Mar. 24th, 2007

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I'm working on my post for Monday's Reader Gab and watching the National Geographic channel. And suddenly I have an idea for a story...except I don't write. But the special on the Galapagos islands, especially this history of them, has me thinking what an excellent setting it would be for an historical romance. A pirate historical. The narrator was talking about how the Spaniards who landed there thought they were in hell because of the volcanoes and the salt water that appeared in the holes they dug; that for years the islands were considered bewitched because the currents were hard to navigate and the islands hard to find, and in the shifting mists it seemed as if the islands themselves moved. Now, wouldn't that be an amazing setting for a pirate romance?

Oh, or how about a shipwreck -- a whaler cast ashore? Well, maybe not, a little too close to Carla Kelly's Beau Crusoe.

Any authors out there writing anything Galapagos-set?

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