Cumbernauld, Scotland. Old Salt Press authors Alaric Bond, Antoine Vanner and I were asked by author and conference co-organizer Margaret Skea to lead the breakout session, Getting it Right in Nautical Fiction.  The[...]

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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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