by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 13, 2012 | Poetry
There is truth in the trailer park and honesty in the car on blocks. Starvin’ Marvin and “as seen on TV” live cheek by jowl with the likes of handmade quilts and apple butter; old-time music and the oral tradition. Some folks say it isn’t True, isn’t the way things...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 11, 2012 | Reading, Waiting
I recently read an article in Publishers Weekly by an author who opted NOT to read any of her book’s reviews for the first six months it was in print. At the end of six months she printed out 300 pages worth of reviews and read them ALL in one sitting. And what...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 9, 2012 | Friends
My novels are set in West Virginia and the surrounding Appalachian Mountains. I’m the seventh generation of my family to have lived on the WV farm where I grew up. I treasure my heritage and consider myself a West Virginian even though I now live in the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 6, 2012 | Reading
We were watching television last night and a commercial for a movie came on. As I watched it, I commented that the story was just a ripoff of Total Recall, a 1990 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Guess what? They’re remaking Total Recall. Now, I’m not...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 4, 2012 | Miracles, Reading, Waiting
I’ve been reading Washington’s Lady by Nancy Moser. Written from the first-person point of view of Martha Washington, it’s engaging, entertaining and not a little educational. And it’s giving me a new perspective on our country’s fight...
