Sandy Hill Shares and Discusses Her Four Historical Fiction Books and One Mystery
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In this episode 75, we visit with Sandy Hill, author of five novels, four historical fiction books and one mystery.
Sandy worked for many years as an editor for The Charlotte Observer and is a lifelong reader, who wrote her first short story at age 10. Growing up poor in Pennsylvania in a small, rural town informed her work, particularly her novel “The Blue Car,” a coming of age story set in the North Carolina foothills that deals with difficult choices and the courage to stand up for what is right.
Although “Deadline for Death” was Sandy’s first novel, her favorite novel is “Tangled Threads,” set in a turn-of-the-century Piedmont cotton mill village. She became inspired by “From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers” at the Museum of the New South, and focused the book on the girls who worked in those textile mills.
About the Author
Sandy Hill is the author of five novels. Three of her four historical novels are set in North Carolina and one in Pennsylvania — and she has one “gentle” murder mystery, “Deadline for Death,” set in Charlotte.
Sandy has always been fascinated with language, having learned Braille, sign language and most recently, Spanish. She is a lifelong volunteer, starting with being an assistant Brownie leader at age 16, and ranging from reading to the blind to her current volunteer work of tutoring adults in English as a second languages and helping people become U.S. citizens through International House and the Public Library. She grew up in Pennsylvania, skating on frozen ponds and competed in skating as an adult and tae kwon doe. She’s a member or former member of Women Executives, Charlotte Friends of Jung, the North Carolina and Metrolina Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the Ice Skating Institute of America, Mensa, Sisters in Crime, the Mystery Writers of America, the Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club and the Charlotte Writers Club. She’s married to another novelist, Dennis Carrigan
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The books
Amazon page for “Tangled Threads:”
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Amazon page for “Kate and Delia”:
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Amazon page for “The Blue Car”:
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