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Lost to the sea. Book 2.: Letters of Marque Paperback – June 4, 2014

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James is now a captain in his own right, and bearing a 'Letter of Marque' signed by the Duke of Northumberland he sets out to rescue his old Captain and crew who he believes are being held captive by pirates on an island in the Azores. By offering shares in the spoils, he raises enough money to buy the prize brig Etoil and arm her with canon from the Dukes Castle at Alnwick. With Charles as his First Mate and Charles's cousin Rupert in command of 120 troopers from the Dukes Regiment of Borderers, he sets out to enrich his backers and enhance his own fortune by capturing the pirates treasure. Along the way, he becomes embroiled in the Royal Naval attack on the French port of Brest, and later, in the Government backed expedition to capture the West African Colony of Senegal.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (June 4, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1499316453
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1499316452
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.73 x 8 inches

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In 1955 at the age of 15 I went to sea as a midshipman and travelled the world, including some remote islands such as the Galapagos and Pitcairn's.

When I came ashore London was in the grip of the swinging 60's and I made my living as a singer/guitarist and met many of the people who went on to become household names such as Diz Disley & Stephan Grapelli, Billy Conelly and Gerry Rafferty, Paul Simon, Elton John Eric Clapton and Brian May, and many others.

My music agent got me an equity card and I did a lot of film and TV extra work. One day while working as an extra, the main actor grabbed me by the throat to throw me to the ground, but he put a 'choke hold' on me, unfortunately for him I was fully trained in unarmed combat and threw him over my shoulder. The Director was not best pleased, but the Stunt Co-ordinator asked me where I had learnt the move. When I told him, I joined his stunt team an worked on many shows like Moonstrike and Z cars, plus several films including 'The Thin Red Line', with Kerin Moore in Spain.

Most summers I headed for the coast and worked as a Life Guard on a beach or racing some rich mans yacht for about £7.50 a week.

One day I was asked to lay some mooring for the local boatyard. He paid me £400 and I realised that diving paid better than singing so in 1964 I became one of only 200 Officially Registered Commercial Divers working in the UK.

In 1966 the Offshore Oil Industry required divers and for the next 40 years I travelled the world, and dived up to 750 feet and did saturation dives that lasted over 43 days. During that time I worked and lived in 38 different countries as far apart as Borneo and Brazil, Norway and South Africa, most of the Middle East and the Carribean.

I began writing in 1974 during an exceptionally long 43 day saturation dive. Having read every book on the rig, I decided to write my own. It was in long hand, ran to 100,000 words and was a load of rubbish. When came a shore, a close friend Benita Brown suggested we both join the Katherine Cookson Northern Writers Group.

I had some early success selling 3 plays for TV and writing articles for local papers.

However divorce; the pressure of work, and the amount of travelling I was doing did not give me a lot of chance to seek publication though I continued to write for my own pleasure.

I retired to Majorca in 2010 and was asked to start a Creative Writer's Circle; the sheer enthusiasm of my members gave me the urge to look at some of my old work again.

Since then I have published twelve books with two more due out in 2018.

Writing has always been my way of relaxing; I find it so absorbing that everything else fades until I find myself totally immersed with my characters and their lives.

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Christopher Moss

It doesn't get any better than this!

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2016

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I am generally not an impulse buyer, except when it comes to gay historical novels. But one day recently I got a recommendation from Amazon.com for this book. I also hate gimmick-t writing books. I took a chance this would be one of them. But I bought it, and I'm glad I did.

Just now I am going through what some call the Dark Night of the Writer's Soul.. I had a stroke about two years ago and am having all kinds of problems keeping focused on writing my books. The stroke threw a monkey wrench into my writing career. It worsened my already bad eyesight. I was already legally blind from Stargardt's Disease. That robs you of your central vision, and you are born with it. Now I also have hemianopsia, a possibly temporary but not so far condition that removes half your vision in each eye, literally effectively the bottom half. All of a sudden any page of text I have in front of me is very hard to make out. That is odd, since after my stroke in 2014 I actually finished one novel and wrote another, a young adult novel. I don't know if something more happened, but the last set of edits I have been working on have been, to put it bluntly, hell.

And along with the editing hell I have lately been struggling with writing anything new. I have tried several short stories and one novel, and whether it's my concentration or my eyesight or a little of both, I am simply getting nowhere.

I was feeling like giving up, something that would have a terrible impact on my joie de vivre. I have been struggling with depression as it is.

But then I remembered my recent introduction to Monica Leonelle’s books. I have written about them, extolling their praises, so why am I not paying attention to myself. As I am fond of saying, one thing about people who talk to themselves at least they always know they have an intelligent audience. I had started talking about the "8 Minute" method... why not use it to save my sanity and life?

