Growing up in Northwestern PA I had the joy of being surrounded by multiple Amish settlements. Their culture and lifestyle became embedded in how I view the world and made me fall in love with their simple lifestyle. While I am not Amish I do live by many of their God centered, family focused, hard […]
The Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series debuted at the end of August with the release of Assaulted Caramel. When I was asked to write another Amish mystery series after I had written the popular Appleseed Creek Mysteries and the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries, which I wrote under the pen name Isabella Alan, I was a […]
If I were to make a list of all of the books I’d like to read this summer, it’d be too many to count! I was just telling my husband that I wish I had a “download” button in my brain so that I could just devour all of the wonderful stories I come across. […]
When I decided I wanted to write romantic suspense, I never imagined I’d end up being the author of nine (and counting!) Amish books. My first attempts at getting published involved regular folks in suspenseful situations. My writing had captured the attention of an editor at Harlequin, but couldn’t get past the senior editor. I […]
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 […]
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. […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has specific crimes that receive their attention. By analyzing intelligence and law enforcement functions, the FBI is able to fulfill their mission of “To protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.” At times, task forces are formed in order to share data and use the […]
As promised, here is a deleted scene from HER BROTHER’S KEEPER by Beth Wiseman! Charlotte closed Big Red’s door. She’d named the 1957 truck Big Red since it was a beast of a vehicle, powerful in its own right, with enough dents to show wear and tear through the decades. Manipulating the stick-shift had put muscles […]