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Buy a Book, Get a Blessing
The final book in the Appalachian Blessings series is about to release! I'm s0 excited and so grateful to everyone who has invested in purchasing my stories. I know there are plenty of ways to spend dollars and when someone decides to dedicate hard-earned funds to one...
Appalachian Thursday–Nothing but a Tease!
It's less than a month until the final book in the Appalachian Blessings series releases. Which means I'm in the midst of promotions! Tomorrow my publisher is launching some great sales of books #1 and #2 and I'm going to have a special surprise for anyone who sends...
The Least of These – A (not quite) Book Review
I'm predisposed to like anything Chris Fabry writes. 1) He's a West Virginian, and 2) He's a fantastic writer. But putting my predilection aside, The Promise of Jesse Woods is a fantastic book. I knew kids like Jesse when I was growing up--the kids so poor the poor...
Appalachian Thursday–Traffic Jam
People love to complain about traffic. They have difficult commutes. People don't know how to drive. Everyone's blood pressure is shooting sky high. My commute to work includes one traffic light. I can go another way if I'm itching for a little congestion or need to...
An Appalachian Fourth of July
Back home in West Virginia there was always a bean supper at Lucille’s for the Fourth of July. George and Lucille were first cousins to my dad and they had a little, white house up on the ridge above the church. Each year, Lucille would organize the event with a big...
Appalachian Thursday–Blessings
It's been a good book week for me. Early reviews are out for A Tapestry of Secrets from RT Book Reviews as well as Publishers Weekly, I got my first copies of Tapestry in the mail, and Until the Harvest was nominated for a Carol Award. It's enough to make me feel like...
Of flood waters and persistent hope
These are hard days back home in WV. At least 25 people have died with 44 of the state's 55 counties recently or currently inundated with flood waters. Houses have been washed off their foundations, roads and bridges washed away, utilities are out. I'm fortunate that...
Appalachian Thursday – The Swimmin’ Hole
It's getting HOT in Western NC. Oh, not like out west with temperatures over 100, but we have been in the 90s and we are NOT used to that. Of course, we have the perfect antidote to hot, summer days in the mountains of Appalachia. The swimmin' hole. At home in WV,...
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