Monica Leonelle is one of those "you can't keep them down" sort of people. In her book she explains she had been going through a tough time, a divorce looming and all, when she decided to rethink her profession, using the Pomodoro method of short organized writing perilous to get it done. The Pomodoro she used was 25-minute sessions of writing, but it occurred to Leonelle to do 8-minute sessions. You start out doing these 8 minutes at your optimum writing times, usually first thing in the morning, then increase these sessions to more than one, the idea being you write more in those short sessions than you would have staring at the computer monitor and lamenting the lack of any writing.

I have started a short story about a mage and a cyborg, both gay and falling in love with each other, twice. I tried typing it and recording it with Dragon Naturally Speaking. Neither was in the least satisfying or even any good. I gave up after the second try... It could be this plot is way out of my chosen genre, but in any case I just can't get excited about it.

But Leonelle's method intrigues me. I started a different short story using the 8 minute sessions a couple three weeks ago when I got the edits for my YA novel and forgot all about it. But an abortive attempt does not imply an abortion. There is no reason I can't give Leonelle's method another try. After all, NaNoWriMo worked for me twice.

A bonus of this book is that it also steered me toward the Tiny Habits people, and I succeeded in drinking more water, flossing and remembering to shout "Excelsior!" in triumph from time to time in tribute to James Thurber. Just those three new habits are worth it.

So starting this weekend I plan to go back to reading the 8 minute book again, also Leonelle's WRITE BETTER FASTER, and reading her blog Prose on Fire and following her advice. I feel as if this really is the answer. Little bites, as they say, which should overcome my paralysis.

Thanks, Monica. The least I could do is write this review for Amazon about your books. I want to do as you have done, increase my output as a writer and to use self publishing to improve my sales. I have the beginnings of ideas how I can do that, having started out as an indie writer. Thanks to you and your inspiration, I am going to be an Igniters, your term, and just wait and see how this not only succeeds but heals me.

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Good sea story.

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2019

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Well written, weakly edited (lots of millennial spelling errors), well ebooked.
Suggested corrections:
ch 7: bows and on under should probably be bows on and under
ships hold should be ship's hold
settle thing should be settle things
ch 10: Rupert was should be Rupert had
hussars should be huzzahs or some such
Ch 15: reeking should be wrecking
ch 16: sea the watches should be sea watches
ch 17: carronade should be collonade or some such
ch 19: most of his should be most of her
ch 20: judged and advice should be judged and advised
ch 21: hast. should be haste.

Most of these should have been caught by the spell check that turns a document into an ebook. If no, you should let Amazon know.

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Robert D. Hathaway

If you like historical fiction you can find yourself enjoying the ride

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2016

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After having started with the first book in the series I found myself invested enough in the characters and story line to take the risk of purchasing the second book. However, it seemed that as the series continued the characters seemed to become more wooden and less interesting. I also began struggling with the more-frequent editing errors. If you like historical fiction you can find yourself enjoying the ride, but be prepared for enough issues with the writing to make reading a bit of a struggle at times.

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Gary J

Book two as good as book one.

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019

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Once I got used to the terms of the sailors I settled into an exciting tale of seafaring. I easily felt the movements of the ships and the efforts of the men who sailed them. If you like stories of an age gone by on the seas, you will enjoy this series.

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jdp

The book lives up to the promise of the first one in the series

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2020

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This second book of the series "Lost at Sea" lives up to the promise of the first in the series. Good characters, lots of activities as our hero works to save his company, rescue his previous captain, and win the fair lady. Stong support from a local Duke and his nephew puts him in a powerful warship and he is off to pursue a pirate, slaver, and all-around bad guy at his island lair. Still confusing terminology from petty officers but this is a minor quibble about a series that is quick and fun to read.

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High Seas Fan

Ties up many loose ends

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2020

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It is a continuation and finale of many plots from the first book. Lot's of excitement. About the right balance of land and sea

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Jerry Mercer

Entertaining Story

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2019

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It's ironic that author Johnson has written a book about errors in writing since the errors in this book were worse than the first book in the series. Misspelling, incorrectly added words, poor sentence structure, and bad punctuation abounds. It's all a great distraction and lacks professional aura!

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Kerwin L. Schaefer

Another excellent tale of maritime adventure.

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016

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Another well-told tale of maritime adventure in the days of sailing ships, but once again poorly formatted and badly punctuated. This book continues the saga of James Johnson, as he sets out to free some prisoners from pirates. Things get more complicated after that.

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anon

Lost to the Sea

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2021

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Young sailor with experience of fishing, naval battles and navigation is required to take a captured vessel back to England, while doing so a storm came down upon the vessel and it was three days before he was able reach the coast.
There is more but you will need to read the story of this capable young man, especially if you like sea stories.

Steve Button

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on January 9, 2015

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Another good tale. Would read another if available

Harry7

More spoilt than spoils

Reviewed in Australia on December 18, 2019

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A good story that gallops along at a ripping pace but is thoroughly spoilt by typos, poor grammar and misspelling. I had hoped this second book in the series would show improvement as the narrative is essentially a good one. I was disappointed. This author seems in need of a good editor.