World of the Written Word

***     THREE STARS Alcoholic food writer, Big cat. Haunted house. Ghost of a long-dead sea captain that is seriously sexy. Demons. Ghostbus...

  JUST PUBLISHED Storm Swept , the second in the Bacchante series. Harold Pcderson’s discovery ships are in trouble. Specializing in explori...

  Believe it or not, this is not a fungus.  Or an alien species.  It is a flower that lurks in the deepest rainforests of Luzon, in the Phil...

  When Helen Pederson enters the room at her estranged husband’s California estate, she expects to learn what hostess duties he needs her to...

  I was very interested today to receive a link to an item in the Guardian featuring the discovery of the wreck of a little 94-ton whaler. ...

  Well, we have all read the story of the giant whatever, that was dug out of a garden at a farm near Hamilton, in the North Island of New Z...

  From Stuff NZ A Greenpeace flotilla of at least seven boats has arrived at  Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov’s luxury resort  in Northla...

  I am particularly interested in conspiracy theories.  Back when I was researching and writing Rough Medicine , which was taken from the re...

Anti-vaccination poster from the late 1800s Historical Medicine Library, Phila. My blog post on the History of Vaccination proved so popula...