Astrodene's HNF Blog - Historic Naval Fiction

My HNF blog includes author interviews, subsequent edition releases, any other nautical literature news, etc.

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New title for S. Thomas Russell book

Details: Created on Friday, 04 January 2013; By David Hayes

The third book in S. Thomas Russell's Maritime adventures of Charles Hayden, A Ship of War, is due to be released in hardcover in the US on 16 May 2013 under a new title Take, Burn or Destroy.

The author is also published under his full name Sean Thomas Russell (and sometimes listed as just Sean Russell). As the UK version, A Ship of War, has been available in the US via online retailers for some time you are recommended to check before purchase.

No doubt this alternate title will also appear on UK online retailer sites in due course.

An Interview with Joan Druett

Details: Created on Tuesday, 04 December 2012; By David Hayes

Historic Naval Fiction is pleased to have obtained an Interview with Joan Druett whose new novel in the Wiki Coffin Mystery series, The Beckoning Ice, will be available on Amazon shortly.

What can you tell us about The Beckoning Ice, without spoiling the plot for readers?

In this, the fifth book in the Wiki Coffin mystery series, it is February 1839, and the ships of the United States Exploring Expedition are thrashing about dreaded Cape Horn, on their way to a rendezvous at Orange Harbor, Tierra del Fuego, on a crazy mission to be the first to find Antarctica. A sealing schooner hails the brig Swallow with a strange tale of a murdered corpse on an iceberg- surely an impossible case for Wiki Coffin to solve, especially as he is soon distracted by a violent killing on board. Threatened by vicious murderers himself, he is forced to voyage as far as the beckoning ice before the double case is concluded.

An alternate history for the early US Navy

Details: Created on Friday, 02 November 2012; By David Hayes

Lone Star Rising: The Voyage of the Wasp Assume that the American rebellion has failed, George Washington is dead and the few surviving revolutionaries, led by Andrew Jackson, have fled to the Spanish territory called Texas. There are still hopes for independance but how can they oppose the mighty forces of Spain? Then David Crockett meets John Paul Jones II and before long there is a Texas Navy in the form of a ship called the Wasp.

This is the background to a new alternative history naval fiction novel by Jason Vail, released for Kindle in August, Lone Star Rising: The Voyage of the Wasp.