Biography

Cynthia “Cindy” Elder is a novelist and poet. Her historical fiction series, Tales of the Sea, was published by Holand Press in 2025. The two books, The Journey Begins and The Drumbeats of War, are based on hundreds of pages of previously unpublished letters, ship’s logs and personal journals from the mid-1800s. The story follows the lives of a seafaring family from West Barnstable during the final chapter of the Great Age of Sail and the years leading up to and through the Civil War. Kirkus Reviews calls Tales of the Sea “a well-developed novel that uses copious historical sources to vividly bring its characters and setting to life.”

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