Wendy Joseph vies with her characters for a life of romance
and adventure.
A deckhand on
merchant ships, she has outrun pirates off Somalia, steered ships large and
small through hurricanes and the Bering Sea, and helped rescue seals on the
Pacific coast.
Believing history must be lived, she has crewed the 18th
century square-rigger Lady Washington and
the WWII freighter SS Lane Victory. She
has shared her food with starving cats and Third World
workers.
An accomplished musician, Wendy has sung sea shanties, her
own songs, and with classical and medieval choirs.
Her passion is for works of the imagination, for telling a
really good story and for connecting with the minds and souls of readers and
taking them to a magnificent and finer place. . Researching The Witch’s Hand In France, she traced
the paths of her characters over the terrain they covered to get the
description right, and dug up old documents for historical accuracy.
Wendy Joseph holds two Master’s in English and can splice a
twelve strand line. Ashore, she holds court with her cats Jean Lafitte and
Bijou on the wild coast of Washington State.
The Witches Hand, soon
to be released by allthingsthatmatterpress
