Arrr! 15 men on a dead man's chest...

[erastes]

While browsing the other covers by Larry Rostant I found "Flint and Silver" by John Drake.  I nearly drooled myself out of my chair because I think that I was slashing these two even as a child reading Treasure Island.  Not that I knew what slash was, but many of my plays involved me as Silver and my best friend Martin as Flint and we were insperable bad guys, plundering the Spanish Main.

Then I had a look at the blurb for Flint and Silver and read this:

Silver's promising career in the merchant navy looks set to come to an end! until the pirate captain makes him an offer he can't refuse. On the other side of the world Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. Strikingly handsome, brilliant, but prey to sadistic tendencies, the path Flint has chosen will ultimately lead him to Silver. Together these gentlemen of fortune forge a deadly and unstoppable partnership

And I was even more hopeful!  But sadly, a woman intervenes and that's what split up their beautiful friendship.

I would not have written it that way.  After all, Silver was mightily interested in Jim.

Erastes: destroying your childhood memories, one at a time.

Comments

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Those book covers are stunning. I had assumed they were photos given the photoshop treatment but now I'm not so sure. I'm having a lot of fun working out how they were done.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I assumed they were photos and then electronically painted on top - not that I have a clue. My editor said, when our covers were done that she was disappointed that they weren't "more illustrated" and now I know what she means, she obviously was hoping for something more like those (which are obviously his best work)

[eternalism.livejournal.com]

plundering the Spanish Main

I so misread that as "plundering that Spanish man"! And didn't think anything of it, given that this is your LJ. *laughs* Plundering booty indeed!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Spanish Mame was a well known Tortugaean Transvestive-male escort who charged more than any female whore on the island. Rouged and reribboned, the sailors (who, admittedly were often so drunk as to be half blind) swore they couldn't tell the difference between Mame and a woman. And after a bottle of rum they didn't care anyway.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Women! *pah* They always bloody interfere!