Kester Brewin

Tag: Pirates

  • On Pirates and Parrots

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    Had a question come in via Twitter the other day, asking why pirates have traditionally been depicted as having parrots on their shoulders, so thought I’d post some quick thoughts… Truth be told, there is little evidence that lots of pirates did have parrots perched on them – the image appears to have begun with…

  • Press / Review Copies of Mutiny

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    As Mutiny! is being self-published, there’s no ‘big machine’ behind it to be able to easily distribute lots of gratis copies for reviewers…sorry! However, I obviously want people to be able to get hold of the book if they are going to help publicise it. So, for a limited time, I’ve arranged for reviewers to…

  • Mutiny! Available Now!

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    The time for Mutiny has finally come! I was going to wait until everything had worked itself through various systems and things were sorted on Amazon and iBookstore etc, but in the end I thought sod it – just let the thing run free now… especially as Lulu are offering a really nice site-wide discount…

  • Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition… The CofE Needs to just Get Over It

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    With the news that the CofE has come out (h-hmmm) and said that it is gravely concerned about the effect of gay marriage on the Church and its relation to the state, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some history… A good friend, when hearing about what I was writing,…

  • Mutiny [5] – Original Pirate Material

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    Check back tomorrow for some big news on Mutiny… but in the mean time, here’s the book stack that influenced most of my thinking. Some you should be familiar with, others may be not so! As you can see…the source material for this one is wide and varied, and hopefully a little different from some…

  • Mutiny [4] – TAZ | ‘Sending a Cow After a Hare’ | A Merry Life, and a Short One

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    I’ve been blogging through some of the reasons I’ve chosen to self-publish my new book, Mutiny – Why We Love Pirates and How They Can Save Us, exploring ideas of controlling the means of production, re-imagining ideas of copyright and being able to say exactly what I want to say. One of the final reasons…