by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 25, 2021 | books, Memories
One of my favorite things to do when I was a kid was to get out Mom’s button tin. It was a round tin chock full of random buttons. The colors! The textures! Some were plain while others were glossy and glitzy. I remember sparkly jet buttons and big, flat...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 18, 2021 | books, History
Several of my stories have been set in 1930s West Virginia. And there’s LOTS of great history from that era to draw from for ideas. But some history I won’t attempt to spin into one of my tales. And that goes for the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell who was hanged...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 8, 2021 | Appalachian, books, Reading
I’ve written before about my mixed feelings regarding novel contests. And yet, here we are again, with awards season kicking off and yes, I have entered a few contests. Including the Selah Awards at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. I like...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 4, 2021 | books, History, West Virginia
The cover of my new story (releasing December 2021) is out and about! Whatcha think? Here are a few highlights that make this cover special for me: The button. Sulley is a water dowser (or so he claims). And when he finds a long lost button, people start to think...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 1, 2021 | books
If you subscribe to my newsletter, you had an opportunity to win one of two early copies of The Finder of Forgotten Things releasing in December. I revealed the new cover to subscribers and asked them to come up with a single word to describe how the image made them...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 11, 2021 | books, Family, History
West Virginia has produced some amazing characters. And while I typically write Twentieth Century historical fiction, that doesn’t keep me from chasing rabbit trails further into the past. Like reading about Betty Zane . . . When she was very young, her family...