The other day I finally, finally got round to unpacking all my books and putting them back into the book cases downstairs. At last the house is starting to feel like home again! Rediscovering books is always a great pleasure, especially when so many of them were gifts from dear friends. Even better, I was finally able to make use of the amazing ( Read more... )

Hello dear FList, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and Santa was good to you? Thank you all for the lovely cards and gifts you sent. Consider yourselves all soundly hugged ( Read more... )

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Back when nodbear and I wrote Eyes to See and Lord Exmouth's Commission, both fics were kind of based on the idea that Admiralty Artist John Thomas Serres must have sketched or painted some of the officers and men that he met when he sailed with the Indefatigable and the Inshore Squadron between 1799 and 1800. At the time, that was purely wishful ( Read more... )

Better late than never! As promised some time ago, here's a copy of the presentation that nodbear and I gave at the New Researchers in Maritime History Conference.


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This could almost be a story board for the scene in The Even Chance where the Indefatigable's boats pick up the survivors from Justinian and Horatio unwittingly kicks off the chain of events that leads to Archie's loss during the cutting out of the Papillion.


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A few weeks ago esteven pointed me towards The Sea Painter's World, a recent publication from maritime artist Geoff Hunt which includes this rather lovely picture of HMS Hotspur off Brest. What caught my eye wasn't the Hotspur herself though, but the promontory on her larboard quarter. That is Conguet Point or Le Conquet, with the ruins of the St Mathieu ( Read more... )

The broadband repair chap has done his job admirably and I am back afloat online :) So this seems like an appropriate point to share this gorgeous picture of the Bloody Indy which my clever partner found towards the end of last year.


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Title: Lord Exmouth's Commission: Remembrance, 1817
Author: Anteros
Characters: John Thomas Serres, Lord Exmouth, (Archie Kennedy).
Rating: R
Notes: John completes Lord Exmouth's commission.

( Remembrance, 1817 )

Title: Lord Exmouth's Commission: Royal Coburg Theatre, Lambeth, 1817
Author: Anteros
Characters: John Thomas Serres, Viscount Lord Exmouth, Horatio Hornblower, Barbara Wellesley.
Rating: R
Notes: John attempts one last business venture to save his family from ruin and a meeting with an old acquaintance results in an unexpected commission.

( Royal Coburg Theatre, Lambeth, 1817 )