Swashbuckling Heroines and High Seas Adventures with Novelist Vanessa Riley

Swashbuckling Heroines and High Seas Adventures with Novelist Vanessa Riley

Join us for an unforgettable experience as we chat online with Vanessa Riley about her new novel Fire Sword and Sea, based on the folk story of the female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. Jacquotte Delahaye is the mixed-race daughter of a wealthy tavern owner on the island of Tortuga in the mid-17th century. Jacquotte dreams of joining the sailors and smugglers whose ships cluster in the waters around Tortuga. She moves to Haiti and becomes Jacques, a dockworker, earning the respect of those around her while hiding her gender. For the next 20 years, Jacquotte raids the Caribbean, making enemies and amassing a fortune in stolen gold. When her fellow pirates decide to increase their profits by entering the slave trade, Jacquotte turns away from piracy and the pursuit of riches. Risking her life in one deadly skirmish after another, she instead begins to plot a war of liberation.

Vanessa Riley is an award-winning author of stories that bring to life the hidden narratives of women of color in novels like Island Queen and Queen of Exiles. Her work has been featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and The New York Times.

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