Post by noc on Jan 2, 2007 22:24:33 GMT -5
I really like her mysteries, but her recent books are about, sigh, NASCAR. I really just don't get NASCAR, so I may have to read one of her books. One her mysteries is about anthrax. I think "She walks these hills" is my favorite. Just pulled this off Amazon and it made me laugh (Sharyn's most recent post)
Grassroots Saints and Mountain Memories
8:28 AM PDT, July 12, 2006
Thanks for checking on me. People generally want to know when I'm going to write another book set in the Southern mountains, and I am working on it, I promise, but right now my brain is too full of leaded gas to get very far.
Back in April I finished another novel set in the world of stock car racing, so it's fair to say that the enchantment of racing has not yet worn off for me.
Writing St. Dale was such a wonderful experience. On July 9, the Appalachian Writers Association named St. Dale its Book of the Year (Novel), but the world can keep the Pulitzer, and the National Book Award, for all I care. I will never regret having written that book. The Earnhardts liked it. The movie rights sold to a really nice fellow. And-- I'm cell-phone buddies with a winner of the Daytona 500, and hanging out with fascinating people that I never knew existed.
After spending my adolescence writing term papers and avoiding any and all proms, I am now spending more time in the real world, instead of behind the computer screen, jumping hills at 100 mph with a race car driver on Virginia backroads, and having glorious adventures. You can imagine how frightened my teenage children are to contemplate what I might do next
May all women in their 40s have the ability to frighten their teenage children. I remember my mother biking across various states, then clamoring around the Continental Divde and the Blue Ridge trails on hikes. Totally confused all her children. If you want good kids, you should run away from home from time to time (but have eyes in the back of your head or friends who will spy on your kids so they think you do). Now that I'm in my 40s, even with a pretty colorful and fancy free life, I can really relate from time to time with the above. Even if I don't like one of my favorite authors switching to NASCAR from mysteries and the Scotch/Irish characters. Sorry to digress.
Grassroots Saints and Mountain Memories
8:28 AM PDT, July 12, 2006
Thanks for checking on me. People generally want to know when I'm going to write another book set in the Southern mountains, and I am working on it, I promise, but right now my brain is too full of leaded gas to get very far.
Back in April I finished another novel set in the world of stock car racing, so it's fair to say that the enchantment of racing has not yet worn off for me.
Writing St. Dale was such a wonderful experience. On July 9, the Appalachian Writers Association named St. Dale its Book of the Year (Novel), but the world can keep the Pulitzer, and the National Book Award, for all I care. I will never regret having written that book. The Earnhardts liked it. The movie rights sold to a really nice fellow. And-- I'm cell-phone buddies with a winner of the Daytona 500, and hanging out with fascinating people that I never knew existed.
After spending my adolescence writing term papers and avoiding any and all proms, I am now spending more time in the real world, instead of behind the computer screen, jumping hills at 100 mph with a race car driver on Virginia backroads, and having glorious adventures. You can imagine how frightened my teenage children are to contemplate what I might do next
May all women in their 40s have the ability to frighten their teenage children. I remember my mother biking across various states, then clamoring around the Continental Divde and the Blue Ridge trails on hikes. Totally confused all her children. If you want good kids, you should run away from home from time to time (but have eyes in the back of your head or friends who will spy on your kids so they think you do). Now that I'm in my 40s, even with a pretty colorful and fancy free life, I can really relate from time to time with the above. Even if I don't like one of my favorite authors switching to NASCAR from mysteries and the Scotch/Irish characters. Sorry to digress.