Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Along a Storied Trail”
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 …
I love reading a story that has a great guy in love with the absolutely right girl. I love writing about that kind of good guy – an old friend who becomes more than a friend by story’s end. I saw something this week about romance tropes in stories. There’s the bad boy character who always seems to draw girls …
I’m sorry I’m late posting the last installment of my Random Line Game. I know this is Thursday and not Wednesday, but I’ve been off the grid up in a little of the Appalachian area Aunt Perdie loved here in Kentucky. I had a few days to enjoy the beauty of the hills with the fall decorated trees covering the …
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold. Proverbs 22:1 (NKJV) It’s a first Sunday when I usually like to post some sort of devotional, but every idea that came to mind seemed to be something I might have already posted on some other first Sunday. So, when I happened on …
Sometimes you just need to take a few hours out of your busy life to meet a real lady. That’s what I did this week and what a blessing that was. A few months ago, a friend told me she knew a woman who was a little girl in the mountains when the packhorse librarians were riding out on the …
Yesterday, April 27th, was National Tell a Story Day. Don’t ask me how you get something named a National Day because I don’t know. But every day has a few national somethings. Sometime last week it was World Book Day. Then there was Speak like Shakespeare Day. Naturally, we all just pay attention to those days that catch our interest …