Author · Christiana, Tennessee

GeorgeAnn Dingus

GeorgeAnn Dingus is a debut author from Christiana, Tennessee, whose writing is rooted in faith, family, and God’s redeeming grace. Her memoir, From Ashes to God, shares her journey through the loss of her son, Ryan, and the hope she found in Christ. She also honors Ryan’s legacy through Hard Hitting Stories From a Hard Hit People, a collection of Appalachian stories he wrote before his passing. With Southern warmth, heartfelt faith, and honest storytelling, GeorgeAnn invites readers to find God’s faithfulness in both laughter and tears.

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A memoir of grief and grace, and a son’s Appalachian stories carried forward in his place. Both are coming soon — keep an eye here for word.

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From Ashes To God

A mother’s story of loss, remembrance, and hope rising from the ashes.

by GeorgeAnn Dingus

From Ashes to God is a Christian memoir set against the rugged beauty of the Tennessee and Virginia mountains, a landscape deeply loved by Ryan Dingus, whose curiosity about Appalachian history was as much a part of him as his humor, intelligence, and light. When GeorgeAnn Dingus lost Ryan in a tragic house fire, the journey that followed led through unanswered questions and a grief that refused to let go. Yet this is not only a story of loss. It is a tribute to Ryan’s character, faith, the mountains he loved, including a tender account of his life with autism. With honesty and heart, Dingus writes about motherhood, disability, grief, and the presence of God in the darkest places. This faith- based memoir speaks to grieving families, parents of children and adults on the spectrum, and readers drawn to stories of hope, healing, and God’s faithfulness in suffering. For readers of Christian memoir, Appalachian stories, grief and loss, and faith tested by fire.

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Hard Hitting Stories From A Hard Hit People

A true Appalachian family history of persecution, resilience, and remembrance.

by Ryan G Dingus

Written by Ryan G. Dingus, this powerful work reclaims the hidden history of his mixed-ancestry Appalachian family, whose lives were shaped by faith, land, kinship, racial persecution, and survival during the Jim Crow era. Part family history, part Southern folklore, and part historical witness, the book gathers true accounts passed down through generations—stories of ancestors who endured violence, displacement, injustice, and yet remained people of character, faith, humor, and pride. Through courthouse records, family interviews, photographs, historic documents, songs, oral traditions, and firsthand research, Ryan brings to light a story long hidden from public memory. Set against the rugged landscape of the Keith family farm and the mountains of Southwest Virginia, the book includes accounts of family tragedy, ghost stories, faith healers, moonshiners, traditional hymns, folkways, and the enduring legacy of a people who refused to disappear. Ryan G. Dingus never saw this manuscript published. It is now offered to the world posthumously.

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