Mamasquatch the Writer

Things I Like or Find Useful

Top 9 Napoleonic War Nautical Fiction Series

  • Aubrey/Maturin by Patrick O’Brian
  • Temerair by Naomi Novik
  • Sharpe (some of them take place on ships!) by Bernard Cornwell
  • Bolitho by Alexander Kent
  • Kydd by Julian Stockwin
  • Alan Lewrie by Dewey Lambdin
  • Ramage by Dudley Pope
  • Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
  • Hornblower by C.S. Forester

Media About Smallpox

  • Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich
  • Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1776 by Elizabeth A. Fenn
  • The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
  • BBC History One Podcast: The Feminist who waged war on Smallpox
  • Ben Franklin’s World Podcast: From Inoculation to Vaccination
  • The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Carrell
  • Smallpox, Inoculation, and The Revolutionary War. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/smallpox-inoculation-revolutionary-war.htm NPS

Craft Books

Steering The Craft: A 21st Century Guide to Sailing The Sea of Story, Ursula K. Le Guin

Take off Your Pants! Outline Your Books For Faster, Better Writing, Libbie Hawker

The Anatomy of Story, John Truby

The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell

Writing From the Senses, Laura Deutsch

Authors With Books on my “to-read” shelf*

Alice Munro, (Lives of Girls and Women, Dance of the Happy Shades, The View from Castle Rock, Open Secrets)

Joy Harjo ed. (When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through)

Stella Pope Duarte (If I Die in Juárez)

Arthur Herman (How the Scots Invented the Modern World)

Shea Ernshaw (A History of Wild Places)

Louise Erdrich (The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse)

Wayne Curtis (And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails)

*Note: My “to-read” shelf is generally fed by the monthly Friends of the Library Book Sale, thrift stores, and the used book selection at Odyssey Books in Port Angeles, Wa. It does not include my “to-read for research” shelf, much of which I wouldn’t recommend to anyone, or my “Hmmm that looks interesting” stacks which can be found around the house and get recycled back into the general bookshelf populous where they stand forgotten until I see them again, and say “Hmmm, that looks interesting…”