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.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Peter sings, but not always

NBC's Dec. 4, 2014, Peter Pan Live was the second in the network's present-day lineup of holiday live musical performances (the fi...

Thursday, December 4, 2014

In the wake of NBC's Peter Pan Live

Reading the live Tweets of Peter Pan Live has reminded me how many people haven't read J.M. Barrie's original Peter Pan . It's...

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Further travels (some of relevance to the book)

While my husband and I didn't make our trip to the Tower of London only to see the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation...

Friday, October 24, 2014

Following my characters through London

This blog has been on a brief hiatus while my husband and I visited the cities of London and Bristol for our fifteenth wedding anniversar...

Thursday, September 25, 2014

A little bird broken out of the egg

Somewhere between the boy hero of Disney studios and the dangerous, complicated lead of Brom's The Child Thief lies the real Peter Pan....

Friday, September 12, 2014

A boat festival and research too

To no one's surprise, I've discovered I love the wooden boat festivals of the Pacific Northwest. To find one in Port Townsend--one ...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

A scent of 1908

"Four hours of research for two lines of text" is my oft-repeated joke. And sometimes an evening spent doing research ends in a sc...

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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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