by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 5, 2013 | Family, Food, Miracles
My baby brother and his family visited us this past weekend. For a childless couple set in their ways it was an adjustment! But we loved it and now the house is SO quiet. On Saturday night, after supper, we were in the family room relaxing and talking when the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 2, 2013 | Appalachian, Friends, Miracles, Reading
There are generally two schools of fiction writers–plotters and pantsers. Plotters plan their novels–they know more or less what happens each step of the way and then write from plot point to plot point. I’ve seen calendars and spreadsheets and...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 31, 2013 | Appalachian, Family, Friends, Nature
At work recently we had a “Pool Olympics” for the kids in the ministry. Staff took those who wanted to go to the public pool in town and had a series of games for them to play complete with prizes. It was a broiling July afternoon perfect for the pool and...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 29, 2013 | Food, Miracles, Waiting
Each of my novels takes one of Christ’s miracles and puts it in the hands of a mere mortal. None of them do miracles intentionally, they just seem to have this ability that manifests itself when the time is right. And so I’ve read and reread the accounts...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today I’m posting over at the awesome Married . . . With Fiction site hosted by writing friends Heather Day Gilbert, Jennifer Major, and Becky Doughty. Swing on by if you’d like to hear my story of “making it” in the publishing world.