Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Along a Storied Trail”
When life gives you too much snow, make snow angels. One of my favorite snow scenes that I almost forgot about when I started thinking about sharing snow scenes from my books is from The Believer, my second Shaker story. In this book I wanted to share more about the Shakers’ history and beliefs. They were very rule centered. They had …
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” — John Burroughs I’ve known some Januarys where snow has been off somewhere to the north, where you could only find ice in the freezer, and winter coats were hardly …
While thinking about what I could post here tonight, I scrolled back through some of my December posts to see what I might have shared through the years about this or that Christmas memory. Through over 20 years of writing here on One Writer’s Journal, you have to know I’ve shared plenty. I was looking to try to be sure …
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. ~Carre Otis The Kentucky Book Festival was great yesterday. I had a nice position for my book table in the “circle” as the helper told me when I arrived yesterday morning. My table companion was a …
Do you remember Preacher Rowlett from my book, Along a Storied Trail? Before that book set in Appalachia with history of the packhorse librarians came out a few years ago, I let Preacher tell a Bible story here on One Writer’s Journal. Since I’ve been doing some features on some of my published books, I invited him back for a …
One of the things I’ve enjoyed when I head to the hills for a new story is being able to hear my characters talking. I grew up country. Not mountain. But many of the expressions I’ve come across when researching for my Appalachian stories rang with familiarity for me because I’d heard them pert-nigh (pretty near) all my life. I …
On Thursday, I had the fun chance to take over the Avid Readers of Christian Fiction Instagram page for a day. Sort of a writer for the day. I shared about my writing with an emphasis on my new book, The Song of Sourwood Mountain. I had earlier been interviewed on Writer’s Desk. You can check out that interview post …
The Appalachian Mountains are full of stories. The people there are full of personality and the settings can be beautiful and sometimes challenging. If you’ve read any of my stories, you know most of them have Kentucky history. So, my Appalachian stories have Kentucky settings, but the Appalachian Mountains run through several states. There are many stories that writers can …
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #11 Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 3/14 at noon MST with Stop #1 …
Update: My publisher made a mistake on the date they sent me about the eBook sale. It won’t be effective until later in the month although right now on Amazon the price is as I show. That isn’t going to last. So if you do go out and look for the books, make sure the price is $2.99. If …