by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 13, 2020 | Appalachian, Reading, Waiting
Well, no one guessed the title of my new story, but Connie Porter Saunders and Eleanor Mercer came closest with The Right Kind of Love. So what’s the new title? The story features Creed and Delphy Raines–a husband and wife living in Randolph County, WV,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 10, 2020 | Appalachian, Reading, Waiting, Writing
It seems like When Silence Sings JUST released and here it is time to look ahead to my new story for 2020. And I’m loving the title and the spectacular cover. I’ll start sharing the cover image more widely once the story is available for preorder, but in...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 3, 2020 | Reading, Writing
It’s sort of required for an author to feel really attached to her characters. I mean, if I don’t feel strongly about them–why should you? So Perla, Casewell, Judd, Fleeta, Colman, Serepta . . . they’re closer than family. But what I...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 5, 2019 | Appalachian, holidays, Reading
Here’ in the mountains it’s getting to be the season for curling up with hot cocoa and a good book while the temperatures drop outside. And what could be better than a Christmas story? Oh wait–I have one of those! My novella, A Shot at Love (the one...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 4, 2019 | Reading, Writing
While my latest story technically releases tomorrow, we held the launch party for it at Sassafras on Sutton–a wonderful bookstore in Black Mountain, NC–yesterday. While I regularly speak in front of groups ranging from 10 to 200 for my job, talking about...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 31, 2019 | Reading, Writing
I know Thursdays usually focus on something Appalachian, but hey, When Silence Sings is an Appalachian story, so that counts. Right? Thanks to everyone who entered to win a copy of my sixth novel by sharing what you’d like six of. It was such fun reading and...