Piracy was not the trade I was going into. However, one does not always get to do what they want. So, drunk and shanghaied into a merchant man ship bound to a small isle someplace off the South American coast what do I know or do. Anyways my writing career was not going anywhere at that time. Thus began my career as a cook for a voyage that would turn me from a mild mannered writer to a sword carrying pirate cook fiend.