Excerpt from new Pirates of the Caribbean novel now available!
 

Hi, just an update...I posted an excerpt from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom on my ******** page. I think anyone can read it. Hope you'll enjoy it. My ******** page is under the name Ann Crispin.

There will soon be an excerpt up on my website. www.accrispin.com

I'm allowed to publicize the book now, and can talk fairly freely about it.

Fair winds and smooth seas,

-Ann C. Crispin

Ann,

Thank you so much for posting this! I can't wait to start reading! I love your books, having plowed through the 'V' books with gusto and so much good stuff from the Star Wars universe - I can't imagine anything but excellence for Jack Sparrow and company!

Had the great opportunity to meet and hear you speak a couple of years ago and it was great experience.


EC

Thank you, Eliza! I love meeting my readers. It's one of the best things about the "authoring biz!"

-Ann C. Crispin

Thank you!!!

BTW, did anyone who read the excerpt get the "in" joke relating to another famous (or infamous) fictional pirate also brought to life by Disney?

-Ann C. Crispin

Hi, folks!

Thought I'd post just the first page of Chapter One of The Price of Freedom here, for your delectation. Hope you enjoy reading it!

CHAPTER ONE: FAIR WINDS AND BLACK SAILS

Jack Sparrow, first mate of the East India Trading Company merchant vessel Fair Wind, stood on the quarterdeck, glaring down at most of his hastily assembled crew. Beside him rested a large cask. It sloshed faintly as the brig glided over the topaz waters of the Caribbean Sea, three days out from Port Royal, Jamaica. Jack drummed his fingers on the top of the half-empty cask. “This rum,” he said, raising his voice so he could be heard over the creaking of the sails, the slap of the sea, and the rush of the wind, “is half gone. WHY is the rum gone?”

The weatherbeaten faces that had been regarding him quizzically suddenly vanished as each crewman looked down, twisting his cap in hands scored by years of hard, dangerous work at sea. The men shuffled their feet on the holystoned planks of the Fair Wind’s weather deck. No one ventured a reply.

Jack hadn’t really expected any of the culprits to confess, and “peaching” on a mate was regarded as lowest of the low among the men, so the lack of a reply didn’t surprise him. He actually sympathized with the culprits. After all, the stolen substance was RUM. Jack liked rum as well as any man. Well, to be truthful, better than most. But this rum was not, technically speaking, rum. It was cargo. He let his temper, until now held in check, rise.

“I will TELL you why the rum is gone,” Jack roared. He thumped the top of the container. “This half-empty cask, which as of last night was full of rum bound for England, rum entrusted to this vessel to be carried in her hold until we reach our destination, rum intended to be sold to the taverns and cellars of England, to slake English thirsts is gone because,” he paused for effect, “several members of this crew that stands before me, this same crew of misbegotten scurvy sea dogs, crept down into the hold and GUZZLED it!”

Just read the except from the next chapter, AC! Great stuff! It's wonderful to see the members of the court again - including the man who preceeded Barbossa as Lord of the Caspian. And I love how you tie elements from the movies into the backstory either for humor or for helpful insight.

I truly can't wait to slake my own thirst here.

Here's the link for the next excerpt, which is the first-ever meeting between Jack Sparrow and Cutler Beckett. Enjoy!

http://www.accrispin.com/The%20Price...cerpt%2002.pdf

Have a great Christmas, and a very Happy New Year!

-A.C. Crispin

It's January, so it's time for the third excerpt from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom. You'll find that this one is VERY different from the previous two.

Enjoy!

http://www.accrispin.com/The%20Price...cerpt%2003.pdf

A.C. Crispin
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom
Disney Publishing Worldwide
Release date: May 17, 2011

Hello, and Happy Valentine's Day!

The fourth excerpt from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom is now up on my web page, along with the cover. The cover shows The Wicked Wench, and the skull is on the back cover.

I hope you'll enjoy it, and only 92 days to go until release date!

Here's the URL:
http://www.accrispin.com/The%20Price...cerpt%2004.pdf

-Ann C. Crispin

It was great! I will be buying this book!

Fifth Excerpt from The Price of Freedom
 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here's the fifth excerpt from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom:

http://www.accrispin.com/The%20Price...cerpt%2005.pdf

Jack sees The Wicked Wench for the first time! :12_1_138:

Only 8 weeks to go before release!

-A.C. Crispin
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom
Disney Editions
May 17, 2011

Avast!

Amazon.com has finally activated the "pre-order" link for The Price of Freedom. Check it out here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423107047/

Thanks!

-A.C. Crispin
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom
Disney Editions
May 17, 2011

New excerpt from The Price of Freedom is up on Tor.com. This is the first swordfight from the novel!

http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/05/p...reedom-excerpt

-A.C. Crispin
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom
Disney Editions
May 17, 2011

Your story is great Ac! Love it!