by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 15, 2014 | Appalachian, Reading, Waiting
My publisher recently ran a contest to win Advanced Reading Copies (ARCs) of Miracle in a Dry Season. It’s been fun to see the winners popping up on my Facebook page to say thanks. But do you realize what this means? People I don’t know can now read my...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 12, 2014 | Food, Friends, Love, Miracles
I’m blessed to have a lovely group of writing friends here in Western North Carolina. We get together periodically to eat, laugh, and talk all things writing (and men, and children, and LIFE). Not long ago, our fearless leader Yvonne Lehman came to us with the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 8, 2014 | Appalachian, Family
Last week I wrote about being descended from David Phillips whose father-in-law fought in the Revolutionary War. The same booklet that reassures me I am, indeed, a Daughter of the American Revolution, also offers up some interesting tidbits about other ancestors...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 5, 2014 | Family
I’m digging into revisions on my second novel. One of my tasks is to make a character a little less unlikable. My editor commented that flawed is fine, but that sometimes the character dips a little too far into, well, being a jerk. I’m actually kind of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 1, 2014 | Appalachian, Family
I’m the seventh generation to grow up on our family farm back in West Virginia. There was David Phillips, Horace Phillips, David Phillips, Jane Phillips Loudin, Rex Loudin, Larry Loudin, and then me. My nieces and nephews aren’t currently living on the...
