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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]