Pirates and other marine life

One of the problems I had with my novel 'The Pirate Princess' was writing it for a particular audience as children have a particularly affinity with pirate tales, but I wanted to introduce more fantasy elements and darker themes within the story too. In the end, I suppose my completed novel(la) was one that could be aimed at 'young adults' which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but I still have a sense of dissatisfaction with the finished book. I have thought since I completed it that I could have done a bit more with it. That's why I'm planning to write a sequel, which will be a much more complex book. However, I didn't realise that Tim Powers had got there first with the kind of idea that has been playing on my mind for a while.

I think I am still going to write the book eventually though but I'm glad that I didn't read 'On Stranger Tides' by Tim Powers before I wrote 'The Pirate Princess', as I wouldn't have wanted to be too heavily influenced by his ideas in this novel. I haven't read this book yet and as I have my plans to write a sequel I probably shouldn't, but you will recognise the title as the sub-title for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film. Hollywood took an option on his story and fitted it into Jack Sparrow's film canon (Powers' hero is called Jack Shandy).



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More about the novel here

Coincidentally, bearing in mind my blog post of a few weeks ago, Tim Powers was also a so-called protege of Philip K.Dick.

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