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Month: May 2026

  • Pirate Haven: Block Island, Home of the Pearl Inn

    Ahoy, mateys! Bootstrap Ginny here with some more plunderin’ for ye. If’n yer goin to be travelin this summer, yer probably lookin for pirate friendly spots, savvy? Bootstrap Ginny can help ya out! Block Island is one of the stars of my books, Haunted Pirate Tales and Weather Witch, and besides being a great place…

  • Pyrate Road Trip to Under the Black Flag -Part II

    Charleston Creekside Inn Bootstrap Ginny and Black Mel will be staying at the Charleston Creekside Inn during Under the Black Flag. It sits right in the marshes that surround Charleston. Perfect for a pyrate hideout. The marsh around the Charleston Creekside Inn feels like the kind of place where all pyrates (and, really, anyone), should…

  • Pyrate Road Trip to Under the Black Flag -Part I

    Bootstrap Ginny and Black Mel are settin’ sail for the Under the Black Flag event in Charleston, May 15-16, 2026! It’s going to be a pyrate holiday! We’ll be hoisting the sails and plotting a course: First stop: Savannah, Georgia The Pirates’ House! The Pirates’ House is always part of Bootstrap Ginny’s plan if’n she’s…

  • Weather Witch: Tales from the Pearl Inn Available Now!

    The character of Marianne Williams Ward, (loosely based upon the real-life sister of pirate Paulsgrave Williams), was first introduced in my novel, The Devil’s Treasure.  Her appearance in that story was brief, but, (unbeknownst to me at the time), Marianne was going to be living rent free in my head for years, (which, by the way,…

  • Charles Town Pyrate Trial: Part III— The Verdict: The Trial of George Raynor and the Red Seamen

    1696. Charles Town. Captain George Raynor and his Red Seamen waited MOST anxiously for a verdict. Would they be found guilty as pirates and hanged? Or, would they somehow escape the noose? The magistrates stood in the draft that swept through the Great Hall. The crowd leaned forward as one creature — breath held, knuckles…

  • Charles Town Pyrate Trial: Part I I— The Trial of George Raynor and the Red Seamen

    1696. Charles Town. The Provincial Court wasn’t necessarily built for spectacle, but that’s what it got the morning George Raynor was marched inside. The place was already thick with bodies — merchants in their best coats, sailors smelling of tar and sweat, ministers clutching their Bibles like shields. The air itself felt swollen, humid as…

  • Charles Town Pyrate Trial: Part I — When the Bachelor’s Delight Slipped In

    In the late 1690s, Captain George Raynor and his Red Seamen slipped back from the Indian Ocean with pockets full of foreign gold and a ship they dared not sail openly into Charles Town. They anchored instead behind the barrier islands, offloading guns and goods under cover of darkness before scuttling the Bachelor’s Delight to…