Ask the Author: Lynne Hugo
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Lynne Hugo
I've just started WE ARE CALLED TO RISE by Laura McBride and it's absolutely wonderful. For that reason, her new release 'Round Midnight is already on my summer reading list. Janet Benton's May 16 release, LILLI DE JONG--such incredible advance praise!--is another one I can't wait to read. I'm also reading Randy Susan Meyers' THE WIDOW OF WALL STREET. And I'm especially eager for the July release of Laura Harrington's A CATALOG OF BIRDS. She is such a brilliant writer!
Lynne Hugo
I have, all my life, spent lots of time on outer Cape Cod. But it wasn't until I happened, in the late 90's, to stay--during my annual writing retreat-- right in a certain spot (the Indian Neck section of Wellfleet harbor) that I really saw oyster and clams being farmed in the shallows of beautiful Cape Cod bay. The racks and cages are only visible for an hour before and an hour after dead low tide. I was out walking the beach and became intrigued. Writers ask a lot of questions! I did, and was fascinated. I ended up making friends with some of the sea farmers (correctly called aquaculturists) and when I heard about a lawsuit to shut them down, of course I wanted to hear more. I became close to one of the women aquaculturists, and went back over a period of years, learning a lot about the life of the oystermen. I researched the lawsuit, which was filed by the owner of a vacation home who was there just six weeks a year and didn't want to look at the oyster cages at low tide. He said it spoiled his view. The outcome of the lawsuit was so bizarre, so unpredictable, so dramatic, that I knew I'd base my next novel on it.
Lynne Hugo
I am so sorry! Obviously I'm really late answering this question--I didn't see that it was there. I'll do better. I have a new novel coming out in the Spring of 2016; the title is REMEMBER MY BEAUTIES. It's set on a small Kentucky horse farm and one of the themes--a favorite of mine--is the healing power of the human/animal relationship. In this novel I take a look at marriage, drug addiction, and the parent/child bond, too. I'll be working on the final edits for that this spring. But, in the meantime, I'm immersed in and having a wonderful time with the third draft of another novel. It's titled THE TESTAMENT OF HAROLD'S WIFE, and the elderly narrator is a spunky, funny widow. (Watch out for her! She'd never confide her plan to take up her husband's revenge scheme against a drunk driver to her son; her best friends and confidants are her cat and the chickens on her southeastern Indiana farm.)
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