May 11, 2012

Excerpts from “Falcon’s Revenge”, a book in the Nathan Beauchamp pirate adventure series by St. Augustine author Joe O’Steen …Nate crossed the deck and stood gripping the aft rail, watching the ominous sky. The clouds darkened until they were as black as a marine’s boots. He noticed, where the sea and sky came together, the wind whipped the water...

May 7, 2012

  The piracy fan craze triggered by the success of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series will soon be exploited on cable and television. Michael Bay, the visually grandiloquent director of “Pearl Harbor” and the “Transformers” movies, is to produce the neatly titled “Black Sails,” an eight-part prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s...

Apr 9, 2012

  ST.  AUGUSTINE, Fla. (April 2, 2012) — The tale of the H.M.S. Bounty is perhaps one of the most infamous tales of mutiny on the high seas. And pirates in St. Augustine have become the stuff of legend. This month, the two join forces for Mutiny with the Bounty, an action-packed weekend of pirates and privateers in the Nation’s Oldest City, presented...

Mar 25, 2012

As a movie and TV producer, Gale Anne Hurd has taken viewers into postapocalyptic futures and across the galaxy. She was a producer of The Terminator (which she also cowrote) and its sequels and spinoffs, as well as Aliens, Tremors, and, most recently, AMC’s The Walking Dead. The zombie show’s popularity whetted her appetite to make more TV; Hurd’s...

Mar 20, 2012

  Just got the cover for the new pirate Devlin book, Blood Diamond. It’s the same great artist as Hunt for White Gold and I think we now have a good theme for the series. Note the left-locked pistol. It was on the second cover as well. Devlin’s trade-marked weapon. It’s released in July, and I’m really proud of it. I got a PDF of...

Mar 13, 2012

For the past 20 years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — better known as MIT — has unofficially been offering a super secret athletic “program” for students who take a certain group of courses. Upon completing all of these course, they achieve a certain “scurvy-scum” status amongst their less inclined peers. Indeed, students who take and...

Mar 11, 2012

A seven-year-old boy who was told to take down his pirate flag by a Lincolnshire council has received a letter of apology. Anthony Steele, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was told his Jolly Roger breached planning regulations. East Lindsey District Council said it had acted after a complaint was made about the flag. However, it has now sent the family an...