Stooge News
As you probably know, I, Nelson Cooke the pirate really wrote the novel Pirates of Pensacola, but needed a writer-type-guy to help with grammer and minor stuff like that, plus serve as a front man as I’m still wanted by the law for a trumped-up charge or three.

Now, assuming the pirates there don’t use the poor writerly bastard as a cannon target, the stooge will be signing copies of the book this Saturday, June 4th, in the market area at the Blackbeard Festival in Hampton in some place in the state of Virginia (now what in the heck is the origin of the name of that state?!).

P.S.: Some old thoughts the Blackbeard Festival.


P.P.S: This here’s not a scrimshaw of Blackbeard. Flarq, our regular scrimshaw guy, is out whaling. We do have a file scrimshaw of a bloak with a black beard. It’ll just have to do: