Celia Miles is a native of Appalachia, born in Western North Carolina, and, except for brief stints in Massachusetts and Virginia, plus college in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, has lived here all her life.
A long-time English instructor at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, she is retired and living in Asheville.
She calls herself “a teacher by trade, a traveler by design, a photographer for fun, and a writer by avocation.”
While teaching she co-authored a textbook for the two-year college market (Writing Technical Reports, adapted for the Canadian market as Some Assembly Required. McGraw-Hill, publisher).
Now in addition to freelance editing and writing in various genres—thus, a “nicheless author”—her interests include traveling, photography, old grist mills, and Neolithic sites, especially stone circles.
Her novels include A Thyme for Love, ThymeTable Mill, Mattie’s Girl: An Appalachian Childhood, Sarranda, Sarranda’s Heart, Sarranda’s Legacy, Journey to Stenness, The Body at Wrapp’s Mill, The Body at StarShine Mill, The Skeleton at the Old Painted Mill, The Secret at the Little Lost Mill and Eight Nights at the Harris Hotel.
She has also written two short story collections: On a Slant: A Collection of Stories and Islands One and All: Stories and Otherwise.
is there any way to track down the cover photograph from the book? i’d love to contact the photographer/artist and buy a print. its beautiful.
thank you,
jane lincoln,
supporter of women artists working in all media
This reply has been a long time coming…but if you’ll tell me which book I will tell you how to get or find out about the cover. Thanks.
Thanks Celia for your write up on the Dellinger Mill music festival. Maybe we can get SPOOM attention with your write up. I don’t think the Carolina chapter knows Dellinger Grist Mill exists.
Thanks Again,
Jack
On a recent visit to Asheville I bought Journey to Stenness, mainly due to the title and cover. My husband and i share an interest in megalithic stuff, beginning with “Driving the Stone Age #1” in 1999 in Scotland (Brodgar was and remains my favorite stone circle) with “Driving the Stone Age #10” to southeastern Turkey just completed in May 2011, with the prime attraction being Gobekli Tepe. For me the Adam and Eve stones at Avebury hold special meaning; they represent my mother and brother both of whom passed away in 2010. I enjoyed reading this book for the story and the nostalgia of Orkney and Scotland. We are not very quick about putting up pics and trip diaries, but there are a few on our web site: http://lovebunnies.luckypro.biz/01_stuff/stuff.html
Thanks for writing this book! Dolores M. in Maryland
I’ve been a long time replying but don’t really know how to “operate” this site! But thank you for reading–and commenting about the stone circles. We are returning to Orkney this spring, to stay near Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness, and to find some other sites in the Scottish islands. I hope to blog about the trip–when my skills improve. Did you see the article in the New Yorker about the Gobekli Tepe site? celia
We’ve just returned from another five weeks in the Scottish islands and we revisited our favorite sites: The Stones of Callanish on Lewis in Outer Hebrides, Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar on Orkney, plus several other “lesser” known places. Loved it all. I hope to blog about the trip soon. We would like to go to Turkey, especially since reading about Gobekli Tepe in the New Yorker some time ago. I first saw Avebury in 1969–before I saw Stonehenge–and have been hooked ever since!