FORMER EDITORIAL
Tales from a Pirate Chest 1st February 2007
To be honest, a Pirate Chest was where it all began, where the seed which would later develop into Petrojass Publications, was sown.
That 'Chest' was a gift from a young and struggling actor who had seen his mother’s writing and research material piled in cardboard boxes. As soon as that young actor got his first part in a play, he used some of his pay to buy a Pirate Chest for his mother; somewhere she could keep her work.
As the years went by, the Pirate Chest was almost overflowing with creative work: some research notes; half finished stories; scribbles on bits of paper; exercise books, backs of post cards; even bus tickets. Some were hand-written and some typed, later word processed. These were soon joined by a large number of rejection letters from mainstream publishers; though never enough rejections to overwhelm the rich and varied, sometimes controversial stream of creativity.
There came a time when something had to be done. The mother was getting on in years and the thought of leaving her collected work to rest - worse to be recycled by the bin men simply as scrap paper -, coupled with a desire to leave her writing in the hands of, "those who came after", spurred her on to act. That mother, who received and filled the Pirate Chest, was me.
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