I grew up in Echols, smallest county in Georgia, populationwise, but large in flatwoods landmass. And trees. We grow and harvest pines for a living. Yep, almost 300,000 acres of pines. So few people and yet two of them were/are published by major NY houses. Virginia Lanier, now deceased, wrote mysteries and I write literary fiction.
My latest novel is "The Little Known," taken from a newspaper article about a poor little more...