Michael W. Smart's Blog, page 5
July 3, 2014
Cumberland Key to Nassau – Crossing the ferocious Gulf Stream
Dec 21st, 1981. – After a week of dockside preparations, stowing cargo, eight supermarket carts of groceries, rewiring the ship’s radio, compass, and interior lights, and waiting for favorable tides, we departed Cumberland Key, Florida.
Ship’s complement includes Joe, the skipper, who also home built our ship, the Dugong, a fifty five foot steel hulled gaff rigged schooner. Joe’s girlfriend Susan, listed as first mate; myself, listed as mate and engineer; my girlfriend Joni, listed as deckhand...
June 26, 2014
Logbook Tales – In the soup
Bright sunshine and a magnificent view disappeared as the twin engine Piper Seneca descended into the white blanket covering the eastern seaboard. The dense, widespread cloud cover had been generated by an approaching cold front, and the reported weather at my destination on Long Island was a six hundred foot ceiling and one mile visibility, above the landing minimums, which didn’t mean the actual weather matched the report, or might not change for the worse before my arrival. A dark grey coc...
IN THE SOUP
Bright sunshine and a magnificent view disappeared as the twin engine Piper Seneca descended into the white blanket covering the eastern seaboard. The dense, widespread cloud cover had been generated by an approaching cold front, and the reported weather at my destination on Long Island was a six hundred foot ceiling and one mile visibility, above the landing minimums, which didn’t mean the actual weather matched the report, or might not change for the worse before my arrival. A dark grey coc...
June 16, 2014
IT'S HERE
DEADEYE, BOOK #2 IN THE BEQUIA MYSTERIESMichael W. Smart
Release date: August 5th, 2014. Available now for preorder. Get a free copy of Dead Reckoning when you preorder now. See the bequiamysteries website for details. http://www.bequiamysteries.com/)
Police Superintendent Jolene Johanssen already has her hands full investigating a fatal motor vehicle accident involving a wealthy American businessman staying at a reclusive private island resort, when a second explosive case lands in her lap, the apparent suicide of a prominent Vincentian and advisor to the Government. The two cases lead her on a chase culminating in New York City, and a chilling discovery which threatens St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
June 6, 2014
Inaugural Post
Hi. Welcome to my author blog. I am Michael W. Smart, I write mystery and science fiction novels, and this is the inaugural post of my new blog. I do not consider myself an avid or prolific blogger, finding the task daunting and a bit uncomfortable. I prefer to spend my time reading and writing novels, rather than writing what might be perceived as self-aggrandizement. I do not expect to provide minute by minute or chapter by chapter chronicles of my writing or works in progress, though to be...
INAUGURAL POST
Hi. Welcome to my author blog. I am Michael W. Smart, I write mystery and science fiction novels, and this is the inaugural post of my new blog. I do not consider myself an avid or prolific blogger, finding the task daunting and a bit uncomfortable. I prefer to spend my time reading and writing novels, rather than writing what might be perceived as self-aggrandizement. I do not expect to provide minute by minute or chapter by chapter chronicles of my writing or works in progress, though to be...
