Jessica H. Stone

Jessica H. Stone AKA Jes Hart Stone enjoys putting words on paper and hulls in the water. She is a long-distance sailor and author of the best-seller, Doggy on Deck -- Life at Sea with a Salty Dog. Her articles and columns are popular with travelers and dreamers alike.

Her novel, The Last Outrageous Woman on Earth, won First Place in The Somerset Award for Women’s Literary Fiction, The Chanticleer Reviews – Best Book.

Blood on a Blue Moon - A Sheaffer Blue Mystery won the Black Magnolia 2019 Best Mystery Award and took First Place - Best in Caterory in the CIBA Awards.

Turbulent Waters - A Pacific Northwest Thriller is her debut thriller.

Jes and her Border collie, Kip McSnip – the Famous Sailing Dog, together they lived aboard her 41' sloop and sailed for sixteen years. They cruised the Caribbean, navigated Puget Sound traversed Canada’s waters, sailed the Mexican coast, wandered the Sea of Cortez, and crossed the Pacific Ocean. Kip celebrated his eighteenth birthday as they crossed the equator.

Sans her four-legged crew Jes has sailed the waters of Australia, New Zealand, and the Med. While serving as crew on a vessel from Panama to the Honduras, she experienced the terror of being chased by (real life) pirates.

On a recent backpacking trip to Cuba, she fell in love with the gentle people of that beautiful island. When not traveling or sailing, Jes writes in a charming little town by the sea. JessicaHStone.com