Author/editor Cindy Vallar stopped by for a talk with Krogfiction.  Her story in A Tall Ship is titled "Rumble the Dragon."

A retired librarian, Cindy Vallar is the Editor of Pirates and Privateers, an online publication about the history of maritime piracy. She’s also a historical novelist, a reviewer, and a freelance editor. Her editing column “The Red Pencil” appears biannually in the Historical Novel Society’s Historical Novels Review. She conducts workshops and presentations on ma...

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Author Laura Nelson came by Krogfiction for a chat.  Her story in A Tall Ship is titled Rosa and the Pirate.  Of herself, she says: I live at home with my two cats Houdini and Aliti. When I'm not reading or writing about pirates, I enjoy cats, walking, Tai Chi, horse racing, reading history and true crime.

1)      Why did you decide to write about pirates?

I became interested in pirates after attending the Real Pirates Exhibit in Denver, Co, in 2011. After attending the exhibit, I found that...

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D.G. Driver is an author from Nashville, TN.  Her story in A Tall Ship is titled The Jamaican Dragon. 

1)      Why did you decide to write about pirates? 

Back in 1995 I was asked to write a children’s musical for a theater company in Los Angeles.  I came up with a story called “A Pirate’s Tale” about a girl who wanted to be a pirate.  My villain was Captain Ringlet Red, a vivacious and cruel pirate queen.  I always liked the character.  I decided I wanted to let her have her own adven...

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Author Kathryn Sullivan stopped by for an interview.

Kathryn Sullivan is the author of the award-winning young adult fantasies The Crystal Throne, Agents & Adepts, and award-nominated Talking to Trees as well as a children’s picture book, Michael & the Elf. A Chick who has dug Time Lords for many years, she has an essay in the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords and a review in Outside In. “The Taste of Treasure” is in Clockwork Spells and Magical Bells and “The Theft of the Royal...
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Author Michael Krog lives and works in Memphis, TN.  His story in A Tall Ship is titled, Fireflies on the Water.  It is his first published work.

1)      Why did you decide to write about pirates? 

 That was what the story call was for. “Fireflies” was an idea I had had for a while and was, in my mind, already in that era anyway. Changing it to be more pirate oriented was no problem at all.

 2)      Why do you write at all?  What made want to spend your life on work to which a smaller a...

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Tom Riddell is the author of the Vanquished Heroes series.  His story in A Tall Ship is titled Rasputin's Whimsey.  He kindly consented to an interview at Krogfiction.  

1)      Why did you decide to write about pirates?  In my story I wanted to, in part, explore how and why an honest captain and crew would end up living the pirate life. It is a hard life why take the risk?

2)      Why do you write at all?  What made want to spend your life on work to which a smaller and smaller percentag...

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Author/Editor D. Alan Lewis stopped by for an interview.  Mr Lewis's story in A Tall Ship is titled, The Celeste Affair. 

In 1965, an object fell from space, somewhere near Kecksburg, PA. This was the same year that Alan was born. To date, no connection has been made between the two events but that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists from speculating.

D. Alan Lewis is an ‘alleged’ native of Chattanooga, Tennessee who now resides in Nashville with his children. In 2006, Alan took t...

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Author Paul Calhoun, who wrote the amusingly titled and amusing to read, Eighty-Six Pitrell Becomes Dread Admiral, for A Tall Ship, a Star, and Plunder, kindly let me interview him.  

Paul Calhoun has been active in the science fiction and fantasy community since age seven. Having turned his hand to cartoons, animation, voice work and more, he's willing to try anything and get involved in whatever looks good at the time. Now finished with his degrees in electrical engineering and operations ma...
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