Recent Adventures (!)

 Hello Friends,

Just a brief note to say I have now got a new website, johndavidmoreauthor.com Very pleased with it, tho it is still quite basic. It should go live today.

I have been recently unable to post because I spent November to March in hospital. Somehow caught a bug that infested my spinal cord. Six hours of surgery required so the Neurosurgeons could open my spine from bowsprit to gudgeon, dig out those encysted clumps of Staphylococcus, scrape away enough vertebral bone to make sure it was cleaned out, drive two pins in where the vertebrae were weakened. This was followed by a long recovery and rehab. Lost forty pounds (not all bad, haha) -- the photo above is before) but had to learn to walk, pee and poop again, and begin building back my strength. My hair suddenly became much thinner and finer, thanks to the trauma. Still getting Physio every other day and Nursing care at home but it seems as though I will make something close to a full recovery in the end. I count my blessings every day that I live in Canada, in Kingston, where there are two teaching hospitals affiliated with Queen's University Faculty of Medicine. The whole thing cost me not one thin dime. Amazing. The way it should be. RIP in heaven, Tommy Douglas. 

So, I am in the midst of republishing the first four historical novels in my Smithyman Saga, since my American publisher Fireship Press went belly up after the owner sadly passed away. Those four, The Eastern Door, The Lily and the Rose, Liberty's Children, and The King's Salt, should be available again this summer sometime. I am in final edits of a new history as well, titled Unforgiving Seas: Schooner Women on the Great Lakes. This includes fascinating unique stories of the iron women who crewed on the cargo schooners along Canada's South Coast during the Age of Sail, 1840-1934. I hope you will like these. Farther down the road, I have begun working on the fifth Smithyman Novel, with the working title, This Side of the Water. I am working with a marvelous Canadian firm based in Alberta, Raspberry Press. They make self-publishing easy-peasy and are very very reasonably priced. They care about the product. I highly recommend them.

Cheers, Dave