AUTHOR Barbara G.Tarn (self-interview for Curated Anthologies)
1. What is it about starships that draws you to it?
Stars! I mean, Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Minds… er… that was a self-citation, sorry.
2. What is your story in the anthology about?
A starship pilot and owner who takes people around the Milky Way. Shanell’s story continues in Pilot (Star Minds Lone Wolves).
3. What inspired your story?
Originally it was an exercise for an online workshop about someone stuck in traffic. I had a female taxi driver and turned it into a female starship pilot trying to get on a planet with her customer – and that’s the opening.
4. Do you always write about starships? If not, what do you write about?
The Star Minds series is science fantasy all over, so it has starships, space opera, everything the other Star Thingies have. Then there’s Silvery Earth, secondary world fantasy. Then there’s Future Earth, a more scientific SF (hopefully) on the future of our planet. Then there’s Vampires through the Centuries. Then… just go to www.unicornproductionsbooks.com and check it out!
5. What should readers know about you?
I’m a prolific writer who prefers dabbling in sci-fi and fantasy because she doesn’t like the current situation on this planet much.
6. Is there anything else you’d like to tell us?
After four anthologies, I think I’m going to do a fifth because it’s my favorite number, then I’ll just lay low and wait for invitations into other people’s anthologies. It was wonderful working with all the authors of all the anthologies and I will probably miss it and get back to it in a year or three!