Naomi’s Hope ~ New Drexler Fan Found! I’m a bit leery of many authors in the Amish genre these days. It seems that several are in it just to make a buck or two off of a novella. To be honest, I was curious about a novel titled Naomi’s Hope, but I wasn’t sold – […]
Raging Storm – Not Amish, but Amazing! So, no surprise that I am a fan of Amish fiction. It draws me in like no other. But I seem to have found another genre to pique my interest: Dystopian (the opposite of Utopian). I was already a fan of Vannetta Chapman’s Amish fiction writings when I […]
A Mother’s Love – Add This to Your TBR Pile! When you find a novel by Charlotte Hubbard, you know you are in for a treat. Each one is chock-full of romance, intrigue, and of course, Amish! What more could a reader want? Her latest release, A Mother’s Love, is no exception. A Mother’s Love […]
When I wrote An Empty Cup, it was during a very difficult period for me. I wasn’t certain how my readers would take to the story line which, at the time, mirrored my own life. So many readers, however, wrote to me to confide that they felt as if they were Rosanna Yoder when, in […]
Hello friends! My name is Susan Hougelman. I live and work in a little town in Western Pennsylvania called New Wilmington. New Wilmington is home to an Old Order Group of Amish called the Byler Settlement. We have the third largest Old World Order Amish group in Pennsylvania, and tenth largest and oldest Amish population […]
An Amish Summer – Bring it On! When you happen upon a novel that contains the stories of four well-known Amish-genre authors, your heart skips a beat. Well, at least mine does – especially when I have the opportunity to read Shelley Shepard Gray, Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller, and Kelly Irvin! So when An Amish […]
I’ve lived in Ohio all my life. Well, almost all my life. There were those 5 years when my one true love married me and whisked me off to live in New York. But after our daughter was born, it only seemed natural to head back to our families in the Midwest. That’s where we’ve […]
Growing up in the 70s (gee! that sounds soooo long ago!), television was limited to a handful of channels and there weren’t that many programs for children. The Internet hadn’t been invented yet and cell phones were decades away from infiltrating our lives. So what did children do in their spare time? Play and read. […]
Summer!! That’s usually how I approach this season. I use a lot of exclamation points. I love warm summer nights watching the lightning bugs fly around and I always spend way to long trying to catch them. Our days are long, leisurely, and filled with good food. (My favorite topic) Summer produce in Amish Country, […]
A sleeping preacher? There couldn’t really be such a thing, could there? That’s the question in Gladden the Heart. In the nineteenth century, amid revivalism movements, a number of religious groups experienced preachers who seemed to fall into trances or into unconsciousness and wake up to preach for lengthy periods of time. Despite having no […]