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Granny Woman, Book 5 of the Appalachian Journey series

Granny Woman, Book 5 of the Appalachian Journey series

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Book Six of The Brown Mountain Lights Series now avial

Book Six of The Brown Mountain Lights Series now avial

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BOOK 5 OF APPALACHIAN JOURNEY SERIES AVAILABLE

BOOK 5 OF APPALACHIAN JOURNEY SERIES AVAILABLE

We’re happy to announce that Granny Woman, Book 5 of the Appalachian Journey series, is now available as a Kindle ebook and will shortly be available in paperback and hardback at Amazon. This is actually an interim book, written during a year in the lives of Bessie and Fletcher Elliott when Fletch went to work in a coal mine in Beckley, West Virginia in hopes of saving their struggling farm…

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CHANCING THE BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHTS WINS 2021 FIREBIRD AWARD

CHANCING THE BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHTS WINS 2021 FIREBIRD AWARD

April 2021 – Speak Up Talk Radio announced the winners of 2021’s first quarter FIREBIRD BOOK AWARDS contest. Eighty four winners were announced in 98 categories. One of the winning entries was from author CC Tillery whose book titled Chancing the Brown Mountain Lights won in two categories: Dystopian Fiction and Time Travel Fiction. Authors and publishers from around the world submitted their…

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WHISTLING WOMAN NOW AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER!

WHISTLING WOMAN NOW AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER!

Wonderful news! Amazon invited us to participate in their beta program for hardback books, and we chose Whistling Woman as the first for this new publishing venture. For all those readers who have inquired about purchasing our books in hardcover, it is now available at Amazon. We will be moving on to the others in the near future. We’re excited for this opportunity and appreciate more than we…

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The Walker Sisters – our model for the Collins sisters in our Brown Mountain Lights series I'm not sure if we ever relayed this, but in our Brown Mountain Lights series, the Collins sisters (Sarie, Maggie and Abbie) are modeled after the Walker sisters who lived in a log cabin their father built in Little Greenbrier Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains - late 1800s going into the 1900s, holding a lifetime lease on the property for the rest of their lives after their land was made part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Chasing the Brown Mountain Lights is now available!

Chasing the Brown Mountain Lights is now available!

We are pleased to announce that we just released the ebook version of Chasing the Brown Mountain Lights, Book 4 in our Brown Mountain Lightsseries, at Amazon. The paperback version should be available very soon. We hope you’ll enjoy this book, as Lizzie’s life veers off in a different direction, one that spells more danger and adventure as she continues to search for her place and time in the…

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INDIE BOOK AWARD NOMINEE We wanted to share the good news that Top Shelf Magazine has nominated Through the Brown Mountain Lights… 26 more words

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1st Place in 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards!

1st Place in 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards!

We’re late in announcing this but wanted to take a moment to share the good news that Through the Brown Mountain Lights won 1st place in the 2018 TopShelf Indie Book Awards under the category Regional Fiction! I’ve copied the page from their magazine below announcing us as winner. As always, we couldn’t have done it without our beloved readers. Y’all continue to encourage and inspire us in so…

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Semi-Finalist in 2018 Kindle Book Awards

Semi-Finalist in 2018 Kindle Book Awards

We didn’t win but we’re thrilled Seeking the Brown Mountain Lights was named semi-finalist in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards under the category Romance.  Although we look upon this series as more Appalachian historical fiction, we do hope our cherished readers enjoy the touch of romance we’ve instilled in the story between Lizzie and Josh.

Below is a list of the winner, finalists and semi-finalists:

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Regional Fiction Finalist!

Our book Through the Brown Mountain Lights has been awarded Regional Fiction Finalist in the 2018 Indie Book Awards!

We say it a lot, but we truly mean it. We have the best readers in the world. Thank you all for your continual encouragement and inspiration. We are blessed to share this journey with you.

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Free Audiobook!

Good day, lovely readers! We wanted to let you know that the audiobook of Seeking the Brown Mountain Lights is now available at Audible.com. We have a limited number of free download codes, so those that are interested, please email Christy at ctfrench252@aol.com for the download code and instructions.

Singer/songwriter Reagan Boggs, who narrated Through the Brown Mountain Lights, did the honors…

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BLUFF MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL

Well, the creek did rise last week and we didn’t attend the Gold Festival in Old Fort last Saturday, but tomorrow looks promising for the 23rd Bluff Mountain Music Festival in Hot Springs, NC from 10 am – 5 pm.

Did you know that the Bluff Mountain Music Festival first took place in 1996 to raise funds and awareness to save Bluff Mountain, part of the Pisgah National Forest, from a destructive…

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Gold Festival!

Did you know that in the 1800s, North Carolina was the biggest gold producer in the country until gold was discovered in California in 1848? Not many people are aware but gold was one of the reasons the US government wanted to move the Cherokee and other Native Americans out of the mountains so they could claim the land and poach the gold.

There are actually two Gold Festivals this year, and…

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2018 eBook Award! We wanted to share with our awesome readers the EPIC 2018 eBook Award for Historical Fiction we recently received for our book…

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Another record-breaking festival

This past Saturday, September 30th, we participated in the Art on the Island Arts Festival on Blannahassett Island in beautiful Marshall, NC. This is the only town I am aware of that has an island in the middle of its downtown area, and it is just gorgeous. The weather couldn’t have been better with sunny skies and mild temperatures. And talk about ambience! Fantastic live music (was that Santana…

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Record-breaking Festival

Friday and Saturday, September 8th and 9th, we participated in the Historic Morganton Festival in beautiful Morganton, North Carolina. We couldn’t have asked for a better day, with gorgeous cerulean skies dotted with puffy white clouds and highs in the 70s. Or for a better site, being placed on the lawn of the historic Old Courthouse, which is where William Waightstill Avery shot his nemesis…