Amy Sampson-Cutler’s tale of a woman bedeviled by her past life follows earlier spooky romance
WARWICK, N.Y. (Jan. 19, 2024) – Amy Sampson-Cutler has done it again. The Executive Manager at Mount Peter Ski Area, New York’s Family Mountain, has once more delved deeply into her creative side and authored a novel on life after death.
By day, during the colder months, Sampson-Cutler ensures that Mount Peter visitors enjoy snowy fun skiing, boarding and tubing on the slopes. At other times, she is Amy S. Cutler, author, crafting stories of the supernatural, horror and science fiction, and sometimes poetry.
Her latest work is To Have and to Hold, to Love and to Kill: An Agreement of Souls. The wildly imaginative novel tells of a woman in her 20s, struggling to recover from addiction while bedeviled by the consequences of a past life she can’t remember. She strives to get her life together, unaware that someone is out to kill her because of a deal she made following a terrible accident that killed her previous self and a young boy.
As her book blurb asks: Can an agreement made between two souls be broken, and how far will one soul go to keep a promise made in a desperate attempt to save the other?
“This novel was written last winter, sometimes a sentence or two at a time,” Sampson-Cutler said. “It is my greatest personal accomplishment so far. For the next one, I think I’ll stick to writing during the off season!”
Fellow writer Dan C. Gunderman, author of the novel Synod, praised Sampson-Cutler’s latest in a review, calling it, “A fast-moving, character-driven tale of spiritual reincarnation.”
The new literary endeavor follows Sampson-Cutler’s 2022 novel, A Shadow of Love, about a woman who moves into a haunted farmhouse and falls in love with the temporarily earthbound soul of a man who took his life a century earlier.
Another book by Sampson-Culter, Hide and Seek, delves into horror with a story of a serial killer. Her writing can be found, and her books purchased, at www.AmysHippieHut.com.
Having earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Goddard College, Cutler has published works in journals including Tales to Terrify, Wow! Women on Writing, The Pitkin Review, Wellness Universe and Elephant Journal.
Spinning her tales largely during the warmer weather, she scales back her writing goals in the late fall and winter, when Mount Peter opens. Sampson-Cutler began working various jobs at Mount Peter as a teenager and was hired full-time in 2004.
About Mount Peter
Mount Peter is located at 51 Old Mount Peter Road in Warwick, N.Y. Visitors may check the latest trail openings and conditions by calling the Mount Peter Snow Phone at (845) 986-4992. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.mtpeter.com to reserve a date. Also refer to the website for the snow report and live mountain webcam, as well as more information about the 2023-2024 season at Mount Peter.