Three Book Giveaway of Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds See below for the details Before the instant world of the internet, it was harder for authors to know who was reading their books, or how the readers liked what they were reading. If print newspapers wrote reviews, it was a good sign. Receiving letters or fan […]
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A new interview was published today on the American Studies Blog. It’s called “Art Meets Life: An Interview with Ex-Amish Author Saloma Miller Furlong. Sabrina Völz, from Leuphana University in Lüneberg, Germany, is the author of this blog. She asked me for an interview a few months back. I look forward to meeting her at the Amish Conference in Elizabethtown,
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The winners to the three-book giveaway of Bonnet Strings that I announced on January 22 have just been drawn. I am happy to announce the three winners are: Doxiemutti Wilma Mary Ellen Wagler (because there was another Mary Ellen, I used your email to find out your last name. I hope you don’t mind). To each of the winners: Please
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I am offering a giveaway of three copies of Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman’s Ties to Two Worlds. Simply leave a comment, and I will add your name to the drawing. I will draw for the winners on Saturday, January 30. This giveaway is inspired by several things, most recently a review written by someone calling himself easyEZ. I was
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It often feels like many years since my books were published. So when there are new book reviews that come out of nowhere, I am reminded that it is actually less than two years since Bonnet Strings was published. That is a very long time for a book these days, I know. But when you pour your life into a
I did not realize until this past year, that the impetus for writing my first book, Why I Left the Amish, was essentially to find acknowledgement of the struggles of my childhood. Both my parents died without acknowledging the difficulties all seven of their children endured. My siblings and I have dealt differently with the struggles we went through. While
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