Arrr! Grab yer cutlass and sing a chantey, it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Practice your grimace and your salty sea metaphors. Let Penguin Wrangler Allan and PCB lead you in the swashbuckle cheer!
Category: pirates
Cheese & Pirates
What do cheese and pirates have in common? Both are salty! Okay, maybe that’s not a very good joke. Sue me! I don’t know why cheese and pockets and pirates became so important to The Mangrove Legacy but as I go through the line edits for the new edition (yes, I know it was edited…
Out Now: Piracy!
Fox Spirit is delighted to announce the release of the first Fox Pocket Piracy. These are small but perfectly formed collections of stories by a den full of talented writers put together by Fox Spirit books for your enjoyment. The stories are flash fiction, giving the reader bite sized introductions to Fox Spirit and the…
Time Slips
A week without a blog post from me? In that time I have: graded all my courses traveled from upstate NY to Dundee had a lovely birthday I spent yesterday being pampered by my sweetie. He and Allan sang me awake with a present of series seven of Doctor Who which I had missed altogether,…
Tales of the Nun & Dragon OUT NOW!
Tales of the Nun & Dragon available now! And I couldn’t be happier! Features my medieval tale, “The Price” and a bunch of terrific writers. Adele says, “It’s launch day and a few sharp eyed folk noticed it went on sale on Amazon yesterday. Well, the book is now officially out there and here are…
Nun & Dragon — and Pirates!
I’m pleased to present: Nun & Dragon Press Release September 6, 2012 5:06 pm / from adele I am delighted to announce that the long anticipated first volume in the ‘Bushy Tales’ anthology series ‘Tales of the Nun and Dragon’ will be available as an ebook via Amazon from Monday 10th September and Wizards Tower…
BitchBuzz: Butterfly World Project
I’m heading off to Philadelphia for Authors After Dark with Kit Marlowe this morning; doubtless I’ll have stories to share from there. Hope to see Todd and Alex while I’m in town. My column today features a lovely place that I can’t wait to see first hand. I learned about it from the fabulous photographer…
Pirate Pub
What happens when a joke goes overboard on Twitter? You start a Tumblr page: Pirate Pub Photo July 25, 2011 Feel free to submit your requests to join the crew, including desired job title, or simply arrrrsk me a question about our floating pub. Be sure to add your suggestions for the world-wide pub crawl….
How Can I Resist?
Just heard today about a special production of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens this summer. Irresistible, of course. If all goes well (still waiting to hear on the Northampton conference) I should be able to be there to see it (assuming I can get tickets, I suppose). Well, that’s a lot of ifs, but I…
Arrrrrr ye ready, scalawags?
Talk like a pirate or be ready to walk the plank! All manner of bilge rats ar’ gettin’ into the spirit o’ the day:
K. A. Laity 