Shells Chats with author Stephen North

What's your background with writing?I remember writing my first story in 6th grade or 7th grade. I was reading C.S. Forester's historical British Navy stories featuring Horatio Hornblower, and I wrote a story about a British ship trying to capture a Spanish ship called the Manila Galleon. Looking back now, I realize that I had no idea that 'Manila' referred to Manila in the Phillippines.A few