Sandy Hutchens, a resident of Toronto, Canada served as President of Tenant’s Rights Company Inc. in Toronto for more than ten years, where he held the principal duty of acting on behalf of the community as a legal emissary in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

For 12 years, Sandy Hutchens successfully represented the public against fraud and scam practices at Landlord and Tenant Board, Small Claims Court, Traffic Court, and Family Court. Granted consent to represent matters concerning landlord and tenant disputes, Sandy Hutchens led more than one thousand landlord and tenant trials, where he represented both tenants and landlords in a myriad of cases before the Divisional Court as well as the Court of Appeal. He also obtained costs on behalf of his clients in both Ontario courts, on an agent/client basis equal to a lawyer/client basis. Sandy Hutchens holds distinction of having 12 reported decisions in the Ontario Court of Justice.

Sandy Hutchens spends much time in the community and has a keen interest in helping people with job loss issues that have come about as a result of the economic downturn. He even created a web site which addressess career issues including the psychological effects of downsizing and downgrading. His goal is to empower men and women in the act of planning and shaping their career paths. Just as a burgeoning business will create a business plan in order to guide their actions, Sandy advises people to create “business plans” for their lives, elaborate mission statements, that includes what they want to be and what they want to become. Armed with this self-knowledge, a person can move ahead and weigh the merits of their decisions based on how they compare with their mission statements or “business plans.”

Another key and deeply personal passion for Sandy Hutchens is the promotion of cancer prevention. There are so many cancers that can be prevented through proper diet and wise living activities. He has created a blog which promotes the latest findings in research in these areas. He also blogs about current events in the world of cancer cure and cancer prevention. His cancer prevention blog has attracted attention from people who are interested in both alternative as well as conventional approaches to the disease. This interest has spilled over into his charitable works where he gives what he can to notable organization such as the Canadian Cancer Society.

One of Sandy Hutchens hobbies is the pulp detective fiction genre. Pulp magazines were cheap fiction magazines. They were published from about 1900 through to the ‘50s. The usual template was a 7” x 10” spined magazine printed on inexpensive stock featuring with ragged edges. Pulps were generally seven inches by ten inches, with about 128 pages.

The word “pulp” comes from the inexpensive wood pulp paper on which they were printed. Magazines printed on higher grade stock offering family content were usually called “glossies” or “slicks”. Pulps came into being after the “penny dreadfuls”, “dime novels”, and brief fiction magazines of the 1800’s. Many reputable writers wrote for the pulps, but the magazines are commonly and affectionately recollected for their hardboiled stories, and for their singular cover art. Pulp often featured graphic novel-length stories of heroe figures such as the Phantom Detective and The Shadow.

Pulp magazines generally paid authors smaller amounts than other markets; this was both a good and a bad thing as many authors who later became famound got their starts in the pulps before they were well known enough to sell to better markets. Also authors whose careers were tanking or who needed to make a few quick bucks could sell their stories to the pulps. Many amateur authors were so happy to see their stories in print were happy to be paid small amounts.

Sandy Hutchens, as a hobbyist, refers with special affection to the “career pulp writers”, who were able to produce vast amounts of prose on a regular basis. The novelist Sinclair was producing about 10,000 words a day 24/7 for the pulps, with the help of 2 stenographers. Pulps often had their writers use numerous nom del plumes so that they could use more than one story by the same author in the same issue.