by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
I have low blood pressure–really low. Which means I often feel light-headed when I stand (especially, say, after a marathon bout of novel-reading slouched in a big, comfy chair). No big deal, I’m used to it. Every once in a while it’s dramatic enough...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
School starts in my neck of the woods next week. When I was a kid that would’ve meant my barefoot days were nearly over for the year. Growing up on the farm, we pretty much took our shoes off on the last day of school and didn’t put them on again (except...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today I’m posting over at the awesome Married . . . With Fiction site hosted by writing friends Heather Day Gilbert, Jennifer Major, and Becky Doughty. Swing on by if you’d like to hear my story of “making it” in the publishing world.
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
It seems like readers are forever asking writers, “Is xxxx character you?” My published writing friends get this question, even I have gotten this question from my few pre-publication readers. My mom confessed to trying to figure out who ALL the characters...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
I read a comment from a newly married celebrity this weekend about how he and his spouse didn’t argue because they have the same goal–making each other happy. And I thought to myself, well, that doesn’t bode well. It sounds nice, right? Two people...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 26, 2013 | Appalachian, Family, Uncategorized
In my second novel a character visits the New River Gorge Bridge, playing “tourist” in WV. I drive over that bridge every time I travel between my home in NC and the family farm. I generally don’t give it a whole lot of thought other than to admire...
