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Sisters Under Sail in 2012

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:44:31-07:00January 8th, 2012|Categories: women sailors|Tags: Sisters Under Sail, teen sailors, women sailors|

It's that time of year when a young woman's heart[...]

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Jessica Watson’s True Spirit

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T11:29:27-07:00December 31st, 2011|Categories: women sailors|Tags: circumnavigation, Ella's Pink Lady, Jessica Watson, Sidney-Hobart Race, teen sailors|

True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who[...]

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Laura Dekker’s Christmas at Sea

By lindacollison|2011-12-25T18:35:30-07:00December 25th, 2011|Categories: women sailors|Tags: circumnavigators, Laura Dekker|

Tonight as I prepare our Christmas dinner on land I[...]

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Steven Maffeo’s Perfect Wreck

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:48:04-07:00December 19th, 2011|Categories: author interviews, history|Tags: Fireship Press, historical nautical fiction, Old Ironsides, Steven Maffeo, The Perfect Wreck, USS Constitution|

“On board Old Ironsides, it suddenly occurred to Lieutenant[...]

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Brave women on the battlefield

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T11:50:17-07:00December 15th, 2011|Categories: odds & ends|Tags: Army, Leigh Ann Hester, medic, Silver Star, Spc. Monica Lin Brown, women solldiers|

When I was an ER nurse we used to say[...]

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Joan Druett blogs about Surgeon’s Mate

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:50:35-07:00December 13th, 2011|Categories: women sailors, writing and publishing|Tags: historical nautical fiction, Joan Druett, Medicine at Sea, Nautical History, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Surgeon's Mate|

One of my favorite author/historians is Joan Druett, whose maritime[...]

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WORDS in every stocking

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T11:49:11-07:00December 11th, 2011|Categories: odds & ends|

As a child my favorite and most memorable Christmas gifts[...]

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Dead on the page

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:51:48-07:00December 5th, 2011|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: historical fiction, Historical Novel Society, writing process|

Using Fact and Fiction to Create Verisimilitude in Historical Fiction[...]

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In the wake of a man I admire

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T12:12:46-07:00November 29th, 2011|Categories: history|Tags: Captain Cook, HM Bark Endeavour|

I have visited the town he was born in and[...]

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Finding Mr. (or Ms.) Right

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:27:12-07:00November 25th, 2011|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: literary agents, Maui Writers Conference|

Finding an agent is like looking for Mr.[...]

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