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Cheyenne Richards

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Born

The United States

Website

https://www.cheyennerichards.com

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Genre

Historical Fiction, Suspense, Memoir

Influences

Paula McLain, Hilary Mantel, Maggie O'Farrell, Kate Quinn, Diana Gabal ...more

Member Since

August 2013

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Cheyenne Richards is an award-winning historical fiction author who writes sweeping novels about the women who claimed the sea—drawn from true stories, deep waters, and the lives history nearly forgot. She lives and writes aboard her sailboat Pristine, currently working her way around the world.

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Cheyenne Richards's Blog: Letters from Cheyenne

Becalmed in the Bay of Biscay: When the Sea Rewrites Your Plans

“Is water coming out?”

“Yes.”

“Maybe check the raw water strainer?”

“Strainer’s clean. How could the exhaust temperature be too high?”

“I don’t know. Maybe the sensor’s going bad?”

Colin’s guess would prove correct—for all the good it did us. We were floating in the middle of the Bay of Biscay 300 miles from land, couldn’t run our motor, and despite having carefully logged and stored a total of 304 spa

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Cheyenne Richards wrote a new blog post Becalmed in the Bay of Biscay: When the Sea Rewrites Your Plans “Is water coming out?”“Yes.”“Maybe check the raw water strainer?”“Strainer’s clean. How could the exhaust temperature be too high?”“I don’t know. Mayb Read more of this blog post »
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Part mystery, part memoir. All incredible. I had a long list of to-dos when I decided to crack this book. Just the first few pages, I thought. Two days later, the to-do list is just as long because I couldn’t stop until the end—emails and food ignore ...more
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I loved this book from page one! Poppy is one of those characters that will stay with me forever, an 80-year old with an attitude you can't fail to love—and laugh at. The mystery is a treat. The humor is fall-off-your-chair funny. And this badass gan ...more
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