We sail on rum!

Welcome aboard the Pineapple Lightning Galley.

So today the Capt’uns have assigned us to write another blog post. And today the theme is ‘Why did ya blooming cockroaches rough up this blaaawg?’

We scratched our heads, sniffed our hats and shot the monkey. No answer! Then we peeled some taters, washed the decks and swung on some ropes. Nope, still no answer. Then we stole some rum from the Capt’uns’ personal stock....hick...don’t tell them. And we have our answer!

Because we are the authors sailing the charted and sailed waters of publishing. And we are trying to net one shark each, an agent as some dare call them! And we hope that these sharks will lead us to remote islands, possibly with treasure chests filled with ... well, let’s just call them publishers, eh?

Besides this selfish goal of populating the world with our mindless drivel written down in neat little scrolls and then thrown away in bottles, we also had...hic...a smaller unselfish motive- Spread the anarchy!

You shee...we mean see...no not the big body of water you baboons, see as in look! Sheesh, we drink the rum and you guys are drunk...hic. Too many blogs try to better the writer by providing them helpful advice, interview authors and agents with ramblings on their path to success. In short, they help us pirates so much, that we become honest sailors fishing for agents with a lure of a well written book.

Scuttle-fish we say! Where is the fun in taming the seas? The agents become weary of polished query letters and manuscripts. Nay, we must sow some chaos. We add fun and craziness in an all new drink. It’s better than rum. Wait, nothings better than rum!

Anyways, we intend to enlighten you fellow pirates by means of this blaaawg. To the perils of drudgery of editing and revising and the haunted paths of the successful publishing by taking you to the other side of the world where we examine the fun side of books and authors. No more mindless hacking of the poor adverbs and more of telling than showing!

What say you, mateys?

P.S.- If any of you tried making sense of the above, we’d suggest reading it after drinking the rum below.