I was inspired by your post about Hugh Scott (having been both the Hugh and the You in that situation) and I spontaneously (almost involuntarily) found myself trying to find contact information for him to send him your story. The email I found is no longer functional, which is probably for the best since I should’ve asked your permission before doing that anyway. Have you ever gotten in touch with him?

thebibliosphere:

I thought it might be not working, as my own email to him never got through. As for contacting him in any other way, it’s proved nigh on impossible. I have to therefore assume he’s retired to spend time with his cats 🙂

FYI, the most recent thing I found after an extensive google search is that he was part of a consulting committee about authors in schools in 2013-2014. So at least until recently, he was doing exactly as you remembered @thebibliosphere.