As you may have heard, I’m headed to Shore Leave 44 and I’m interviewing authors that have been going to the show and have knowledge to impart.  I just got off a call with Kelli Fitzpatrick, who’s been going to shore leave since 2017, just a year after her debut as a Star Trek author in the 2016 edition of Strange New Worlds.  She’s attended many years of Shore Leave, including the virtual editions but was happy to get back to the in person events.

We spoke about her upcoming Captain Marvel: Declassified book, due out in March of 2025, and talked about how complex the character’s story has been in the comics, and how she’s taken that complicated set of stories and found the common throughline.

She was recently included in Women Take the Conn, a series of essays on Trek that had a novel take on academic essays: pick one female character from TOS and take a deep dive into what makes them tick.

Fun fact about Kelli is that she’s been working with Modiphius to create content for their series of Trek RPG books, both behind the scenes and on the printed page. I’ve still not been able to find a group to play this with, but the single player version of the game was recently released and it sounds like it might be my route into the game.

Her next couple books due to be out? A Space Western and an actual honest to goodness traditional western story that connects to her love of astronomy.

Kelli can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Blue Sky, or even on her own website.