My second finished Middle-Grade novel – think, slightly sub-Harry Potter – is a strange fantasy based on the American Midwest and Polish mythology. It’s called Harvey Stickman and I fear it might just be too strange a story to be publishable. I rarely share this side of my writing but I’ve just read this to Maggie and have begun, finally, sending it ’round to publishers. This being “Talk like a Pirate Day” and my book having a pirate scene in it – I couldn’t resist sharing. Hopefully one of my readers knows someone in the publishing industry? Here it is and it’s very brief (but loads of fun to write):<\/p>\n
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\u201cMister?\u201d the pirate cocked his head. \u201cNo-no! It\u2019s Capn\u2019, ain\u2019t that right, lads?\u201d<\/p>\n
The pirates agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaptain Tynes, at yer service!\u201d And he gave a low bow, sweeping his fork hand up above his head and across his body, in a grand gentlemanly motion. His men chuckled, fingering their weapons.<\/p>\n
Tynes waved the gun around casually, sweeping it around the deck. \u201cWe be the Lake Michigan Pirates and this be my ship, The Nitechka! And a fine ship she be, says I.\u201d He waved the gun barrel at his men, some of them ducked as it passed. \u201cThis be me crew!\u201d he smiled. \u201cA scurvier bunch of lake dogs never sailed between the Green Bay and Gary, Indiana, to be sure.\u201d He turned back to Stanley and Harvey. \u201cMurderers and cut-throats to a man they be, says I, but they does what I tells them to do, Har!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you two freaks be our prisoners!\u201d Tynes continued. \u201cSurrender and we\u2019ll ransom ye . . . if ye be worth anything, that is. Or maybe we\u2019ll enslave ye, if ye be good fer that. Or maybe,\u201d he added craftily, \u201cwe\u2019ll use ye as bait fer old Smok, the Lake Michigan dragon!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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