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What ever else you might say about pirates, I think we can all agree that they love to sing. With that in mind, I’ll be spending this week tweeting links to songs for and about pirates. Hopefully you folks will join in too. Just tweet a link to your favorite pirate song, ( Read more... )

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The fabulous Eugene Byrne has done an short essay for the Piracity crowdfunding campaign about Bristol’s connection to pirates. There really are quite a lot of them. You can read his essay here.

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Thanks to some conversations during Eurocon, the lovely people at The Future Fire have offered to run a virtual pirate party this coming weekend to help raise awareness for the Piracity crowdfunding campaign. Details are available here.

I’m going to be very busy towards the ( Read more... )

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I have posted a bunch of FAQs on the Piracity campaign page (go here, scroll to the bottom).

The most important stuff is about the size of the final book, and how the money will be used. As I say in the FAQ, the plan is for 18 stories of not more than 7,000 words. If ( Read more... )

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This is a bit of a shaggy dog story. Bear with me, please.

One of the big local news items in Bristol this month has been the story of Ray Webber who is publishing his first collection of poetry at the ripe old age of 93. (The book, High On Rust, is being published by my ( Read more... )

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Having made the paper edition of Shadow Histories of the River Kingdom available for pre-order, Amazon appears to have withdrawn it again. I’m assuming it will come back in a few days when it hits the publication date.

In the meantime they have put the Kindle edition up for ( Read more... )