Getting Our Pirate On with Maureen O. Betita (CONTEST!)
EDITED TO ADD – Tamra Baumann and Jean Willett, you’re the lucky winners! I’ll be in touch. 
Terri Osburn here and I’ve brought my friend Maureen O. Betita to visit with us today. The author of The Kraken’s Caribbean series, Maureen is a lover of pirate adventure. She throws a little bit of everything into her books. You get time travel and sexual witches, matchmaking albino krakens and a villainess ice queen with a crystal lair. But always in the mix are her pirates. And what would pirates be without the sea?
Mother Ocean
Water, the sea…the many which are one. For there are truly no borders with oceans. They flow into each other, they merge and linger with each other. I love writing about life upon the ocean. There is a freedom found upon the sea.
As children, if we’re lucky, we find our imaginations set free when we swim. Didn’t all of us pretend we were mermaids? Play Marco/Polo in the pool? Lay at the bottom and gaze up into the sky? Or ride atop waves on inflatable rafts, screaming in excitement as the white foam surrounded us. In the water, we are weightless (or nearly so)…and it’s as if memories of when we floated in the womb reawaken.
Is it any wonder we love the water? In my pirate books, my sailors are at home upon the water. Captain Jake considers the sea his home, and for Miranda? It is a literal second home since the gift of Manhe enables her to swim as a giant ray.
For those of us who live near the sea, it is the place we go when troubled, to gaze at that relentless surge. We study the paths the sun and moon cast and dream of walking that road…
The scent of the ocean, the crashing of waves, the dazzle of light upon the surface…the ocean inspires so much. For me, it inspires writing about the men and women who sail those currents.
Terri Osburn invited me to blog with you Firebirds today. I know Terri lives close to the ocean, and though her ocean is far from mine, all are the same.
I’m Maureen O. Betita and I write pirate adventure novels. My series, Forever A Pirate, consists of 30 books (6 released so far) and 1 romantic couple. I believe in HEA, but it’s a continual labor of love. If you’r
e of a mind to take a break and sail with pirates, I invite you to board the Moonstone. Begin with book 1 A Caribbean Spell, then follow the adventure through the others.
In this book you’ll meet Miranda, time traveling sexual witch, running from a sorrow few could imagine. She’s impetuous, friendly and a bit of a meddler. She needs the touch of a lover’s hand to power her magical abilities. She travels, she never stays.
Until Jake. He’s a pirate captain, daring, clever and born a thief. He knows his way around women, but for him it’s never more than a dalliance. Until he hauls the interesting witch from the water and soon, he’s contemplating more than just play. This one, he may keep.
But first, they need to save the world.
Terri here again and I’m giving away digital version of A CARIBBEAN SPELL to two lucky commenters today. So tell us, what’s your favorite thing about playing in the water? Pool, lake, pond, or ocean? Where do you get your splash on? And learn more about Maureen and her books by checking out her website here.
