As she prepared for her maiden voyage as an author, Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court Judge Gail S. Tusan set about the task with appropriately judicious deliberation: She carefully laid out her story in a detailed pr�cis, consulted frequently with a group of advisers (her “elves”) as she developed her story and attended writers’ workshops in Cape Cod, Mass., and Sapelo Island, Ga.
But, she says, she was unprepared for the degree of scrutiny that “Misjudged,” her literary account of the travails of a young superior court judge facing a ruthless political opponent, would meet as her courthouse colleagues look for similarities between the book’s fictional characters and real people in the Atlanta legal community.
