Sandra Dallas is a New York Times bestselling author of nearly 20 adult novels, several children’s novels, and numerous works of nonfiction about Western subjects. Her work has won numerous awards and prizes including the Colorado Book Award and, in 2021, she was inducted into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame. A former bureau chief for Business Week magazine, Sandra lives in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado, with her husband.
SunLit: Tell us this book’s backstory – what’s it about and what inspired you to write it?
Sandra Dallas: I don’t remember why I wrote “Tough Luck” (the working title was “Finding Pa”), because I wrote it a dozen years ago or more. I was unsure about the ending, and my agent had questions. While we were talking, she suggested I write a Christmas quilt story, so I moved on to write “A Quilt for Christmas.”…