My Guadalcanal Diary – 2
Unspoken Word by lscollison Field Notes: Before you send in the troops you've got to know where you've got to know what lies ahead, the lay of the land [...]
Meet Seymour Hamilton: author, editor, adventurer
Meet Seymour Hamilton -- author of the Astreya Series, a nautical fantasy, The Laughing Princess, a charming collection of dragon tales, and The Hippies Who Meant It, a unique literary [...]
The Notorious Captain Hayes; a conversation with author Joan Druett
The American-born seafarer William "Bully" Hayes was a notorious celebrity in his own lifetime and in the century after his death became the antihero of numerous accounts, novels, secondhand memoirs [...]
Shining Light on our Ladies
I'm delighted for Patricia MacPherson, my 18th-century cross-dressing protagonist, to be among those fictional ladies in the spotlight this week, as part of Helen Hollick's October blog tour celebrating female [...]
Why make an audiobook?
How we Write; a series of guest posts about the art, craft, and business of writing Today my guest is Seymour Hamilton, author of [...]
The Madame of Covent Garden’s Gin Lane Salon
Catherine Curzon is the writer behind the personae Madame Gilflurt, whose online "salon" I attend on a frequent basis. Her blog, A Covent Garden Gilflurt's Guide to Life; Glorious Georgian [...]
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 [...]
How We Write: Seamus Beirne on his process of writing The Ice House
Seamus Beirne and I both have ties to Barbados. My novel Barbados Bound and Seamus's forthcoming novel The Ice House are both partially set in historical Barbados, when British plantation [...]
Seymour Hamilton on imagination and Astreya
“How does my imagination work ?” Unpredictably. I start with a place. But I can’t say “I’ll write a story set in Bermuda, or New York City or Mars.” It’s [...]
Writing on a Ranch in the Rockies; Antidotes to Isolation
Mary Kurtz is one of the Steamboat Writers, a group of essayists, fiction writers, academics, and poets who have been meeting weekly for more than twenty years to share their [...]