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 What Snowstorm?Sharyn McCrumb and NASCAR/ARCA driver Adam Edwards, co-authors of the new novel Faster Pastor, braved a Groundhog Day snowstorm to present a program on their book at the Salem Kiwanis Club meeting at the Salem Civic Center. Appalachian Heritage Magazine 
The Winter Issue of "Appalachian Heritage Magazine" contains an excerpt from Sharyn McCrumb's forthcoming Ballad novel The Devil Amongst the Lawyers, which will be published by Thomas Dunne Books on June 22. The novel is set in Wise County, Virginia in 1935, and features the young Nora Bonesteel.For more information, visit http://community.berea.edu/appalachianheritage/  White Likker and Dirt TracksSharyn McCrumb and NASCAR/ARCA driver Adam Edwards, co-authors of the new novel Faster Pastor, presented a program at the Downtown Theatre in Mt. Airy, N.C. on Saturday, January 23rd, as part of the Mt. Airy Museum of Regional History's program "White Likker and Dirt Tracks," a celebration of the roots of stock car racing. The Songcatcher is #15 on The Charts! 
Sharyn McCrumb's novel The Songcatcher is #15 on "The Charts: a list of the Top 40 Musical novels of the past few decades," compiled by Kellie D. Brown, author of The Annotated Bibliography and Reference List of Musical Fiction.
Visithttp://coralpress.com/playlist/charts/category/top-40-rock-and-pop/ Writers Workshop  Faster Pastor co-author Adam Edwards joined Sharyn McCrumb at Center in the Square in Roanoke VA on November 17th to present a writers workshop session on the process of co-authoring a novel.They discussed the mechanics of collaboration in crafting a novel, reading excerpts from Faster Pastor to illustrate their points. The program was sponsored by the Roanoke Arts Council. Faster Pastor will be published in April 2010 by The Ingalls Publishing Group.)  From Sharyn McCrumbThe November/December 2009 issue of Blue Ridge Country Magazine contains an article on Civil War and other historical re-enactors by Sharyn McCrumb. In it, she interviews representatives of the OverMountain Men Trail Association, re-enactors, and Civil War historians, including Michael Hardy, who taught Sharyn how to shoot an 1841 Springfield muzzle loader during her research for Ghost Riders.  Flower MagazineSharyn is interviewed in the fall issue of Flower Magazine. (flowermag.com) She says, "Mostly I talk about wild plants and flowers in folklore. (There's a reason for that. The deer eat all my flowers, and I am such a bad gardener that I bought a salt lick to encourage them.)" 
Smoky Mountain Living MagazineSharyn McCrumb has a new short story "Settling Up" in the current issue of Smoky Mountain Living Magazine. Single copies can be ordered for $5.95 from: Smoky Mountain Living PO Box 629 Waynesville, NC 28786. St. Dale in Colleges and Secondary Schools  Sharyn McCrumb's novel St. Dale is being taught in colleges and secondary schools in six states as a supplementary text to Chaucer, or as a Southern novel in its own right. In November, she gave a program on using St. Dale as a text at the annual conference of the National Association of Teachers of English in San Antonio. To see her discussion of the cultural uses of a novel about NASCAR for English classes, see the paper on St. Dale.
Click here to learn more about lectures and workshops offered by Sharyn McCrumb. Sharyn Selected as 2008 Virginia Women in History Honoree 
Sharyn McCrumb was named a Virginia Woman of History at a reception on March 27, 2008 at the Libray of Virginia in Richmond. This honor, designed to recognize and honor the achievements of women who have made important contributions to Virginia and America, both past and present, recognized Sharyn McCrumb for her achievements in literature as a New-York Times best-selling Appalachian writer, who won the 2006 Library of Virginia People’s Choice Award and the AWA Book of the Year Award for her NASCAR-themed novel St. Dale. McCrumb’s other honors include: the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature given by the East Tennessee Historical Society; AWA Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature Award; the Chaffin Award for Achievement in Southern Literature; the Plattner Award for Short Story; and AWA’s Best Appalachian Novel. Hollywood Comes to the Blue Ridge 
A film of Sharyn McCrumb's novel The Rosewood Casket is currently in production with LizCat Films. Roberto Schaefer (at right, looking at a house on Route 42 just past Newport), who is making his directorial debut on The Rosewood Casket, was nominated for a British Academy Award for cinematography for the Johnny Depp movie Finding Neverland, and he worked as cinematographer on Monsters Ball with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton; The Kite Runner; and the recent James Bond film Quantum of Solace with Daniel Craig.Recent Articles by Sharyn McCrumb  Sharyn McCrumb's article on Tom Dooley (Tom Dula), originally published in Blue Ridge Country Magazine, has been reprinted in a new book: Making Notes Music in the Carolinas by Ann Wicker (Charlotte NC, Novello Press, 2008.) Click here for ordering information. In the article, "Bound to Die," Sharyn McCrumb and a school friend met in Wilkes County, North Carolina and spent the day on the trail of legendary mountain murderer Tom Dula, made famous by the folk song "Hang Down your Head, Tom Dooley." Sharyn and David visited the graves, examined the scenes in case, the site of the hanging in Statesville, and they spent the day trying to figure out what really happened to Laura Foster on May 25, 1866. Read the article on the Blue Ridge Country Magazine web site. Short Stories by Sharyn McCrumb are Featured in the Following New Publications: 
The Improbable Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes "The Vale of the White Horse," a short story by Sharyn McCrumb is featured in the anthology The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, edited by John Jospeh Adams. For more information, and for details about pre-ordering, go to http://www.johnjosephadams.com/sherlock-holmes/.  Poe -- 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe"Poe," a short story anthology of new stories in the Poe tradition, edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris, 1999) has been named one of the best books of the year by the web-site Count Gore. The anthology contains Sharyn McCrumb's short story "The Mountain House" (a somber convergence of Cherokee gods, north Georgia Yuppies, and NASCAR.) Congratulations to Ellen Datlow, who is a wonderful editor, and to all the amazing writers whose work was featured in this anthology. Poe one of the Best Books of the Year at Count Gore. CountGore.com By Ellen Datlow
Has appeared on the bestseller pages in both the December and January issues of Locus.
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