With my attentions focused on uni and exams, I've been suffering a bit of a writer's block lately. Tonight I'm taking a break from my studies and looking over my WIP folder, and I've found a couple of fics that were intended to be much longer but are semi publishable in their current form.

This is one of them.

FANDOM: Man From Uncle/Napoleonic ( Read more... )

A few people on my flist have been talking about AOS non-fiction books and I thought I might join in the discussion and recommend a few that I have read, give the reasons why I think they should be read and maybe provide some excerpts from them. Hopefully this will encourage people in the AOS fandoms who don't know much about the historical context ( Read more... )

Okay, more than a passing thought. I was browsing facebook's Aubrey/Maturin group discussion page, where there was this guy asking for something to read as a kind of brief outline to the chronology of the French Revolutionary/Napoleonic wars.

And that got me thinking; it's actually true that those who are new to Hornblower or Aubrey/Maturin or any ( Read more... )

I was browsing online yesterday when I found this:

Navy Periodicals

An archive of the Navy Chronicals published between 1799 and 1818- except that the earliest Volume they have is volume 4, which begins around 1801. One was able to download in pdf and I look forward to going through them and reading accounts of naval action that will never make it to ( Read more... )