Ka-Pow! collects fiction and non-fiction superhero tales into one e-book with a good purpose: to donate money to the Foundation for Sustainable Development. Timid Pirate worked with Aaron Dietz to put together this star-studded anthology. As superheroes take over screen, stage and page, and with costumed patrollers out of the conventions and in the streets, Timid Pirate [...]
Read more →The masked man, the myth of the superhero, is being lived out by citizens and amazing human beings. As we enter a time where supers walk through mundane cities and myths become reality, Timid Pirate is thrilled to announce that we will be publishing a superhero anthology. Working with Aaron Dietz as part of his [...]
Read more →Timid Pirate is thrilled to announce our first ever audio book, which will be for Erik Scott de Bie’s Eye for an Eye, including the notorious superheroine Lady Vengeance and the techie inventor Stardust fighting malevolence and ex-boyfriends. Each section will be read by one of several characters for which we are looking for voice [...]
Read more →Cobalt City Rookies is a young adult trilogy that features three novels with superhero, teenage protagonists. They all take place in Cobalt City, where superheroes have always run rampant. However, in recent years there’s been a decided lack of heroes, and teens are stepping into the gap to make the City safe. This interview is [...]
Read more →Cobalt City Rookies is a young adult trilogy that features three novels with superhero, teenage protagonists. They all take place in Cobalt City, where superheroes have always run rampant. However, in recent years there’s been a decided lack of heroes, and these teens are stepping into the gap, like Morgan, a hacker from Hong Kong. His [...]
Read more →Cobalt City Rookies is a young adult trilogy that features three novels with superhero, teenage protagonists. They all take place in Cobalt City, where superheroes have always run rampant. However, in recent years there’s been a decided lack of heroes, and these teens are stepping into the gap, like Jamie, who can see and talk to [...]
Read more →Cobalt City Rookies is a young adult trilogy that features three novels with superhero, teenage protagonists. They all take place in Cobalt City, where superheroes have always run rampant. However, in recent years there’s been a decided lack of heroes, and these teens are stepping into the gap, like Miranda, the Tatterdemalion. Miranda Lee starts the [...]
Read more →Behind the curtain, we’ve been putting together a trilogy of young adult novels. These three novels take place in the Cobalt City superhero universe. To prepare for this, last year I started devouring young adult books in an editorial attempt to figure out what kind of books we wanted to publish. I read at least [...]
Read more →This summer, Timid Pirate Publishing released the Cobalt City Double Feature, which contains two superhero novellas. One, “Eye for an Eye,” by Erik Scott de Bie follows the techie hero Stardust and the alcoholic, voluptuous Lady Vengeance as her ex-boyfriend tries to get revenge. The other, “The Place Between,” by Minerva Zimmerman, follows the growth [...]
Read more →This guest post is by Minerva Zimmerman, author of “The Place Between,” one of the two novellas in the Cobalt City Double Feature. I’m the kind of girl your comics guy warned you about. I don’t really like superheroes. I find most of them tiring and well past their ‘best by date’. I like [...]
Read more →We’ve been a little quiet this summer, and we apologize. But–have you seen the Cobalt City Double Feature? Because shazam! It’s an awesome two-for-one novella pack, including lots of Cobalt City superheroes written by Erik and Minerva. I often edit in coffeeshops, and (true story) I got kicked out of one because I was laughing [...]
Read more →The Star of New England, Cobalt is a mid-sized city, close in scale to Boston. Scene of some of the Revolutionary War’s stranger battles, Cobalt City has a long Cape and Cowl tradition, with some heroic identities, such as the Huntsman, stretching back hundreds of years. Comprised of several distinct neighborhoods, it holds on to [...]
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