Ask the Author: Sandra Hutchison
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Sandra Hutchison
I think Dori is pretty unfiltered. That's probably just my style. Hope you enjoy Bardwell's Folly. I think your review was eminently fair. I can understand wanting to leave that relationship where it was. Plenty of my friends agree with you. My mom, too. :) I was inspired to that resolution by Alice Sebold's riveting memoir "Lucky." Like Sebold, Molly (eventually) takes charge of her own healing. And I also wanted to show that relationships are often more complex than outsiders -- who are even quicker to judge today than they were back then -- might assume. In any case, thanks so much for reviewing! It's always good to hear what people think.
Sandra Hutchison
Mostly just the one I'm writing. Trying hard to get it finished before the fall semester begins.
Sandra Hutchison
Patricia, send me an email at sandrahutchison (at) sheerhubris.com and we'll figure something out so you can read it. I took it off sale awhile ago because I didn't think it was earning enough sales or reviews to justify the product management involved.
Sandra Hutchison
Thanks for asking, Tabitha. (I think!) I'm about three quarters of the way through the first draft and taking next semester off to finish it ... so, it depends on how long that and the revisions take. It's called "Bardwell's Folly: A Love Story" and it's about the Yankee daughter of a famous Southern writer coming to terms with her heritage via her own social media disaster. (The first two chapters are in the end of "Missionary Dating," which is free for a few days more.)
Sandra Hutchison
I don't mind it not being a question. Thrilled to hear that you loved it. Thanks for letting me know. (And it's okay for me to respond here, but generally frowned upon in the case of reviews -- so, brilliant move!)
Sandra Hutchison
The only one. Are you going there Tuesdays? I didn't see the last time I tried to get in the habit again.
Sandra Hutchison
I had heard that a man in our neighborhood had married his teenage babysitter after his wife died (no, that's not a spoiler). I was a teenager myself at the time, and I wondered how that had happened and whether it was appropriate and even whether he really loved her or just wanted someone to keep house and take care of the kids. I didn't know either of them, but eventually that question worked its way out into a short story called "The Physicist and the Housekeeper," which I never published and later expanded into this novel. My younger self had been leery of dealing with the inevitable sexual aspects of this except in the most roundabout way, but years later I was ready to take them on. I'd also read Alice Sebold's compelling memoir Lucky, which gave me a path for my heroine that I might not have taken otherwise.
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