by Becky Crabtree | Jul 19, 2024 | Sundry Notes
David Johnson, long-time local coach and fan of high school sports in Monroe County, WV, wrote a book and I helped! From the back cover: “The history of high school sports in Monroe County for the past hundred years is a rich story changing with the world it...
by Becky Crabtree | Sep 16, 2023 | Sundry Notes
The writing bug has returned! The research is well underway for a historical novel about two local frontier women and a second book, a futuristic view of small town life in an unnamed high school has several completed chapters. I so enjoy writing, both researched and...
by Becky Crabtree | Feb 12, 2022 | Sundry Notes, William B.Robertson Biography
The press release from University of Virginia Press:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Emily Grandstaff434-982-2932 | egrandstaff@virginia.edu “Civil rights literature has not always done a good job of showing how the protests of the sixties marked the beginning of the...
by Becky Crabtree | Jun 26, 2021 | Sundry Notes, William B.Robertson Biography
I have had friends, good friends, in every chapter of my life, but some are special, extraordinarily special. Last Tuesday, I lost the man who I have worked with for over two years as we wrote his life story. The final edits on his book were submitted last Thursday...
by Becky Crabtree | Feb 7, 2021 | Sundry Notes
Silver Goblet Press is premiering a new author, Terry Lee Martin, and a beautifully written fantasy, “Seeds of the Guardian,” the first of a series. We both participated in a writing workshop in historic Rugby, Tennessee several years ago led by author...
by Becky Crabtree | Apr 5, 2020 | Sundry Notes
Since August 2019, I have been working on a new book, a biography (even though I resolved to never write another after Dr. Dickason’s story was completed). Somehow I knew I was going to be asked to do this and I was just as sure that I would say no. I simply did...
by Becky Crabtree | Feb 3, 2019 | Pick Your Poison, Sundry Notes
I am happy to announce that my latest book, “Pick Your Poison” is an award winner! “We are excited to announce that the book “Pick Your Poison” has won the Bronze/3rd Place award in the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program for the Romance category!...
by Becky Crabtree | Dec 6, 2018 | Pick Your Poison, Sundry Notes
In the weeks before Christmas, my personal email account is chock full of so-called bargains. I giggle and scroll at some of the products selected for my viewing, like exotic cigars and remote control helicopters. But, some of the offers are solid and just what I want...
by Becky Crabtree | Oct 14, 2018 | Pick Your Poison, Sundry Notes
It’s that time! The third novel in the Stella and Jonas series will be available this week! Titled Pick Your Poison, it continues the adventures of Stella alongside her hubby Jonas in the mountains of West Virginia. They are apprehensive about the reappearance...
by Becky Crabtree | Jul 21, 2018 | Sundry Notes
The third book in the Stella and Jonas series is nearly finished! I say that knowing there will be dozens of more hours spent editing and formatting, but the end is near. The story is coming to a close and I think Stella is happy. She has been a great companion and...
by Becky Crabtree | Sep 4, 2017 | Sundry Notes
Thirty copies of a galley proof of “Try and Be Somebody” (a biography of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason) arrived last Thursday and have been distributed for review and corrections. To say I am excited is an understatement! When I get calmed down, I’ll post...
by Becky Crabtree | Aug 5, 2017 | Sundry Notes
We live near an old slave cemetery high on Peters Mountain that needed tending. During the Boy Scout Jamboree, there were inquires for work days for the thousands of troops visiting north of here. We applied, troops from middle Tennessee cam to work in the summer...
