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3 days ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
If you are headed for Kingston, WA, this weekend, beware of buccaneers! The 3rd Annual Kingston Pirate Festival is on. Everybody is most welcome to dress the part, big and small, wenches and privateers – there will be a costume contest. Of course, some modern-day rules apply when it comes to making booty – you will have to pay for what treasures are offered at the booths.
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4 days ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author Trish Mastel Stricklin, a retired teacher and learning specialist, lives in rural Kitsap County, Washington State. She began writing when she retired in 2009. Her first book, What Lies in Truth, was published in 2022. She is a member of Kitsap Literary Artists and Writers and the Greater Gig Harbor Literary Society. Early in her writing career, she also belonged to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). You can visit her website.
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1 week ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author JB Harris lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts and writes for a living. She has been writing for as long as she can remember. She started her publishing career in the 90s with short fiction. Her first novel was published May 2023. JB has received the Sunny award for highest sales in her imprint, was Best Book Awards Finalist-American Book Awards 2024 and Firebird Book Award Winner, and got The Literary Titan Book Award.
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2 weeks ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author Mark Allen from Port Orchard, WA, a retired Navy Hospital Corpsman writes elevated horror novels. He wrote his first short story as a class assignment in fourth grade when he was ten years old. He got an A+ on it and has been writing ever since. He did some work in the movie business after he retired out of the Navy, and got a few screenplays sold and made into movies. Mark Allen’s first book, Nocturnal (a vampire in San Diego), was published in 2017.
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2 weeks ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
You may have heard of mosquito fleets in several areas on the globe. You most probably have of Washington State’s Mosquito Fleet of small steam vessels running across the waters of Puget Sound during the 19th century and early 20th century. One of the last of it is the Carlisle II, built in 1917 and nowadays operating as the back-up to the regular foot passenger ferry between Bremerton and Port Orchard since 1936.
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3 weeks ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author J.J. Wisdom from Gig Harbor, Washington State, is a former corporate executive in the heavy-duty trucking industry, where he focused on implementing and managing technology to support customers and businesses. Three years ago, he became a full-time writer of speculative fiction. G.A.I.A.: A World on the Brink in the Age of A.I. is his debut novel, published in January 2025.
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Are you ready to switch off your screens and ponder or discuss another writing/conversation prompt during dinner tonight? You want to know about my thoughts on it? Here’s my take:There have been these first days of spring that have been feeling like a messenger of an early summer. Near the seventies (or if you’re in a Celsius region, near the twenties). It’s when I start discarding house shoes in our home and, depending on how cozy I feel, either walk around in socks or even barefoot.
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
What struck my eyes first at The Cascade Mountain Men’s annual Muzzle Loading Arms Show at the Enumclaw Expo Center in March was that intricately beaded dress she wore. I have never seen such workmanship in such abundance and with such fine taste. I simply had to make sure: Did she make this dress herself? Indeed! And what did the red bar across her eyes mean? It’s a symbol for courage – and I understand that too well as a fellow creator exposing her art to the public.
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Author Kristin Gentile from Gig Harbor, WA, works also as a consultant specializing in process improvement. Her book debut is a children’s book titled Hazel the Hunter. She is a member of the Greater Gig Harbor Literary Society. When Kristin is not writing, she can be found camping, being on the water, reading, or being in the snow. Which genres do you cover? Kristin Gentile: Children’s booksWhich is the latest book you had published, and what is about?
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1 month ago | 
thesubtimes.com | Susanne Bacon
Today’s Germanism in the English language is used slightly differently from how Germans would do: Meister (pronounce: ‘mice-tah, i.e. master). First off, Meister derives from the antique Greek and Latin and simply means teacher, as in mastering a subject. Essentially, it describes somebody who has successfully finished the apprenticeship in a trade and been certified to teach others in this field.
