Daria Blackwell

Daria Blackwell is the co-author of two critically acclaimed non-fiction books Happy Hooking. The Art of Anchoring, Cruising the Wild Atlantic Way and Onyx The Cruising Kitty. She has written numerous articles for sailing magazines and websites on both sides of the Atlantic. She is a long-time sailor and USCG-licensed captain with three Atlantic crossings and a year’s sabbatical sailing in the Caribbean to her credit. In a former life she was a scientist, a science writer, an advertising copywriter, a strategic planner, and a top level executive in marketing and communications firms. She is the author of several publications on cultural competence. The Naked Truth is her debut novel, a murder mystery set in the midst of sailing adventures. A dual citizen of the US and Ireland, Daria has taken on a mid-Atlantic mind set. Follow her blogs at http://dariablackwell.blogspot.ie/ and http://aleriasadventures.blogspot.com/.