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Telling the truth isn't always enough.

I am a first-time author bringing an amusing, literate voice to middle-grade fiction. I treat my readers as I find them: dauntless, and deserving respect. And don't try to fool them. They're too smart.

I am raising money to arrange review and publication of Sombar the Pirate, now in final manuscript.

Check out the video -- that's me reading Chapter 1.

Sombar the Pirate

The problem with Stanley Prison is that it's empty.

Constable Bragg needs a prisoner—for a day, or maybe two—just to show that he's doing his job. He sends his half-witted jailer outside to find himself a criminal. There's a boy that lives down by the docks, minding his own business, until the jailer cries, "Thief!" If a frightened boy takes a rowboat, does that make him a pirate?

The jailer thinks it does.

A real pirate would know better. A real pirate would go on a rampage as fast as he could, plotting to lay blame on the innocent boy. But what does that matter?

There hasn't been a pirate in a hundred years.