by Mark Pinsky | Feb 22, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Not to be outdone by Marshall, the hilltop college town of Mars Hill has become part of the Madison County boomlet, according to a Dec. 2, 2021 article by Linda Ray in the Asheville alternative weekly, The Mountain Xpress. She writes, “Mars Hill’s Main Street has...
by Mark Pinsky | Feb 15, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Met Her on the Mountain is, as my evangelical friends like to say, “the book of my heart,” a work of decades. This new edition is in hard cover, Kindle, and, for the first time, trade paper. The first thing you may notice is that there is a new cover and a shortened...
by Mark Pinsky | Feb 8, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Decades ago, when I started researching what would become Met Her on the Mountain in Madison County, North Carolina, I was advised to seek out the county’s foremost folklorist, Richard Dillingham (pictured above left). It was great advice. Richard was a font of...
by Mark Pinsky | Feb 1, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain
Hello friends (and future friends)! Welcome to the re-launch of my blog. On April 5, two of my nonfiction crime books will be released: Drifting into Darkness: Murders, Madness, Suicide, and a Death “Under Suspicious Circumstance from NewSouth Books of...
by paracletepress | Nov 24, 2013 | Crime, MarkPinsky.com, Met Her on the Mountain
I’ve started appearing at book clubs here in Central Florida, a first for me, and it’s been fun to get some direct feedback and support. Several weeks ago, at the invitation of a neighbor, I met with her group at a nearby Japanese restaurant. The half...
by paracletepress | Oct 24, 2013 | Met Her on the Mountain
I’m just back from our reading and signing tour of North Carolina. About a week before we left we had a launch party in Orlando at our temple, where we drew nearly 100 — thanks in part to free food (including my wife’s zucchini and banana bread) and...
