by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
In less than eight weeks, the final installment in the Appalachian Blessings series will be out and about–in stores, in readers’ hands, in the WORLD. I’m excited, but I’m nervous, too. Is it any good? Will readers like it? Will the story touch...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
In less than two months the third and final (for now!) installment in the Appalachian Blessings series will be in my hands and, hopefully, in some of yours! To celebrate, we’re holding a book launch party Appalachian-style. It’ll be in a barn, there will...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
I make it a point not to talk politics on my blog. I talk about books, family, faith, Appalachia, and a few other more or less related topics. But not politics. Especially these days. And today I’m still not writing about politics–I’m writing about...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last week Until the Harvest won a Selah Award for Historical Fiction. Yay! In the course of the evening, a friend turned around and snapped a photo of me back at the table holding my award. Then she tweeted the photo out and it got lots of shares and likes....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Growing up on the family farm in French Creek, WV, I never thought of the area as what you might call sophisticated. We were pretty much plain, country folk. Going to see a traveling ballet company dance the Nutcracker (one night only!) at the high school was pretty...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
I think if you ask just about any writer why they write, you’d get some version of, “I can’t not write.” We’re the sort of people who live for story, who want to tell the rest of the world what we’ve seen and experienced....
