Suzanne Shaw is a life-long writer from the Pacific Northwest who has practiced law and was also trained as a journalist. Truthfully, she began writing historical fiction so she could spend as much time as possible in the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. She loves British history and literature, especially Jane Austen and fiction about the Age of Sail. Of Ships and Sealing Wax is her first novel. She was fortunate enough to research its background and settings in the Bodleian Library, the London Library, and in Cornwall.