Score!

At the suggestion of pirates and Age of Sail expert Marcus Rediker, I have a new list of books to read for further research on the pirate novel currently going by the working title of Satisfaction. Here is where living in a metropolitan area pays off: two of the books recommended by Mr. Rediker are available within my home library system, and another is available in one of the neighboring systems. I have library borrowing privileges in each system (actually, I have borrowing privileges in all four of the local systems), and before the end of the week I expect to have waiting for me Joan Druett's She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea, Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail, and Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail.

I still need to find a copy of Rediker's own Many-Headed Hydra, but if I can't lay my hands on it locally there's always Inter Library Loan, which brought me lots of wondrous research material the last time I was hunting books for Satisfaction. (And if it's as good as his Villains of of All Nations and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, I'll end up buying it as well.)

I suppose this means that I'm resuming work on Josh's story next. ::grin::