TheBlackFox

My only ink be Pyrate ink. The character of our ship, The Polly Dodger. The motto translates from the Latin as "Don't shyte on Me" (dodging one's Polly is serious)

Our Wholesale orders are running out the door and I want to make up about 100 parcels of 25 copies of The Pyrates Way. What's great is that they fit in the standard $8.50 Flat Rate Priority Box! So if you want 25 copies of the magazine, we can take care of you quicker than lesser quantities. The cost is 50% of the cover (25 mags = $74.87) and we'll even eat the $8.50 shipping. . .so for less than $75 you get the magazines as quickly as the Post Office can get them to you at Priority Mail rates. I'm making this offer on several boards, so pardon if you've seen it elsewhere. Just go here to make the deal complete: http://www.pyratesway.com/whole.html You'll see the 25 copy button in the upper left hand side of the order box. . .just click it and it'll take you to the PayPal Account. If you want to pay by check, send it to: 25 Wholesale, c/o The Pyrates Way, PO Box 1231, Bear, DE 19701

I may approach them directly since they're local but I would think they get most of their mags, rags, cards and collectibles (hey, that's a cool name for a store m'thinks). . . from Diamond Distributors owned by Steve Jeppi. Diamond is a distributor of our magazine, so just about every specialty card/comic shop will have the opportunity to get copies.

Yepper, Amazon.com, the biggest distributor of books and magazines on the planet, now offers The Pyrates Way Magazine. http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchan...6003518-2330548 You pay the cover price plus shipping as noted. Yes. We ARE excited. As for Barnes & Noble. . .they contacted us a month ago about carrying the magazine and we're finished with the submission process for Borders. We can't tell you when they'll be on those store shelves but the timing is weeks, not months. Your best bet is to beg for the publication at your local shop to help get us out there. The smaller outlets will have to contact us directly (many small chains have already). We're not going with a major distributor because of their "middle-man" business practices. (it takes six months to be paid by the distributor who wants a 70% discount and the publisher must pay for any magazines not sold (i.e. returns). . . this doesn't seem really fair, considering the distributors get paid up front by the store chains.) Never the less, should the two large magazine distributors come up with a better deal for independent publishers, we'll re-assess the situation.

Considering that the poster has only posted 4 times and either been postive FOR Pirates Magazine or negative toward me and the many fellow pirates who put together The Pyrates Way, I'd take this opinion with a grain of salt and question whether it's friends of our competition, trying to sway folks. . . it's kind of sad. All I can say is pick up a copy of The Pyrates Way which will be hitting the retail outlets in the next few weeks, or order a copy directly from the website. As with any new idea, there will be detractors, I just wish they were a bit more honest about their motivations and not continue to be keyboard cowards. oh, by the way newspaper is one word.

I'm putting the subscription orders together today, Monday and Tuesday. Subscriptions will go out Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (there's a lot of them). This will also include the mailing of wholesale orders and copies for the advertisers. They're also being sent to the distributors and should be on bookstore shelves in the next few weeks. It's a new magazine from a brand new publisher and bookstore/newsstand folks won't have a lot of copies because there's no "track record" as of yet. Anyone going to MDRF through the end of the season can see me for individual copies. I can't sell them at the festival (I'm not a vendor), but we can work something out offsite. The magazine is absolutely beautiful. Thick pages, thicker cover, perfect-bound (no staples), and chock-full of content (and NO poetry). My only self-critique of it is that although nothing is trimmed off of the image area, some of the page items come too close to the page trims for "comfortable" reading space. I've already fixed that for the next issue.

Well mates, we're only weeks away from delivery of The Pirates Way magazine. It's at press at the moment and should be ready for delivery on September 19, International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Now's your chance to scoop up as many copies as you can in order to meet the need of all yer pyratical consumers! We've got major discounts on wholesale magazines, and we ship for FREE! Check out our incredible wholesale deal at: http://www.pyratesway.com/whole.html Thank ye for yer consideration! Steve "The Black Fox" Kimball Publisher, The PyratesWay www.pyratesway.com

I got to visit Baltimore Knife & Sword about six months ago and I'd never been to a sword crafter before and was very impressed with their operation, quality, and customer care. Plus they're just good people and down-to-earth. If you've not read the article about them in the "other" piratical publication you should. If they weren't already married to the "other" piratical publication, I would have featured them in The Pyrates Way. I give credit where it's due, PM did a good job on the article and Baltimore Knife & Sword rock.

