Titanic Sails Again, a manuscript for a novel

In 2013, mining billionaire Clive Palmer of Brisbane, Australia, proposed to build a replica of the Titanic and call it Titanic II. He said it would sail from Jiangsu in Eastern China to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. My manuscript is a work of fiction based on facts about the Titanic. It would be my fourth Titanic book, my fifth novel, and my 21st book.  

"Titanic Sailing Again" takes the reader on an exciting global journey spanning more than one hundred years between 1912 and the time Titanic II sails. I have chosen to write the novel as a collection of related short stories. The first part begins with the fictional survivor story of Anna Olson Whitmore. The second part begins with her rescuer Roberto Cosentino ’s letters from his deathbed to his wife and son. The reader will get to follow the adventures of the eldest son in each generation and learn why some family members feel compelled to sail on the new Titanic. In the third part, the Whitmore and Cosentino descendants meet on Titanic II and sail together on its maiden voyage. I have sprinkled Titanic facts about survivors and victims throughout the manuscript. (If you have read my Maiden of the Titanic and Hero of the Titanic, both published by the Midwest Writing Center, you know that my main characters are Roberto Cosentino and Anna Olson Whitmore.)   

The Whitmore boys are rich, carefree, and adventurous.   

Henry loves to fly and crash-lands a small plane in Canada.  

Bill loves sailing and travels to Europe on a passenger liner before working his way on smaller ships to Sweden, where he connects with both his past and his future.   

William flies to England, Australia, and China, and encounters life-changing situations. 

Henrik Whitmore tours Europe and remains a lady’s man, single and available.   

 

The Cosentino boys have to work for a living. Through luck and pluck, they eventually become owners of a newspaper enterprise. 

Joshua serves as a war correspondent in London during World War II.

Ronald serves as a war correspondent in Saigon during the Vietnam War. On the day of his departure, he rescues a Vietnamese orphan and brings him to Boston.

Sean serves as a captain in the Afghanistan War and is killed in action.  

The two main characters are Bill Whitmore and Ronald Cosentino. The patriarch of his family, Bill Whitmore, sails on Titanic Princess with his wife and two grandsons, Henrik and Michael. Bill’s son, David, chief officer, brings his son Matthew. Ronald Cosentino sails with his wife and three daughters.

Henrik Whitmore romances Ronald’s daughter, Lynn. Bill’s other grandsons, Matthew and Michael, compete for Ronald’s daughter, Laurie. Ronald’s eldest daughter, Michelle, dates the First Officer, and Michelle’s friend Vicky, gets an unexpected chance to date Chief Officer David Whitmore. The possibilities abound.

The book has a thought-provoking ending about why Titanic sank.https://www.amazon.com/Lilly-Setterdahl/e/B001K8FWDG/