A Tall Ship, A Star, and Plunder

Get out your quill and parchment and give us your best. Following the success of many other anthologies at Dark Oak Press / Kerlak Publishing, we are swashbuckling our way into a new genre. If you are not familiar with the history and literature associated with piracy, please take a look at what is current as well as what is classic, such as Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island, to get an idea of what we are after. Don't limit yourself to classical, argh, Caribbean pirates as the history of piracy has been around as long as there have been ships plying the seas with anything that might be valuable enough to take by force. Piracy was already old when a young Julius Caesar was held hostage by pirates in the Mediterranean and will likely still be around when merchant vessels are traveling the galaxy with cargoes of potential plunder. Piracy is equally probable on other worlds and galaxies and could easily cross into a variety of genres be it steampunk, scifi, fantasy or what have you. Be inventive, but if you choose to place your story in an historical era, and I hope many of you do, be historically accurate. Also remember that the story must be primarily about pirates or piracy. Don't let the particular setting carry you away from the theme of the anthology.

Country of Publication

United States