Most years I and the family attempt to send Christmas cards to family and friends.  For the past few years we've also created and sent our version of the dreaded "family newsletter."  Perhaps we are behind this year because of last month's windstorm and the eight days we were without power... hard to tell.

Anyway, I've decided that in place of ( Read more... )

I think I've posted this before, but it might be time for it again.  Anyway, it's something I wrote, looking at two of the most famous writers of Age of Sail/Naval Adventure.
Dave

On Comparing Forester and O’Brian            C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian are noted writers of Naval Adventure or Age of Sail fiction.  Both have created memorable ( Read more... )

Well it's been a couple of days since I posted pt. II of Mr. Townsend's Chronometer.  Here's the final part of it.
BTW, Island Enterprise is a near sister vessel of Island Expedtion, the biggest difference being one more gunport per side and thus carrying 18 guns instead of 16.

Mr. Townsend’s Chronometer, Pt III
By D. Andrew McChesney
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Hi,
Figure it's time to put up the second part of the Stone Island (Short) Sea Science Fiction Story.  Hope you like it!  Feel free to comment and let me know what you think.
Dave

Mr. Townsend’s Chronometer, Pt II
By D. Andrew McChesney           The jumps in longitude following each crossing grew larger as well, with all of them being greater ( Read more... )

I've been promoting the Stone Island Sea Stories as Age of Sail with a Science Fiction touch.  This short story leans more to the Science-Fiction side.  It was originally created as a submission for an anthology being put together by jpsorrow and pbray of Zombies Need Brains, LLC.  It didn't make the cut, and I've been wondering what to do with it.  I've  ( Read more... )

It's been a few days since I've posted any reviews of the Hornblower books, so I suppose it is about time I did so.  Here is my take on the first Hornblower book written and published.
Dave

Beat to Quarters/The Happy Return
By C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney            In the early nineteenth century, Captain Horatio Hornblower ( Read more... )

Next up for review as I post (re-post) those I wrote for the Hornblower books by C. S. Forester.
Dave

Hornblower during the Crisis
C. S. Forester
Reviewed by D. Andrew McChesney
            Spring 1805 and Hornblower has been promised his post-captaincy by Admiral William Cornwallis.  He turns over command of Hotspur and takes passage to England in ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a short excerpt from Beyond the Ocean's Edge:  A Stone Island Sea Story.  Today I'm posting a bit from the sequel, Sailing Dangerous Waters: Another Stone Island Sea Story.  This is from near the end of the book, from Chapter Nineteen of Twenty-Six.  And yet, this is one of the very first scenes I remember writing ( Read more... )

I wrote some Master and Commander fanfiction and thought people would like to read it.

Title: Rescue
Pairing/Characters: Stephen Maturin, female!Tom Pullings, Jack Aubrey, William Mowett, Peter Calamy, female!William Blakeney, Barrett Bonden; Pullings/Mowett
Rating: G
Fandom: Master and Commander, Star Wars
Word Count: 936
Spoilers: None, really
( Read more... )

Continuing my Bush Alphabet Soup series. Nine letters left!

Title: B is for Bracegirdle
Pairing/Characters: William Bush, Archie Kennedy, Horatio Hornblower, Bracegirdle; Bush/Côtard, Horatio/Archie
Rating: G
Fandom: Horatio Hornblower
Word Count: 351
Spoilers: For Mutiny, Retribution, Loyalty, and Duty.
Summary: Captain Bracegirdle seemed to be a ( Read more... )