I did send some queries, got turned down, shrugged, walked away. However, the thing was for fun, and having published books before, I knew that getting published, marketing, etc, was a lot of hard work. People there liked it too, and it won a Sweet Revolution Award in the category of 'best full cast.' Some reviewers even said, "This is so good, I feel like I ought to be paying money for it." I was now getting hooked on the fact that other people liked it, so I posted the draft to. And some found it a cure for insomnia and never finished it :) It appears to be the sort of book that either you love, or it puts you to sleep. I showed it to some other friends, who loved it. Tangle sprang fully grown from my head and did his damnedest to take over the story :)Īt first I simply wrote and didn't worry about history, I was entertaining myself. And who did Thorton find chained to a bench? Captain Tangle, the most notorious corsair of the age, condemned to death in the galleys. Captain Bishop was a rat bastard and made Thorton's life miserable, ultimately stranding him aboard a sinking galley. In the beginning I thought that some how he and Perry were going to make it work, but they didn't. That gave the material an interesting and different twist - and it's hard to be interesting and different in a genre that's been published for 250 years. Peter Thorton was gay and he had a hopeless secret crush on his best friend and fellow lieutenant, Roger Perry. I started off with the standard formula of the genre: we meet our hero.
I'll write one for my own amusement." It snowballed from there. A couple of years ago, I got disgusted and said, "I'm a writer. I'm a fan of nautical fiction and got tired of the mainstream novels without gay characters, or, when they did, setting them up as nasty little incompetent minor characters whose sole reason for existence was to get knocked down by the big manly straight hero.
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