'tis official. After months of hard work and help from many friends on this here very board. . . THE PYRATES WAY has gone to press! As of 20 minutes ago, the printer has received the documents to print the magazine. I need major drinkage in celebration. . . but I think I'll take a nap first. http://www.pyratesway.com/subscribe.html to subscribe http://www.pyratesway.com/whole.html to buy a bunch of issues

The copy of Pirates Magazine that I got to look at was from an advertiser who is also advertising in The Pyrates Way. It was his impression that the magazine has not in wide release through distributors. A lady at MDRF on Sunday said she looked for it at every Borders and Barnes & Noble in Maryland the Firday before. (I kinda' doubt she hit EVERY one) For our magazine, we've cut out the middle man and are going to the retail chains directly and to the specialty stores as they order wholesale from us. There's only two major independent magazine distributors used by the major chains and dealing with them could put an independent out of business! I look at it this way, our magazine is $5.99 on the shelf. You can subscribe for only $20 a year which is only $5 a magazine including delivery. Now, we do have a huge percentage of our print run going to the retail chains but they won't list us in their directories until they have two issues in house on time in a row. (they're kinda' persnickity about having to update stock on computers if the periodical arrives haphazzardly). We'll have our magazine out prior to the 19th of each quarterly month that it's due out. There's also lots of outside problems that magazines have to deal with and their distributors, Pirates Magazine could just be still on the trucks, on their way to the stores and arrive at different locations at different dates. . . same could happen to us. . . it's a crap shoot unless we deliver them ourselves all over the country. . . . and I can't afford to put that kinda' milage on my Honda Pilot!

4 issues (it's seasonal) at $20 a year, $30 for a two-year subscription (save half on the second year). . . pretty sweet deal. www.pyratesway.com/subscribe.html

There's another Pirate Magazine thread, but I think I'll cut n paste my reply from there to here: I was originally on staff with Pirates Magazine but found that the publisher wanted to create a magazine that was similar to their other publication "Faerie Magazine." i.e. lots of huge photos, large type, good articles but not "piratical" enough. Thus we parted ways back in late March and I started work on "The Pyrates Way" magazine. I won't besmirch the competition because their magazine is finally out (May's release became June, then finally came out a week ago). I've flipped through the magazine and it really looks nice and I give them a Huzzahh for the great work. The Pyrates Way, however, treats pyracy with a much more "Margaritaville" approach. The pyrate history in our pages isn't just history. We find an interesting angle on a pirate or pyratical event and bring you a new prospective on an old story. We also fill the magazine with beautiful big pictures including "Wenches of the Quarter" which highlights three lovely tarts upon which you can vote upon on our website (interaction with readers is always a good thing). Tomorrow I put the first issue to press. We have a 15,000 piece press run of a full colour magazine and for subscribers, we have "booty" in each issue. The booty in the first issue includes a "Plank Owner's" card and certificate with your name hand-calligraphied (if that's a word) on them and a COA for the first issue of the magazine, should you get two and want to sell one on eBay in the future. We've already begun work on the Winter issue. I hope that clears up the confusion and I think both magazines will have their own nitch in the pirate community. . . . I just think ours will be more fun!

I was originally on staff with Pirates Magazine but found that the publisher wanted to create a magazine that was similar to their other publication "Faerie Magazine." i.e. lots of huge photos, large type, good articles but not "piratical" enough. Thus we parted ways back in late March and I started work on "The Pyrates Way" magazine. I won't besmirch the competition because their magazine is finally out (May's release became June, then finally came out a week ago). I've flipped through the magazine and it really looks nice and I give them a Huzzahh for the great work. The Pyrates Way, however, treats pyracy with a much more "Margaritaville" approach. The pyrate history in our pages isn't just history. We find an interesting angle on a pirate or pyratical event and bring you a new prospective on an old story. We also fill the magazine with beautiful big pictures including "Wenches of the Quarter" which highlights three lovely tarts upon which you can vote upon on our website (interaction with readers is always a good thing). Tomorrow I put the first issue to press. We have a 15,000 piece press run of a full colour magazine and for subscribers, we have "booty" in each issue. The booty in the first issue includes a "Plank Owner's" card and certificate with your name hand-calligraphied (if that's a word) on them and a COA for the first issue of the magazine, should you get two and want to sell one on eBay in the future. We've already begun work on the Winter issue. I hope that clears up the confusion and I think both magazines will have their own nitch in the pirate community. . . . I just think ours will be more fun!

