Mark Arbour
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Bedding his officers? I think you’ll be surprised. BTW, the Royal Navy wasn’t all that concerned about smuggling. They were focused on privateers. HM Customs service chased smugglers. Lots of reading. 😃
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A good motto. 😃
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I’ll bet his watch cost way more than that
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I actually stumbled upon Austen because he actually served aboard Endymion around this time.
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August 5, 1801 The Admiralty Granger had made his way through his idolaters, raising his hat and thanking them for their attention. He certainly hoped lying to the public like that wasn’t a sin worthy of damnation, then pondered that if that was the case, hell would be overflowing with politicians. He strode confidently into the Admiralty and noticed that it was quite crowded today, so it was a relief that when he went up to the desk and signed in, he could write “by appointme
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August 5, 2004 Tribeca, NYC, NY JJ I stood in front of the mirror, admiring my outfit for tonight. Susannah and I were going to a fashion exhibit at an art gallery in Soho. It seemed like that was the ‘in’ place to have those things these days. I had on blue slacks and a blue jacket, both different shades, and underneath that I had a light-green and peach colored shirt. It was daring, as those color combinations sometimes didn’t work, but in this case they did. I was so proud
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You’re right about it being poorly written. 😃 Thanks for posting it, but I didn’t find it all that useful. It seems to me that it’s all about publishing hard copy content, which isn’t something I’d want to do anyway. That’s kind of an old model.
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Mark Arbour replied to methodwriter85's topic in Mark Arbour Fan Club's Topics
I finally found my model for Will. Tom Hardy 2002
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Mark is busy with the two series he has. 😃
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I always like the hard way. 😈
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Thanks for catching that! Fixed.
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August 2, 2004 Maui, HI Will “I like this place,” Travis said, smiling at me. “I never thought you’d take me to dinner at a place called Mama’s Fish House.” In my younger years I’d been adamantly averse to eating seafood, which is why he was giving me shit about it. I’d gotten a little better about it over the past few years. “They have non-fish food,” I said, gesturing at the steak in front of me. “It’s pretty good.” “I could see the waitress rolling her eyes at
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It is August of 2004, the month that the Olympics were held in Athens. Will Schluter will be there, then he'll start his freshman year at Harvard with his cousin Marie. It's a bittersweet event because the man he loves, Travis Buck, has to remain in Hollywood to work on his acting career, and they'll have to deal with being separated by thousands of miles. Meanwhile, Will's brother JJ is firmly established in New York City, trying to deal with the inevitable challenges life throws at him, while his father Brad will face a crisis that could ruin his marriage.
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Well that was clearly a mistake on my part. Wait, I went back and checked and it doesn't say that at all. 😀 The power of editing.
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Death is inevitable. It is only the time and the form that are variable.
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Yeah, I’m not seeing that. At this time, Lord Rosslyn was 68 years old with 4 years left to live.
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If George dies before Caroline, it would be up to William to provide her with additional income, and he does not like her.
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August 1, 1801 Northamptonshire, England The five horsemen cantered down the road at a brisk pace, using their speed to deflect any potential highwaymen or footpads, although there was no pace fast enough to satisfy George Granger, the 1st Earl of Brentwood. He galloped along, surrounded by the four footmen who had been detailed to escort him, heading to London with an urgency that the footmen assumed was brought on by an important matter of state. Granger had been enjoy
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The French Revolutionary War is finally coming to a conclusion, and after eight years of conflict, George Granger is going to have to adapt to a world at peace. While the conflict with France may be at an end, George has his own challenges to face. He has returned home to find himself richer, but estranged from his wife. His best friend and lover, Francis Calvert, has been wounded in the Caribbean and has not yet returned to England. Join George as he navigates this fraught era, which may be even more dangerous than when England at France were at war.
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That story is also in the works and should start publishing this month.
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Thanks to all of you for your comments. The next story is already in the works. It will be titled "The Freshmen" but will have multiple narrators. The minds we'll be looking into will be those of Will, Brad, and JJ. So far.
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That's because sometimes I forget details like updating the story. 😀
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May 3, 2004 Malibu, CA Will “I have a question for you,” I said to Jake. We were in the Escalade limo, heading up to see Travis’s mother and Big. He’d been gazing out the window, so my words had refocused his attention on me, Travis and my father. “Were the cameras and sound equipment operating in Curtis Buck’s office when you were there and when he was killed?” “No,” Jake said firmly. “I disabled the security systems.” “I guess that means Big doesn’t know you wer
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The insurance policy is in an ILIT (insurance trust). They're used to pay estate taxes. He would have gifted the money to pay the premiums to Taylor and Big, then those two would have re-directed those premiums to the life insurance policy. Then when Curtis dies, the death benefit goes to Taylor and Big tax-free. This is a common tool wealthy people use to pay estate taxes, because if they just bought a life insurance policy, the death benefit would make their estate even larger, and a bunch of that money would be taxed away.
