by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
I appreciated all the folks who commented on last week’s review of Julie Cantrell’s powerful and moving novel, The Feathered Bone. And the winner of free a copy is . . . pattymh2000! Patty, e-mail your mailing address to salt96@charter.net and I’ll...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
In my third novel–A Tapestry of Secrets–my heroine is a quilt artist. Her mother (Margaret) and grandmother (Perla) are traditional quilters, but Ella makes pieces meant to be hung on the wall or displayed on a table. My inspiration came from my own...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Julie Cantrell is brave. Are you brave enough to read her latest book? The Feathered Bone is amazing and difficult and heartbreaking and beautiful. If you like fun romances, or meticulous historicals, or impossible-to-guess mysteries–this book may not be for...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
The new year is upon us and there’s probably a significant group out there that’s already given up on new year’s resolutions. I resolved years ago not to make resolutions and have stuck to it admirably. But we DID celebrate January 1 the way so many...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 11, 2016 | Family, Friends, Waiting
I was driving to a speaking engagement Sunday morning, listening to the radio. Every other story was about how no one had won the US Powerball Lottery which meant the next drawing–on Wednesday–would likely reach $1.3 billion. I don’t play the lottery...