Set to Sea pg. 100
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•There’s an early, positive review of the Set to Sea book at the Daily Crosshatch, which is nice. It does have a small misunderstanding in it, though, which I’ve heard from a couple people. So, even though it’s kind of a bullshit move to come rushing in as the author to correct people’s interpretations, here I go: The main character in Set to Sea is not a pirate, nor is he on a pirate ship! He was shanghaied onto a regular old merchant clipper ship, as happened frequently in the wild and woolly tea trade of the 1800s. It seems important to clarify – if you come to the story expecting the main character to be a pirate, you might be disappointed by a distinct lack of piratical activities.
Expect spazzy emails from me later today about that first paragraph.
Congratulations on 100 pages! Yay! :)
And whoever thinks this guy is a pirate didn’t start reading from the beginning! For shame!
I think it was just a misinterpretation about the nature of 19th century nautical hiring practices, like perhaps only a pirate ship would stoop to forced labor.