White Slave
White Slave is the working title of a new historical novel I'm working on.
In 1803, a young English blacksmith, John Jewitt, was the sole survivor on the trading ship Boston when the Nootka massacred the captain and crew. Jewitt was taken slave by the chief, Maquinna, and lived with the Nootka on Nootka Island, off the west coast of Vancouver Island, for more than two years.
White Slave is a fictional retelling of the Jewitt story.
It's an amazing adventure story, a love story, and a coming of age story. Jewitt learned the language, adopted native dress, fought in tribal wars, married a native woman and fathered a child. He published two journals after returning to Boston ... a short 60-page bare-bones daily journal and a longer narrative account written with help from a professional writer in New England.
American Woman
American Woman is another new project this year. It's a mashup of Strangers On A Train and Double Indemnity. A Toronto tech writer meets an American ex-cop from Florida during a Caribbean cruise holiday. They both need money and they both want their parents dead. It's a perfect scheme: he will kill her father, she will kill his mother. Complications ensue.
White Slave is the working title of a new historical novel I'm working on.
In 1803, a young English blacksmith, John Jewitt, was the sole survivor on the trading ship Boston when the Nootka massacred the captain and crew. Jewitt was taken slave by the chief, Maquinna, and lived with the Nootka on Nootka Island, off the west coast of Vancouver Island, for more than two years.
White Slave is a fictional retelling of the Jewitt story.
It's an amazing adventure story, a love story, and a coming of age story. Jewitt learned the language, adopted native dress, fought in tribal wars, married a native woman and fathered a child. He published two journals after returning to Boston ... a short 60-page bare-bones daily journal and a longer narrative account written with help from a professional writer in New England.
American Woman
American Woman is another new project this year. It's a mashup of Strangers On A Train and Double Indemnity. A Toronto tech writer meets an American ex-cop from Florida during a Caribbean cruise holiday. They both need money and they both want their parents dead. It's a perfect scheme: he will kill her father, she will kill his mother. Complications ensue.