LH Hey, GatHeart, thanks so much for taking the time for this - its brilliant timing that this is going to go out in the last week of October, which is now otherwise known as DrabbletoberFest thanks to your amazing challenge. I hope you’re feeling really proud of the challenge you started, as it has been an incredible six weeks or so, with loads of new people pressing publish for the first time! GH Thank you! Honestly, I’m shocked and humbled at the outpouring of responses. There have been over 70 new stories and 10 new writers since I posted the DrabbletOberfest challenge on Sept. 8th, and it’s been great to have new Heybourne stories to read every day. I started writing Fathomless in June because there was no drabble series for Heybourne and I’m a big fan of ‘The Hour, the Spot, the Look, the Words’ by Courtney621, and wanted to write something in that vein. Then I kept getting so many fan requests for other story ideas, and since I was only posting once per week, I thought, why not ...

LH It's great to be interviewing you, Amanda, as we became friends through our shared love of Sanditon and fanfic, and you are fantastic support to loads of writers as well. It feels like most people who follow Heybourne fic will know you from your encouraging commenting on AO3! But I’m excited other people will get to know you more through this. So I didn’t know you before you started writing in the fandom, tell us how your love of Sanditon began? BL Well, I was relatively late to the party! My mum recommended Season One to me. I was pretty much Team Stringer, though, because I could never get past how patronising and angry Sidney was with Charlotte and Georgiana. And then, the way it ended, of course.  We saw it was cancelled, then renewed, and then I broke the news to my mum that her man Theo would not be back. She never recovered. I had love heart eyes for Colbourne after about a minute of him appearing on screen. I’m a sucker for a nerdy, hot recluse with kids. At first, I was...