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Appalachian Thursday – Fleeting Summer
I've loved Robert Frost's poem Nothing Gold Can Stay since I first saw The Outsiders movie. I think that's the hardest I've ever cried at a movie. The poem is so gorgeously bittersweet. To me, it's always spoken of that moment in autumn when nature is at it's most...
The Christmas Heirloom – Release Day Eve
Tomorrow is the official release day for The Christmas Heirloom: Four Holiday Novellas of Love Through the Generations. (Click on the image to the right if you want to order it!) Release days have that first-day-of-school feeling. Did I pick the right outfit? Will I...
Appalachian Thursday – Firearms
My latest novella--A Shot at Love--releases next Tuesday. It's part of The Christmas Heirloom, a collection of stories that follows a piece of jewelry from Regency England to modern-day America. Now, these are romances--sweet stories of finding true love. But when you...
What do YOU write??
I've just returned from the ACFW Conference (American Christian Fiction Writers). It's always fun to hang out with other writers not to mention my agent and editor. But there's a certain question folks ask each other over and over again . . . "So what do you write?"...
Appalachian Thursday – Old Timey Recipes
My friend Valerie recently gave me a treasure. It's a copy of the 8th edition of Old Timey Recipes from 1975 as collected by Phyllis Connor. Inside the front cover someone wrote, "West Virginia, August 1976." Since I would have been five years old then, I think I can...
A Shot at Love – Releasing 10.2.2018
I've been sharing about the upcoming release of The Christmas Heirloom. It's a novella collection with four generations of stories from Kristi Ann Hunter, Karen Witemeyer, me, and Becky Wade. We each wrote stand-alone stories tied together by a Luckenbooth brooch...
Appalachian Thursday – Hurricanes
Having lived on the coast of South Carolina I've had more experience with hurricanes than I like. We actually moved to the mountains of western North Carolina in large part because of flooding from Hurricane Floyd in 1999. But the mountains are not immune from the...
Appalachian Blessings on Sale
Leading up to the release of The Christmas Heirloom on October 2, my publisher has put some of my books on sale. You can currently get the digital editions of Miracle in a Dry Season for $0.99, Until the Harvest for $1.99, and A Tapestry of Secrets for $2.99 (or...
