Peggy Poe Stern, Mountain Author

Home page
What's Peggy doing?
Novels' page
Guidebooks' page
Biography page
Reviews' page
Purchase Books
Calendar of Events
Excerpt from Peggy's first novel

Welcome graphic

The North Carolina Appalachians are home to Peggy's family as well as her novels. She is a born and bred Appalachian mountain native, only willing to leave the green mountains for short visits.
 
Readers describe her novels as masterpieces of mountain life. Peggy has the rare gift of putting you in the story and experiencing every word. 

Peggy was born at the end of a dirt road called Sugar Tree in Ashe County.
 
She met her future husband, David Stern, when she was fourteen. She was married at the age of seventeen and had her first four children within five years. Later on, she had two more.
 
She likes to tell people that David wanted twelve children, but she will only meet a man half-way - and so agreed to have six.
 
Peggy says her life is like a patchwork quilt. It's made from a rag of almost everything.
 
When asked what she wanted to become as a child, she answers, "I wanted to become a doctor, a lawyer, or a writer. I thought a writer would take less preparation and money. Was I ever wrong."
 
When asked about her writing, Peggy smiles and says, "I'm a natural-born story teller. Therefore, I suppose I'm a natural-born writer, too. Although, for about thirty-eight years, I didn't think so. I thought people that wrote had to have many years of college education and a string of letters after their name, but I learned it was not necessarily true. An author named Terry Kay gave me some advice that has never left my mind. He said, 'All words are the same. It's how you use them that will make the difference'."
 
"Words are tools used to put images into readers minds. With every word I write, I hope I am giving the reader images that will last a life time. I want the reader to see life - the good and the bad of it. To live a bit of history - a bit of mountain heritage that is fading fast. I want the readers to breathe in of the characters in each book and understand their sorrows and pleasures, the hardships and the joys of life. Most of all, I want every reader that buys my books to be able to say, ''That's the best money I've ever spent.' Put each book on a shelf and keep it as though it was a treasured antique."

Novels: Peggy has eleven novels published and two non-fiction books. "Usually I have eight manuscripts in my computer that I'm working on. The information I want in each manuscript won't always come to me, but information on one of them always will. That's why I write more than one novel at at time."
 
When asked where she gets her idea's for a novel from, she grins and says, "That's not hard. I can feel the wind blow and have a wonderful idea for another book. I have so many idea's they fight with each other over which one gets told first."

Read for entertainment and learning. Discover the life and times of the Appalachian people. Start a collection.

The first editions are 100% Peggy Poe Stern – she writes the characters’ stories, paints the cover picture, then prints and binds each book. Her novels will become your heirlooms.

Visit your local library www.publiclibraries.com/ to enjoy Peggy’s books. If her books aren’t in their collection, Peggy would be most appreciative if you would share this site and request her books be added for their patrons’ enjoyment. 

 

Contact Peggy at 828-963-5331 to purchase books with a card or check. Let her know how you would like them autographed. Visit Amaxon.com to purchase online. E-mail, call, fax, or write Peggy to suggest corrections, give feedback, arrange presentations, or make other special requests:

 

Peggy Poe Stern

475 Church Hollow Road

Boone, NC 28607

828-963-5331 Tel

828-963-4101 Fax

 

 
 

Patronize these businesses in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee to purchase her books. If you aren't close, have your local book seller contact Peggy.

 

 

Bakersville, NC 28705

ˇ          Mitchell Co. Library                828-688-2511

Banner Elk, NC 28604

ˇ          Corner Palate                          828-898-8668

Boone, NC 28607

ˇ          ASU Bookstore                       828-262-3070

ˇ          Black Bear Books                    828-264-4636

ˇ          Highland Newsstand                 828-264-5850

ˇ          Foscoe Pharmacy                    828-963-2060

Burnsville, NC  28714

ˇ          Main Street Books                   828-284-1156

Linville, NC 28657

ˇ          Old Hampton Store                  828-733-5213

Mountain City, TN 37683

ˇ          Lois’s Café                              423-727-9804

ˇ          Family Book and Card             423-727-6499

Newland, NC 28657

ˇ          Avery Post                              828-733-1407

Roan Mountain, TN 37687

ˇ          Twigs on the Roan                  423-772-0221

Spruce Pine, NC 28777

ˇ          Cuttin up                                 828-765-6640

ˇ          Orchard at Altapass                 888-765-9531

Warrensville, NC 28693

ˇ         Warrensville Drug                   336-384-3900

Visit 'Novels' page

Visit "Guidebooks' page

Visit 'Excerpt from Peggy's first novel' page

ppsportrait.jpg