Sandra Bashaw
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Sandra Bashaw was born in Dayton, Ohio where she has mostly lived except for a decade or so she spent out west. Dayton is the small midwestern city which provided the prototype for her novel, Sight Unseen: Emma’s House. Sandra’s had a lifelong love of writing and music, beginning with a childhood passion for both books and the ukulele. She is a songwriter, guitarist, working musician, and recording artist.
As a composer, she received a regional Emmy in 2015 in the category of Musical Composition/Arrangement. As happened for many performing musicians, the pandemic shifted her efforts to the more solitary pursuit of writing. Her novel, Sight Unseen: Emma’s House is part family saga, part romance, part supernatural feminism. But the undercurrent of the tale tells of liminal space, archetypes, walking between the worlds, and justice. “I’m drawn to outsiders: seekers, rebels, unorthodox lovers, artists, and also goddesses. I’m deeply curious about that realm which I am convinced lies behind our daily reality. I got a glimpse of it when I ran into Áine in Ireland.” 
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Sight Unseen: Emma's House
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Family Saga, Feminist, Supernatural
This is a tale told in two eras. In 2015, writer Emma MacLaine moves to a new town and impulsively decides to buy and restore a Victorian-era house. When the restoration activates long-dormant energies from 1911, Emma turns to her new friends for help, to find a way to end the chaos. She learns how to walk between two worlds: the everyday and the otherworld, the past and the present. Emma works together with these friends and some otherworldly entities, to clear the house of psychic residue from the past, and redress injustice which has endured for 100 years. 
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