It is excellent layout work . . . much cleaner than Faerie Magazine. Content is appropriate as well. . . very good job and kudos to Kim & crew on such a fine product. I just wished they'd come out with the issue in June as they promised. . . now the shelves will be overrun with Pirate-themed magazines! Disney now has two of 'em out for POTC. . . Room for all, says I, as long as the content is different. . . I guess ya can't get enough piracy readin'!

'tis truly a small world!

For anyone coming to The Maryland Renaissance Festival opening weekend, I'll have the mock up of The Pyrates Way with me all weekend of you'd like to take a look, ask questions, etc. . . We'll also be at MDRF shooting photos on Adventure Weekend and be at The Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire doing the same on Pirates Weekend.

OKIEDOAKIE THEN. . . . We're down to the last few weeks till the Pyrates Way premiere issue heads to the printer (August 31 is the drop-deadline). It's filled with a ton of beautiful, colorful, and informative items pyratical all created in a very tongue-n-cheek, "Margaritaville" fashion. It's the very best offering for pirate enthusiasts as it shows off their festivals and reenactments with full-color photos. I think everyone will love the magazine! I know I do. . .but I'm just a tad biased! Anyway. . . we still have a few pages of ads to fill prior to the print date, so if you or some piratical/boating/leatherworking/seafaring merchant needs some publicity, we'd love to have 'em come aboard and we've got some very inexpensive adspace offerings at: http://www.pyratesway.com/ppbutts/lastad.html Subscriptions are at: http://www.pyratesway.com/subscribe.html of if you want bulk amounts of the magazine, cheap: http://www.pyratesway.com/whole.html Thank you for your time and I approve this message.

Is there any other online sources for this raid? Living just 40 minutes from Lewes, I'm always looking for close Pirate events. I can't find anything on the city's calendar and I called the city office and they didn't know of anything. Any help would be great!

A few of us regulars from MDRF "warm up" at NYRF opening weekend. My wife, my daughter and I will be there Opening Day in our Pyrate best (my daughter has a beautiful new plumb-coloured pyrate outfit). I'd love to meet some folks from Pyracy Pub and make new friends. Look for us, I'll have m'green pyrate coat on and my Pyrates Way hook on m'hand.

It's the famous Latin phrase "Don't shyte On Me". . . . our boat is named "The Polly Dodger" thus the motto! LOL www.pollydodger.com

I made the pyratical plunge over a four-hour period yesterday as I got my very first tat and of course, it be pyratical. Check it out!

I'll take my 12-year-old Appleton Estates Jamaican Rum. . . out of my copper rum ration cup when looking out over the Delaware Bay. . . watching a tug follow the current in the early a.m. then swinging back toward Philly with some barge in tow. Salty air, low clouds, a few gulls and the sounds of a tug in fog. . . rum clears up any atmosphere m'thinks.

I'm cuious as to how many pyrate-folk have boats and if they had the boat first, then became pyrates or vice-versa.

I'm über-interested in this! (My uncommon-law wench and myself live in Bear, DE). . . and would make an excellent sidebar to The Pyrates Way's POTCII article. . . send me the info PLEASE!

BONO has gone solo ... well, for one album anyway. He is one of many artists on a new compilation called Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys. He does a version of Dying Sailor To His Shipmates. The 43-track double album was conceived by GORE VERBINSKI, director of the forthcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, with help from the film’s star, actor JOHNNY DEPP. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT does Lowlands Away with his folk singer mother KATE McGARRIGLE, while JARVIS COCKER sings A Drop Of Nelson’s Blood. ANTONY from ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS and ROXY MUSIC’s BRYAN FERRY do Lowlands Low. The album, by Anti Records, is out on August 22. found at: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-20062...6290178,00.html