by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 21, 2011 | Reading
Check out the latest issue of Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine. The theme is “serving Appalachia” and I have an article–The Shepherd of the Hills–about the founder of the children’s home where I work. I LOVE this magazine. It has...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 14, 2011 | Reading, Waiting
If you talk about marketing these days, you talk about branding. I’ve done quite a bit of branding in my “real” jobs in public relations and marketing. But branding myself as an author? Yikes! One of the elements of a brand can be (doesn’t have...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 30, 2011 | Reading
I just finished The Measure of a Lady by Deeanne Gist, who writes historical romance. Set in the early, gold rush days of San Francisco, I get the feeling that Gist is an impeccable researcher. But what really appealed to me about this novel is how real it is....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 21, 2011 | Friends, Miracles, Reading
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 18, 2011 | Friends, Reading
To follow-up on Wednesday’s book-giving post, I thought I’d ask you to share the best book-gift you’ve ever received. I follow agent Rachelle Gardner’s blog and she hit on this topic last week. It’s a great idea, so I’m stealing it....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 16, 2011 | Friends, Reading, Waiting
It’s getting to be that gift-giving time of year again. I mostly love shopping for friends and family, but there are always one or two folks who are impossible to gift. Luckily, there are always books. And not just great novels, but cookbooks and biographies and...
