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Catherine Thrush

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in Appleton, Wisconsin, The United States
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Catherine Thrush wrote and illustrated her first tween novel QUEST OF THE FAES (Pearl-Win Publishing 1985) at the age of eighteen. When QUEST was released she was majoring in Studio Art at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota – which meant she was lucky enough to spend summers at speaking engagements and book signings instead of flipping burgers at Mickey D's.

After graduating she moved to California and started her own glass art business, which she ran for nearly twenty years.

Catherine also took up fencing and fenced competitively for over a decade. The father of the main character in her current historical fiction novel, Maestro Thurio DiCesare is based on her own fencing maestro, John DeCesare.

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Catherine Thrush I got the idea for A New Look at Old Words while I was working on my historical fiction novel. I was looking for some authentic slang for my pirate cr…moreI got the idea for A New Look at Old Words while I was working on my historical fiction novel. I was looking for some authentic slang for my pirate crew and came across a dictionary of slang written in 1859. I thought it was perfect and ordered it. Then I realized that you needed to know the slang word in order to look it up. It was useless, until I started categorizing the words for my own use. Later on it occurred to me that this might be useful for other people too. So, viola. Here it is.(less)
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Pirate Word of the Day – Peery

From A New Look at Old Words originally found in the Dictionary of Nautical, University, Gypsy and Other Vulgar Tongues first published in 1859. Peery: suspicious, or inquisitive. (I suppose because you peer at or into things.)  Filed under: Slang from the 1700s Tagged: pundefinediundefinedrundefinedaundefinedtundefinedeundefinedsundefinednundefinedaundefineduundefinedtundefinediundefinedcundefine Read more of this blog post »
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