Join the Crew of The Resilience 🏴☠️
Hej Writer!
Welcome aboard The Resilience – my semi-sentient metafictional pirate ship. She’s an opinionated old lady who has become the creative home for a procrastination of indie authors and the portal to our literary worlds.
Our crew is made up of a merry band of rebel writers. Together, we’re sailing the stormy seas of Concordia in an ongoing adventure that blends storytelling with entrepreneurship, and creativity with sustainability. Whether on sea or ashore at our home port in Libertalia, we’re on a mission to prove that independent creators can build something truly meaningful where heart and grit matter more than budgets and corporate buzzwords.
We’re running a small but mighty independent press that publishes very real books, builds games from the worlds we create, and produces arts and crafts in our Quarterdeck Studio. Our Digital Shipwrites Guild is also branching out to develop an immersive Resilience app, and we recently opened a merch shop on Etsy.
All our operations are based on the principle that our creative business should be as engaging as the stories we tell. We are a small, scrappy lot held together by the belief that the best adventures happen when you’re willing to figure things out as you go.
Life Aboard the Ship
Sailing with us means embracing the whimsy of the metafictional pirate life while understanding that behind all the creative chaos, we’re building something real and sustainable. We may not believe in corporate nonsense, but we absolutely believe in treating people fairly, communicating clearly, and – like any author worth their salt – delivering on the promise of our premise.
We value:
- Creative Collaboration: Every project benefits from multiple perspectives, whether it’s brainstorming character arcs or polishing prose.
- Fair Partnership: We believe in transparent agreements, shared credit where due, and compensation that reflects the value writers bring.
- Reliable Storytelling: If we commit to a story deadline or publication date, we honour it. We don’t feed people to the Kraken for missing a deadline, but we can’t guarantee the Snurkleblatt won’t spray you with purple ink.
- Authentic Voices: We celebrate what makes each writer unique while maintaining the cohesive world-building that makes Concordia special.
Our Crew Culture
In the real world, we’re spread across different time zones, so everything aboard works asynchronously. There’s no clocking in or hovering over shoulders, but we do have a Discord server, a Google Drive for collaboration, and the trust that people will deliver what they promised or let us know if they’re temporarily shipwrecked.
The vibe is friendly and supportive. We love our pirate core, ship’s humour, and a bit of creative chaos, but we balance the fun with actually getting things done and producing quality work. We’re passionate about storytelling, but we’re professional pirates, donchaknow.
Who Thrives Here
The writers who flourish in our crew love deep dives into character motivations, worldbuilding details, and those plot threads that keep you awake at ridiculous o’clock, filling you with excitement rather than anxiety.
Resilience writers get genuinely thrilled when someone asks about their characters’ back stories, favourite foods, or what they’d do in completely random scenarios. We also have a tendency to turn our characters into crew members, and some of them have even ended up writing their own books. True story.
Between us, we’re writing epic fantasy sagas, weird fiction, horror, sci-fi, romance with and without spice, and erotica. We appreciate having creative companions who don’t roll their eyes when we come up with yet another story idea for the slushpile, and who understand that researching murder methods or medieval horse breeds at midnight is perfectly reasonable behaviour.
Fair warning – this is a place where no one ever gets tired of talking shop, brainstorming solutions to impossible problems, or celebrating each other’s milestones and victories.
Why Join Us?
We’re building a community where storytellers support each other’s journeys, share resources and discoveries, and create together in ways that make all our individual work stronger.
This isn’t about building platforms – although we can help you build yours – it’s about the pure joy of writing alongside others who love the craft as much as you do. About about having a creative space where your storytelling dreams are understood, supported, and celebrated.
If that sounds like the right place for you – and you can appreciate a good sea shanty and the fact some of us (okay, it’s me) have a more colourful language than what may be considered ladylike – we’d love to welcome you aboard.
– Linnea Lucifer 🏴☠️
Captain of the Resilience