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Tuesday April 10, 2012

All pirates safe

Burton Cole just signed a two-book deal with B&H Publishing Group, a division of Lifeway Christian Resources, for a humor/adventure series for middle-school readers. Bash and the Pirate Pig of the Pond is due out Aug. 1, 2013, in hardback. "No actual pirates were harmed in the writing of this book," says Cole, a humor columnist and assistant metro editor for the Tribune Chronicle in Warren, Ohio. He pens a weekly humor column, "Burt's Eye View."

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