(As Anne Mayfield) The Wayward Widow (Regency novel), Jove (New York, NY), 1982. (As Kathleen Maxwell) Winter Masquerade (historical romance novel), Signet (New York, NY), 1984.
(As Kathleen Maxwell) The Devil's Heart (historical romance novel), Signet ( New York, NY), 1983. (As Les Simons) Gila! (science-fiction novel) Signet ( New York, NY), 1981. MEMBER: Science Fiction Writers of American, Sisters in Crime, Horror Writers Association (editor of newsletter, 2000–), Mystery Writers of America, Police Writers Club, International Women Writers Guild.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Nomination for Best Short Story, Bram Stoker Award, Horror Writers Association, 1990, for "Each Night, Each Year" Spur Award, and third-place award, both Western Writers of America, 1991, both for short fiction Porgie Award for Best Fantasy Silver Medal, West Coast Review of Books, for Shadoweyes Gold Medal, West Coast Review of Books, for Blood Autumn. Has worked as a political assistant, telephone solicitor for New Mexico Association of Retarded People, advertising layout artist, secretary for University of New Mexico Department of Speech and Hearing, and technical writer and editor for University of New Mexico computing center. Box 97, Newton, NJ 07680.ĬAREER: Writer, novelist, and editor. (with distinction), 1974.ĪDDRESSES: Home-P.O. Education: University of New Mexico, B.A.
I certainly didn't expect to encounter 19th century dildos in chapter 2, if that tells you something. Phlbrick's voice is engagingly entertaining, keeping the history lesson moving with great narrative skill. In the Heart of the Sea is thankfully a brisker but deeply informative look at the same era and industry, told well by Nathaniel Philbrick as he sorts pieces together the various accounts of the infamous Essex's voyage in 1820. In the Heart of the Sea is sort of the historical prequel to Moby Dick, an intimidating classic that I've circled like Pee-Wee Herman around the snake tank, knowing I SHOULD read it for its place in literary history, but terrified at the amount of likely dull whaling details I'm going to encounter. Chalk it up to having a passionate fifth grade teacher, but give me a biography of James Cook that details his brutal dismemberment or the horrors of scurvy as it knocked out his crew's teeth and yes, I'm fully there. Nonfiction is a bit of an uphill climb for me, but there's one particular history subject that I can always read about: exploration/nautical hell.
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