by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 12, 2017 | Appalachian, Family
I was winding down the other evening and came across an article link on Facebook with 40 things every mother and daughter should do together. Cool. I clicked. I got about 12 deep and gave it up. Several activities included drinking wine (Mom doesn’t drink). Most...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 9, 2017 | Appalachian, History, Love, Reading
I try to keep up with books set in Appalachia, so I was excited when I saw that fellow Baker Publishing Group author Ann Gabhart was writing a book about the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in the 1940s. These were women who went into remote hills and hollers as...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 5, 2017 | Appalachian, Hiking, Nature, Thistle
Mud boots, gum boots, rain boots, rubbers, wellies, or, you know, plain ole rubber boots. I don’t suppose they’re uniquely Appalachian, but they certainly are ubiquitous to every mountain farm I’ve ever set foot upon. Some evenings, when I’m...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 2, 2017 | Appalachian, Waiting
The Sound of Rain officially releases on November 7, which means it will likely be available a little earlier than that (it’s often in book stores and on Amazon a week or so early). Which means I’m getting pretty eager to introduce you to Judd and Larkin!...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 28, 2017 | Appalachian, Hiking, Nature
It’s officially autumn. October arrives this weekend. The days are cooler, the nights make an extra quilt welcome. I love this time of year. Maybe it’s the bittersweet way nature fades from lush green, to russet and gold, and then to brown and grey. And,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 18, 2017 | Appalachian, Family, Friends, History
Oh dear. As I hope most of you know, I write historical fiction. But not VERY historic. I’ve written as far back as the 1940s, which means when I want to do research I can often pick up the phone and just call someone who was alive then. But this past weekend I...
