As unfun as real piracy can be, especially for struggling authors, I do enjoy our town’s annual pirate festival in the summer and the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies. My family concluded our summer movie nights with one of my favorite movies, Stardust, which features lightning pirates – a cool concept relegated to a single paragraph of deus ex machina halfway through the book by Neil Gaiman. It’s the rare case of a movie improving upon the source material. Coraline and The Graveyard Bo...