by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 9, 2017 | Appalachian, History, Love, Reading
I try to keep up with books set in Appalachia, so I was excited when I saw that fellow Baker Publishing Group author Ann Gabhart was writing a book about the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in the 1940s. These were women who went into remote hills and hollers as...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 5, 2017 | Appalachian, Hiking, Nature, Thistle
Mud boots, gum boots, rain boots, rubbers, wellies, or, you know, plain ole rubber boots. I don’t suppose they’re uniquely Appalachian, but they certainly are ubiquitous to every mountain farm I’ve ever set foot upon. Some evenings, when I’m...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 2, 2017 | Appalachian, Waiting
The Sound of Rain officially releases on November 7, which means it will likely be available a little earlier than that (it’s often in book stores and on Amazon a week or so early). Which means I’m getting pretty eager to introduce you to Judd and Larkin!...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 28, 2017 | Appalachian, Hiking, Nature
It’s officially autumn. October arrives this weekend. The days are cooler, the nights make an extra quilt welcome. I love this time of year. Maybe it’s the bittersweet way nature fades from lush green, to russet and gold, and then to brown and grey. And,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the great pleasures of writing books is inventing heroes. Instead of swooning over other writer’s leading men, I get to build my own. The hero of The Sound of Rain releasing in just over a month, is Judd Markley. I was thinking the other day about just...
