Hook's Waltz

History, art, and context discovered while researching the worlds of Peter Pan and J.M. Barrie Opinions on the above will also be encountered here.

Friday, April 18, 2014

Dressing the pirate lady

Vivian Drew wants her clothing post. Monday night, I heard a thump in the kitchen and looked to see if a cat had jumped on the counter, and ...

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Why they flew away

Adaptations of Peter Pan frequently invent reasons why Wendy feels she must fly away to Neverland with Peter and not grow up. In the 1953 ...

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Taking on Tiger Lily

With the casting of Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in the upcoming Pan movie (as if I didn't have enough issues with that already, starting ...

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Defending Mr. Smee

I didn't realize when I began writing The Stowaway that I would become protective of characters I had formerly not been overly concern...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Ten facts about Captain Hook

As promised! More Captain Hook in the blog this year. (Such a burden.) Some of these details were previously chronicled by J.M. Barrie, whil...

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Sports and letters

Not only did Mr. Barrie write his friends into Peter Pan as pirates who met terrible ends , he coerced them into playing on a cricket team...

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Friends in unexpected places

It's common enough for authors to write their friends and enemies into their works--Edgar Allan Poe wrote horrible fates for his critics...

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M.F. Webb

M.F. Webb: M.F. Webb fell in love with Captain Jas. Hook when she was four years old, and he still presumes upon the acquaintance. When she isn't writing his accurate biography, she works at a spay/neuter clinic, sings in a choir, and spends too much time at the dance fitness studio.

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