Amy Carolyn Conner, born in Cheyenne, WY, grew in Jackson, MS, and completed her BA in philosophy and ethics with honors at Newcomb College of Tulane University after an interval at The Yorkshire Riding Center in Harrogate, England, acquiring horse-training skills. She married Zachary Casey, a native New Orleanian, and settled in New Orleans for a few months before Casey moved the family to Singapore, a professional relocation. They had two children, Fionn and Rue Casey before they divorce. Her work history includes (but is not limited to) jobs as runway model, private investigator, horse trainer/riding instructor, oriental rug and antique sales woman, legal secretary, executive assistant, and t-shirt designer.
From 1986 to 2006, she was part-owner with Casey of the world’s largest alligator farming concern and during that time worked in the skin business with Hermes in Paris, Gucci in Milan and other high-end designers of premium luxury strap goods. During this period, Ms. Conner often traveled in Europe to promote the business and fell in love with Paris and the French people. During their marriage, Ms. Conner has in lived in New Orleans and Covington, a New Orleans suburb for most of her adult life, except for a brief period in Jackson in the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina. She began writing in earnest at age 50, realizing “I could not be a horse-trainer forever.” The Right Thing, published in Spring, 2014, is her second novel.
About the Book
The Right Thing is a story about friendship and what we owe the people we love and how to navigate compromise and principle. The Right Thing is also a midnight road trip to the New Orleans’ Fairgrounds Race Track, a dog-napping, a one-night stand, and an evening spent in the trailer of a transsexual. It’s a southern country lane with potholes, twists, and turns on the way to an inevitable yet satisfying ending. For every woman who loved Thelma and Louise and Jane Austen and Harper Lee, The Right Thing is a literary romp you won’t want to miss.