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Amish Fiction: Does it portray the Amish accurately?

December 7, 2019 by Kelly Irvin 5 Comments

Longest suspension bridge in Montana

Recently while perusing Facebook—procrastinating instead of writing—I came across a reader’s query regarding Amish fiction. How realistic is it, she asked? Does it accurately reflect how the Amish really live? It’s a great question and one I’m sure many readers ask themselves. It’s also one I’ve longed to answer for myself as the author of…  Read More

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Stories reflect effort to honor Amish world view

May 26, 2017 by Kelly Irvin 5 Comments

I published my first inspirational Amish romance five years ago. I didn’t start out to write about the Amish. Quite frankly, it was my dear agent Mary Sue Seymour’s suggestion. I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it. I did a great deal of research before starting that first book, To Love and To Cherish….  Read More

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amish, Amish America, Amish fiction, Amish romances, Donald Kraybill, Ephesians 5:22-24, husband-wife relationships, husbands, Upon a Spring Breeze, wives

Flowers represent life’s changing seasons

March 12, 2017 by Kelly Irvin 187 Comments

Photo of Impatiens

As I left the neighborhood this weekend to go to a meeting, I lamented how dreary and “ugly” it’s been here in South Texas for the past week. No sun in at least five days. Then I turned onto the road behind our subdivision and saw a massive carpet of beautiful bluebonnets blooming in a…  Read More

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amish, Amish romance novels, flowers, romance, seasons, spring, Upon a Spring Breeze

Amish newspaper offers peek into daily lives

January 8, 2017 by Kelly Irvin 148 Comments

Budget Newspaper

A key research tool I use for all of my Amish romance novels is a biweekly publication called The Budget. It’s a thick broadsheet newspaper filled with letters from “scribes” who write about what’s going on in their Amish and Mennonite communities across the country. I love settling onto the couch and leafing through the…  Read More

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Amish, Amish fiction, Amish romance novels, Every Amish Season, horse and buggy, scribes, The Budget, Through the Autumn Air

Of ammunition & airplanes: getting the facts right in fiction or risking reader ire

October 29, 2016 by Kelly Irvin 20 Comments

Error in Longmire novel

I’m reading a Walt Longmire mystery by Craig Johnson. The bad language aside, I really like his books. He does a fabulous job with characters. Walt and Henry Standing Bear share one of my most favorite bromances. However, right now, I’m a little peeved because a previous reader has kindly shared with me—and anyone who…  Read More

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: A Serpent's Tooth, Amish, Amish romances, books, Craig Johnson, factual errors, fiction, John Igo Library, novelist, novelists, Walt Longmire

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