Captain Jeffrey “Blackheart” VanderMeer and his villainous cohorts have released the terms under which authors may in future be allowed to sail the seven genres without risk of being raped, pillaged, boarded, plundered, keelhauled, hung from the yard arm and fed to Great Freshwater Squid by the aforementioned piratical hordes. To ensure your literary safety you need only submit stories in the range of 3,000 to 10,000 words to Captain VanderMeer’s forthcoming parrotical, er, piratical anthology. Backsliders and lilly-livered land-lubbers, not to mention anyone guilty of commiting formula fantasy featuring cute dragons and cats with wings, will become squid food in short order.

Me, I’m waiting on a Naomi Novik “Temeraire and the Pirates” story.