by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 26, 2017 | Appalachian, History
Today I’m headed to Charleston, WV, the capital of my home state, to participate in the WV Book Festival. I’m not only excited to be going as an author, but also because Charleston is a great city with an exceptionally beautiful capital building. And turns...
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 | 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...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 9, 2017 | Appalachian, History
I keep stumbling upon stories that make me think I may have to buckle down, do the research, and write a Civil War novel one of these days. Last week I learned about Sarah Brandon, known as the “Mother of the Civil War.” I don’t think it’s the...
