Although it’s not unusual for a husband and wife to both be authors, and it isn’t unusual for them to write in different genres, this is the first couple that I’ve had the pleasure to interview.
Gene and Sandy Hill are retired from their workaday world but that certainly doesn’t mean they have let their world slow down much. They like to travel, for one thing, and they also have a nonprofit called Freedom13 — their motto is “No child trafficked, ever!”
The Hills speak at schools and with youth groups to warn and teach the kids how to recognize and avoid these dangerous situations and people. If you would like to contact them about this, go to Freedom13.org.
Now about their books: Sandy Hill is the author of “Chick Heather’s New Neighborhood, New Friends.” Inside is a workbook to go with it. The storybook can either be a read-to-me book or can be read by a beginning reader. It is also meant to help the child who has recently moved to a new home and shows them the way that the character Heather uses it to cope.
The workbook is called “Chick Heather’s New Neighborhood: Read, Imagine, Draw.” This book contains the same story as the first book, but on the opposite page is an empty frame so the child reader can draw a picture from the suggestions at that bottom of the page.
Example: The suggestions to draw the first picture is of Heather’s bedroom, a picture of Mommy Hen and a picture of Heather in her hat as she gets ready to go out. Each new page gives hints and suggestions on what to draw and also continues the story.
To purchase either of these books (or other books by Sandy Hill), go to www.sandyhill-writer.com/p/books.html. All profits from these books go to the nonprofit Freedom13 movement to end child trafficking.
Gene Hill, the other partner in this team, is a retired computer executive. His book is set in Mexico and is about the future of identifying people — the embedded chip on their person, of course — and computers and self-driving cars.
The blurb on the back of the book says “Detective Rameriz of Policia de Acapulco must use his wits and digital assistants to prove who is killing wealthy people and determine if and how the International Monetary Fund digital currency has been breached.” This story is full of things that computers can do and how it both helps and hinders in the search for the bad guys.
This was a fun read and certainly opens up what the future might hold for us. To purchase this book, search online the complete title: “Cryptocurrencies, Self-driving Cars & Murder.”
Happy reading.
Quote for the day: “The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.” — Harper Lee
Donna Lee Anderson welltoldtales@aol.com.
