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 [...]
Nautical Historical Fiction — Getting it Right
Nautical readers and historical fiction writers, I'm pleased to be in good company with Alaric Bond and Antoine Vanner presenting a breakout session at the Historical Novel Society Conference next [...]
Ariana Fraval is Patricia/Patrick MacPherson
Ariana Fraval is Patricia/Patrick MacPherson Announcing the release of the audiobook Barbados Bound Book 1 in the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures performed and produced by Ariana Fraval Available for download [...]
Charleston — an inspiration for Keogh’s historical fiction
How We Write: The importance of place and time in storytelling Sometimes I think I could live on the road. For me, travel is inspiring, invigorating, instructive, and necessary. Particular [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Beyond Research: Creating Verisimilitude in Historical Fiction
Here are a few of the slides from my power point outline, Beyond Research, shared at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer's spring Genre Con, May 14, at Table Mountain Inn [...]
Margaret Skea on writing the second book of a series
I met Margaret Skea at the 2012 Historical Novel Society Conference in London and have been following her debut historical novel, Turn of the Tide, with great interest. She's giving [...]
Character Motivation; Love-Driven Rage in the Bronze Age
Fiction writers: What motivates your protagonist? Hand of Fire tells the tale of Briseis, the captive woman Achilles and Agamemnon fought over in the Iliad. When Achilles, the half-immortal Greek [...]