Blimey. You came along, you amazing crazy friends of Sailor Twain. And here we are, a few years older, and almost four hundred pages later… As some of you have surmised lately, not all is to be...
Asheville, NC is a beautiful place. I’ve been meeting quite a few of you here. Here are iPhone snapshots of some drawings I made for Fellow Twainers here… The little travel watercolor kit...
Dear Fellow Twainers, I confess I feel a tinge of melancholy bringing our voyage to a close soon… Between the end of the online serial and the book’s release in October, I’m thinkin...
Hello! Have you played with the New York Public Library’s STEREOGRANIMATOR? It’s a wonderful way to explore their amazing collection of 19th century stereoscopic photographs—if you have 3...
Thank you so much for the flood of pre-orders for the Sailor Twain book—your support is much, much appreciated. I have no real way of tallying how we’ve done so far, but fingers crossed this we...
I love meeting you Fellow Twainers! There were a whole string of you throughout TCAF, including SpookieMeggie—aka Megan Kearny, very talented artist (see her work at theQuietly.com) who showed up wit...
Please note there is a short pause—on May 16th, we return for the conclusion of our little tale! Ship’s Notice: As of May 7th, 2012 PRE-ORDER SAILOR TWAIN from your choice bookseller, online or...
Sign up here to keep in touch with any Sailor Twain news. * REMEMBER: Monday, May 7th is Sailor Twain Pre-Order Day! As you know, we’ll be pausing after this chapter ending, and returning for t...
Ship’s notice: Thank you Warren for starting the Facebook group The Lorelei Historical Society—which you’re all invited to join of course! * And for a treat: The only known voice recordin...
Remember: don’t pre-order copies of this book! (yet) May 7th is Sailor Twain Pre-Order Day. * Lovely prescient comment from Anne M. last month: Headline: “Author Mark Siegel thanks loyal ...
Hello! A few ship’s notices… * There will be a short pause at the end of this final chapter, with a little week’s break before the epilogue. Would you believe we’ve come this ...
Hello! By 1887 there was a growing tide of influence between artists in Japan and in the West. Van Gogh and many of the great impressionists were absorbing elements of the Japanese esthetic, and in J...
*A REVISED SCENE* I made a whole bunch of small revisions and refinements throughout the story for the final version (now on press!)… There was one sequence which I was never settled with, and ...
Celebrating the non-pareil Nikola Tesla (1856-1943): Here’s the first of five segments from a gripping show from the History Channel—narrated and soundtracked in typical History Channel style——...
As Fellow Twainer Daniel Shippey eloquently put it in discussions on the previous page: “So the only one of the writers that could have actually been chronologically there is Emily but in many ...
Ah! Some returning cameos—-many of you have appeared before… And then some others, whom you may identify for other reasons… Panel 1: Jennifer B. in plumed hat, Megan K. in ship’s ma...
I’m a little stumped trying to match this page with an entry… There is a piece of music I used to ask for from my parents over and over, when I was three years old: Albinoni’s Adagi...
It sounds like an early October Manhattan Sunset Sail aboard the Clearwater would interest a number of you, far and near? Would you quietest ones be lured out of hiding, to join such a one-time event...
CAMEOS ON THIS PAGE! Meet your Fellow Twainers— PANEL TWO a) Ship’s maid on the left… Anyone recognize themselves here? I can’t find a note about whose this was, nor for that matter...
At some point I should really make a post about the natures of the two twains. Or not. (It would be about The Two Yous, not so much body vs. soul or corporeal vs ethereal, more like the electric and ...
The Tarrytown Lighthouse, photo by Mimo Khair (April 2, 2012) (Click to enlarge) This is in Sleepy Hollow not far from where I live, near the Tappan Zee bridge where the river yawns out nearly three ...
Ah! It’s been a while since any cameos! But you are around, enjoying I hope a pleasant journey aboard the Lorelei. While that lasts. Please ignore any official looking dueling doppelgangers on ...
So about that rifle Lafayette has trained on the river . . . I’m not much for firearms worship, but I confess when I came across these photos of an 1886 Winchester Takedown Rifle, custom crafte...
OLANA Little-Persia-on-Hudson Before we’re done I think most of us can become Lorelei-certified Hudson River guides, don’t you think? Though it’s odd pausing to explore the shore, g...
Came across this piece of fan art from Emma, aka XComicKittyX on DeviantArt. I like Sailor Twain with a kind of Betty Boop/Manga spin! Thanks, Emma! Just to be clear: if I say fan art I do mean art b...
Mon front est rouge encor du baiser de la Reine ; J’ai rêvé dans la Grotte où nage la sirène… —Gerard de Nerval, El Desdichado * My brow is still red with the kiss of the queen; I have dreamt in the ...
Two from Emily. I FELT A CLEAVING IN MY MIND by Emily Dickinson I felt a Cleaving in my Mind — As if my Brain had split — I tried to match it — Seam by Seam — But could not make it fit. The th...
IMPORTANT: DON’T PRE-ORDER SAILOR TWAIN … yet! It is appearing in various online stores now that it has its very own ISBN, but I’ve been asked to relay this message to you my friend...
Yes, Matthew, Chrissy, Miss Kitty and others Fellow Twainers knew what the cotton was for… Guess what: I turned in the whole book. This story, you know. It’s now in the hands of its crazy...
Dear Fellow Twainers, It’s a very odd experience at this stage of the story. In the finished book, I hope the pace from here on just thunders on—but serializing it gives a kind of slow motion i...
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