M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and apprenticed aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. He now serves with a fully rigged ship. His publications include over 1200 tanka poems in six languages and ten countries. He is also the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, a log he kept in verse form of several extended trips aboard a skipjack.
He brings his experience crewing on board wooden sailing vessels to a swashbuckling HNF series, Pirates of the Narrow Seas, set in the 18th century Royal Navy with a gay hero Lt. Peter Thorton and the corsair fleet of the Sallee Rovers.
AOS Naval Fiction |
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| Series: Pirates of the Narrow Seas | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| Man in the Crescent Moon | Young Isam learns the skills of navigation and leadership necessary to become the most notorious corsair of the age | |
| The Sea Leopard | Isam Rais is battling unfriendly allies as much as his enemies | |
| The Sallee Rovers | Thorton struggles to come out gay while surviving storms at sea, ship to ship battles, duels, kidnapping, and more. | |
| Men of Honor | Thorton and his lover set out to rescue a captive duke who is the pretender to the throne of Portugal. | |
| Iron Men | Thorton is temporarily in command of HM frigate Ajax but is badly outnumbered by the vengeful Spanish. | |
| Heart of Oak | Thorton's divided loyalties are tested as he becomes a pawn in the war for Portuguese independence | |
The author’s official web site is narrowseas.blogspot.com