Why the solstice
The longest night is the only night a sailor cannot outrun. That is the whole book in one sentence, and it took me four years to find it. I started with a…
From the logbook
Notes on writing, artwork, and what gets handed down.
Drawing the cover, twice
The first engraving was clean and correct and completely dead. It had everything in it — the ship, the banner, the anchor, the lot. Technically fine. It just sat there. I pinned…
My grandfather's logbook
Forty-one years of weather, cargo and initials. No feelings anywhere in it. I have read it more times than any novel I own. Every entry is the same shape — date, wind,…
What traditional tattooing taught me about story
Bold lines, black shading, and no room to hide a bad idea. A traditional design has to read across a room, and it has to still read in forty years on skin…
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