Treachery and Treason in Canada's Sealing Fleet    by Mel McIlveen
Price: $3.99 USD. 108650 words. Published by Chris Banner on March 9, 2010. .
This is an epic love story in a period when Vancouver Island was not part of British Columbia, not part of Canada and not part of the USA, though that was an option. The hardy residents fell under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company. This is a rivalry between two `sea dogs' played out on the sealing grounds of the Pacific North West.

The Second Mate's Cup of Tea    by Jamie McNabb
Price: Free! 7450 words. Published on November 13, 2011. .
(SHORT STORY: HISTORICAL) Queen Victoria's seventy-first birthday. An Englishman far from home and homesick. All he wanted was a cup of English tea. Served properly. On clean china. On clean table linen. In the small port of Garibaldi, Oregon, in the dining room of the town's finest hotel what he got was something annoyingly different.

Messing about in Boats    by Jamie McNabb
Price: $2.99 USD. 26340 words. Published on November 16, 2011. .
(SHORT STORY COLLECTION) Six rousing tales of derring-do and existential angst. Danger on the high seas, on the banks of a mythic river, and in a 19th century lumber port! Storms, collisions, abandonment, a fed-up ferryman, and Queen Victoria's birthday—they all mean terrible trouble for the denizens of this anthology.