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Weymouth’s First Maritime Literary Festival March 12-13 2016

By admin|2016-01-10T14:46:13-07:00January 10th, 2016|Categories: nautical history, nautical writing, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, travel, what inspires me, women sailors, writing and publishing|Tags: historical nautical fiction, maritime fiction, maritime history, Weymouth Leviathan Maritime Literary Festival, writing conference, writing process|

I'm looking forward to attending England's first maritime literary festival[...]

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Water Ghosts — the terror of the doldrums

By lindacollison|2016-01-26T15:59:40-07:00December 7th, 2015|Categories: audiobooks, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing|Tags: adventures at sea, doldrums, ITCZ, nautical writing, sailing, story setting, subconscious, water as metaphor, Water Ghosts, writing process|

dol-drums 1. a state of inactivity or stagnation, as[...]

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Novel writing: Finishing the first draft

By lindacollison|2015-11-18T16:22:38-07:00November 18th, 2015|Categories: Uncategorized, writing and publishing|Tags: novel writing, writing process|

Welcome to the art of novel writing. How many of[...]

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How to Write A Novel

By lindacollison|2015-11-11T18:17:25-07:00November 11th, 2015|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: NaNoWriMo, teen writers, writers' workshop, writing process|

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Right now thousands[...]

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Drafting off NaNoWriMo

By lindacollison|2015-11-01T15:17:34-07:00November 1st, 2015|Categories: Looking for Redfeather, writing and publishing|Tags: fiction, NaNoWriMo|

Hats off to Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful[...]

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Halloween book giveaway

By lindacollison|2015-10-30T09:58:21-07:00October 30th, 2015|Categories: books, Looking for Redfeather, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing|Tags: book giveaway, Halloween|

Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1886, via Wikimedia Commons.[...]

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Shining Light on our Ladies

By lindacollison|2015-10-27T22:49:52-07:00October 26th, 2015|Categories: Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, women sailors, writing and publishing|Tags: #LightOnTheLadies, How we Write, nautical historical fiction, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series|

I'm delighted for Patricia MacPherson, my 18th-century cross-dressing protagonist, to[...]

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Water Ghosts: Featured in Literary Fiction Book Reviews

By lindacollison|2016-01-26T15:58:36-07:00October 23rd, 2015|Categories: audiobooks, Water Ghosts, YA|Tags: audiobooks, Literary Fiction Book Reviews, Ming Dynasty, nautical fiction, Water Ghosts, YA paranormal|

"Linda Collison’s Young Adult novel, Water Ghosts, is the story[...]

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Strong Female Protags Wearin’ the Pink

By lindacollison|2015-10-11T21:52:58-07:00October 11th, 2015|Categories: How We Write; a series of essays by guest authors, writing and publishing|Tags: strong female protagonists|

The days of the stereotypical helpless heroine of the romantic[...]

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Writing Prompts: A single sentence can keep you afloat

By lindacollison|2015-10-04T13:58:19-07:00October 4th, 2015|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: sentences, writer's block, writing prompts|

Message in a bottle: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! I'm a writer,[...]

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