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Avast! Argh! Me hearties!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007I be wishin' ye a happy Talk Like a Pirate Day. For meself, me only regret is that I be forgettin' me frockcoat this mornin when I rose from me berth, but to be truthful to ye, a rare thing in me feild, I overslept a we bit and was thinkin I better haul meself to work. And I be stoppin this now, just want to warn ye not to be a lubber and talk like a pirate! Of course, I am not exactly able to talk like a pirate much...I don't think I can answer the phone, "Avast! Ye be callin' the Department of History and Political Science, tell me what you want, or walk the plank!" No. That won't fly. Two things have preoccupied my time of late, The Templars event here on campus (Did I tell you there will be men doing sword fighting? And Friesian Horses? And if I can arrange it with campus catering, Medieval style food? Oh, and talks on Chivalry, religious military orders, The Templars, and their Myths. My guy is a bit Anti-Dan Brown, so part of it will be de-bunking the idea that there are secret sects of the Templars hiding out doing Things of Questionable Virtue. He has said that many, many really good scholars have gone looking for even the slightest shred of evidence that the Templars survived what happened to them, and have found none. Of course, I could say, “Of course not, silly, *secret* sect, hello!” But the fact is, I tend to believe he’s right. The second? Preparing for Blue Moon to come out Next Month. I’m trying to line up interviews and book reviews, but it’s not easy. I prepared lovely post cards, but Vista Print (even though I uploaded them once and VP said they were fine and met all the specs) refuses to load them for me now. I’ll have to try again tonight. I need the post cards to send off with my press packet to libraries and book stores. Le and sigh. I wanted to do this sooner…by now I’m tempted to wait for the book to actually be out. At least I can do some combining of work, I can push Blue Moon and the short stories together. Ooh…shiny… The Real Master and Commander This book is going directly to the Half.com list… I can highly recommend a book he worked on, if not completely wrote: A General History of The Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates….that’s a really cool book. But oh! Look at these…there look really awesome: Heroines and Harlots Which is about women dressing up as men to go to sea, and Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives Labels: Books I must Own, Talk Like a Pirate Day, Templars Permalink Cindy scribed this at 8:52 AM 0 comments |