Self-publishing can work!

First of all, Happy New Year, everybody!   Now, on to what's on my mind. I just finished this book. Other reviewers have said it's like "Pirates of the Caribbean for grown-ups" and "Game of Thrones on the high seas." Both of these are on target. If you want to know what pirate life was really like, I bet this comes closer than any other treatment currently on the market. There's a lot of sailing and a lot of blood, enough pirate story cliches (woman taken hostage from another ship, buried