Stories and projects from Callie Wren
small-town fiction, gentle mountain magic, slow-burn hearts, and nature-rooted odds and ends from Wayward Wren Press

Bramble Gap Stories

Honey For What Hurts is my current novel-in-progress: a small-town Appalachian story about grief, honey, old remedies, family secrets, and the inconvenient ways a place can start feeling like home.

Delilah Thorne returns to Bramble Gap expecting to settle her mother’s affairs and leave again. Instead, she finds a failing mercantile, six beehives, a suspicious crow, a wobbly cat, a recipe box full of trouble, and a town that has no intention of minding its own business.

The novel is currently in revision.

From Wayward Wren Press

The Crowkeeper’s Logbook
Notes, Offerings and Observations from the Yard
Available now from Amazon

A quiet, practical logbook for anyone who has ever put out “just a few peanuts” and accidentally become the yard’s unpaid crow secretary.

Inside you’ll find pages for crow profiles, visit logs, offering patterns, trust milestones, monthly and seasonal observations, field notes, and sketches — all designed for patient watching.

At its heart, this logbook follows one simple rule: A crow is not a pet. A crow is a neighbor. For crow-watchers, backyard noticers, and anyone who believes the wild things passing through their yard are worth remembering.