Hook's Waltz

History, art, and context discovered while researching the world of Peter Pan for "The Stowaway." Opinions on the above will certainly also be encountered here.

Thursday, December 31, 2015

A blog's 2015 in review

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It's rather gratifying to see which five Hook's Waltz posts of 2015 were the most-read. By Trina Schart Hyman, 1980 Searchin...

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Tall ships and historical inaccuracies

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I welcomed a movie about life aboard a ship, dramatizing incidents I've been reading about this year, as an entertaning addition to my r...

Saturday, November 28, 2015

NaNoReMo and the Windward Isles

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No, I didn't mean NaNoWriMo. I don't work at that pace, I don't have anything new that I need outside incentive to start, and wo...

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Helping the Peter Pan Manga fly on

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Update 11/30/2015: The Kickstarter is funded! But there's another week to go and some stretch goals I'd love to see funded--in part...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Shot from a canon

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With another Peter Pan movie, of sorts, having hit the big screen and slid down it to die , I've been considering the idea of canon: eve...

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Defending Blackbeard

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Blackbeard the pirate has been a fixture in pop culture since he first appeared during what we now call the Golden Age of Piracy in the ear...

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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Talking like a pirate? Probably not

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When I first heard of Talk Like a Pirate Day ten years ago, I thought it was a cute enough idea. But that was before I started writing The ...

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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 is a petsitting chorister with voice acting aspirations.

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