Women Who Sail New England
This evening I've been invited to join Lisa Goodwin and Women Who Sail New England who will be discussing Surgeon's Mate; the second novel in Patricia MacPherson's Nautical Adventures. Looking [...]
Women on board
Transgenders serving on ships is nothing new. I’ve long been interested in women on ships in the Age of Sail -- particularly women posing as men, passing as men, doing [...]
Writing the next book
Writing the first book is hard. Writing the next book can be equally hard, and harder still to publish. Unless of course you're under contract to write a second book, [...]
Who wouldn’t sell a petticoat and go to sea?
A sailor takes her easeartwork by Eye Be Oderlesseye.mimifoxmorton.blogspot.com Women in breeches -- I got caught up in the masquerade back in 1999, while serving as a voyage crewmember [...]
Tooth trauma
As a novelist and a time traveler of sorts, I am enamored with the past. But as P.J. O’Rourke said, “When you think of the good old days think one [...]
Book cover redesign
What a difference a cover makes! This mock-up cover for Surgeon's Mate was created for me by Albert Roberts, who studied advertising design at Savannah College of Art and Design. I met Albert [...]
Roy and Lesley Adkins, John A. Lynn, Evelyn Berekman, et al.
I get by with a little help from my friends. Thanks to Alaric Bond who sent me a list of sources (Annotated Bibliography ) from a colleague in the National Maritime Society [...]
Elizabeth Felt, Linda Collison and Mr. Eaton
An interview feels a lot like looking in the mirror first thing in the morning. Ack! Let me brush my hair and put on some makeup! Frankly, it's a little [...]
Joan Druett blogs about Surgeon’s Mate
One of my favorite author/historians is Joan Druett, whose maritime history books are all on my shelves and were important to the background research for the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure [...]
Historical Novels Review: Surgeon’s Mate
surgeons mate From Historical Novels Review , issue 58; November 2011 My thanks to Eva Ulett for reading and reviewing Surgeon's Mate; book two of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure [...]