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| DOROTHY "DOT" HATFIELD |
I am a mother,
grandma, and “Great-Grandma Dot.” After years as a stay at home mom, I spent my
professional career working for non-profit agencies in Oklahoma, Texas, and
Tennessee. Though I am long past the age of retirement, I still enjoy working
at an education cooperative.
I have always
journaled. In my early 60s, I took a course which piqued my interest in writing
short fiction. When one of the stories still seemed incomplete after I had
written the allotted word count, I decided, with the help of my critique group,
that it needed to be a book.
Thus was born The Last to Know, a recounting of a
woman’s first year of widowhood and her spiritual coming of age.
A couple of years
later, I took an old story I’d heard from my Mother-in-Law and began to think “what
if . . .?” This musing became To Find a
Home, the tale of a young girl looking for her birth parents.
For years, I had
dabbled with the account of my grandfather’s life. The sheriff in a small town
in Oklahoma, he was shot in a bank robbery. The story was engaging – but there
were so many details I didn’t know. I couldn’t imagine how to write it as creative
non-fiction. Finally, dubbing it a novel based on a true story, I completed An Ordinary Day in 2014.
While I wouldn’t label
my novels Christian fiction, each of them has a faith-based lesson for the
protagonist that results in spiritual growth.
The Last to Know is set in current
times; To find a Home is set in the
Seventies, deliberately to avoid DNA; and An
Ordinary Day happened in 1928.
In between novels
I also have had a play (RIP, Emma Lou
Briggs) published and performed locally, a collection of short stories (Every Day a New Day) published, and,
most recently, a collection of essays from my blog (Did Anyone Read My Story?) released.
All my books are on
Amazon.com. You can visit my Author’s
page there at http://www.amazon.com/Dot-Hatfield/e/B004HL64I0.
Most are on
Kindle. And of course I have a stash in the back seat of my car.