Sea Voyages Gone Badly
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
China’s Mother Road
..."You see," says Li... "We want to live. Right now we are just shengcun. We are just surviving. We want to shenghuo. We want to live! You know? We want [...]
No trick-or-treat –it’s the night of the hungry ghosts
October 19, 2016: Here in the U.S. we're in full Halloween mode with last year's zombie get-ups and this year's creepy clown scare. In the American Southwest, Dia de Muertos [...]
Water Ghosts — the movie?
There are many ways to tell a story. Ever since I stood on board Intrepid Dragon II in Honolulu's Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor I've envisioned Water Ghosts, the movie. [...]
Water Ghosts — Read First Chapter here
Water Ghosts Copyright © Linda Collison 2015 Published by Old Salt Press, LLC ISBN: 9781943404001 LCCN: 2015941395 Publisher's Note: This is a work of fiction. Certain characters and [...]
Water Ghosts a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist
Foreword Reviews Finalist -- Water Ghosts Today, Old Salt Press is pleased to announce Water Ghosts has been recognized as a finalist in the 18th annual Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book [...]
Water Ghosts — the terror of the doldrums
dol-drums 1. a state of inactivity or stagnation, as in business or art 2. the doldrums, a. a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator [...]
Water Ghosts: Featured in Literary Fiction Book Reviews
"Linda Collison’s Young Adult novel, Water Ghosts, is the story of fifteen-year-old James McCafferty, whose parents have signed him up for an adventure-therapy cruise for teens on a traditional Chinese [...]
Water Ghosts
Chinese ghosts... I have an abiding fascination in the long history and culture of China. My mother had a lacquer tri-fold screen with small shelves on which she kept some [...]
Teenaged eunuchs
Water Ghosts took a long time to write, mostly because I got side-tracked with historical research, including Chinese maritime navigational techniques, Asian gods, goddesses, and ghosts -- and court eunuchs [...]