AH I’m pretty honoured to get the gig for interviewing you, Louise. You have been an enormous support for me, personally and as a writer. We have all absolutely adored the interviews, a wonderful archive of the Sanditon FanFiction Writers, and now it is your turn… LH Why, thank you! It’s been so great to get to know what drives people’s love of writing Sanditon stories, and though there’s loads of overlaps of course - mostly around the love of Colbourne’s character, which isn’t surprising, and a… let’s call it ‘distaste’ for SP - there are differences too. And I’ve loved hearing about those and getting into what makes people tick. And also hearing from so many people that Heybourne drew them back into writing after decades, and some for the first time ever. For me it was that I hadn’t written fiction since I was in primary school - my first book was about Bob Squirrel and his woodland friends. It was illustrated and everything! All I wanted was to be a writer. Then I wrote poems as an ...

LH Thanks for taking the time to do this, Hoodie! I know you’ve been there for the full drama of everything, but let’s start by you telling us how your love of Sanditon began? H Well, I don’t think I quite count as “the full drama of everything” because I wasn’t here for the campaign!  I completely missed it!  But I was present from Season 1 onward.  During February, 2021, I was teaching (kindergarten!) online and we weren’t really going out much, so I subscribed to the Masterpiece add-on for Amazon Prime because I wanted to re-watch the 2006 Jane Eyre, which is my favorite adaptation of that novel.  After I did that, Sanditon came up in my list of suggestions.  I clicked play because what the hell else did I have to do during a pandemic?  I got to the end and yelled at my screen, “What The F*#$! That’s not how Jane Austen is supposed to end!”  I looked for Season 2 on Amazon.  Nothing.  I immediately googled “Sanditon season 2” and found out...