Who woulda guessed?  This is from Brian Cook at Book Pub­lish­ing News. I wish I knew the orig­i­nal source. "Books based on life in small town south­ern Appalachia sell like hot­cakes!" stated one pub­li­cist. Accord­ing to book sales data, from 1998-present, Amer­ica can't get enough sto­ries about small town life in South­ern Appalachia. Over twenty-five […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…