Whether you are publishing a book, running a retail store, or managing hundreds of employees in a manufacturing company, you have to do the same things to succeed.

In Maritime Master in an Age of Peril, Matthew and Ned, the ship’s carpenter, had a little time off from preparing their ship to go to sea.

At the end of Chapter One in Maritime Master in an Age of Peril, Matthew is pacing the deck, thinking about his mother’s description of the night of his birth.