Ahoy, all salty dogs in the Toronto area... The temperature's dropping, but our pirate grog's hot!

Kiss Machine is launching VIOLET MIRANDA: GIRL PIRATE #3 of 4 (written by Emily Pohl-Weary and illustrated by Willow Dawson)

Thursday, February 22, 2007, at Babel Books & Music (123 Ossington, just north of Queen West), from 7 to 9 pm.

What's on the bill?

• Jennifer LoveGrove will read from The Dagger Between Her Teeth, in which she resurrects and reinvents the dramatic lives of two eighteenth-century corsairs, Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

• Black Shadrach and Esmerelda Truelove of Pirate Honeymoon will rock you like you're in a seaside shanty.
• Hot off the press copies of Violet #3!
• Free rum grog and tattoos to ward off scurvy and fit in with the other stylish Queen West pirates...
• And prizes for the best-dressed pirates!

Any scallywags in the mood for continued merriment can saunter down to Sweaty Betty's bar with us afterwards. It's just a few doors south...