Mark Fiddes lives in London, England with his Spanish wife Maribel and two very mobile sons who love football. He set up the Ideamotel in Soho where he works as a creative director and has won a number of international awards for poetry. His fascination with pirates started as a boy when an Uncle gave him a real dubloon which was said to have come from The Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.