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Amy Clipston is an award-winning American author who writes book series. She is the author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery series, the Roadside Assistance series, the Hearts of Lancaster Grand Hotel series, the Amish Marketplace, and many more. Clipston has sold more than one million books in her career thus far.
Clipston grew up in New Jersey and started writing at a very young age. Her first stories were written when she and a friend would write silly stories in elementary school. She always considered writing to be a hobby and never really considered it to be a potential career. After graduating high school in Virginia, Amy went on to attend Virginia Wesleyan University in Norfolk. She earned her degree in communications there and also met her husband at school.
After college, Amy went to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Norfolk. She originally thought that it might be a summer job, but it ended up turning into an eleven-year career. She continued to write at this time as a hobby and to de-stress after work. She never shared her stories with anyone except for a few close friends. Amy didn’t even admit to her husband at this time that she was a writer.
Amy’s life would change when she found a local fiction writing group in her area known as the Chesapeake Romance Writers. She attended a meeting and was introduced to writers of all experience levels. In these meetings, she realized that she wanted to write and learned how to plot, write, and edit a novel on her own. She also learned a bit about literary agents and was able to get signed with one. Her first book, A Gift of Grace, was sold in 2007.
Clipston is well known for her multiple Amish series of books. She is the author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery Series, the Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel Series, the Amish Heirloom Series, the Amish Homestead Series, and the Amish Marketplace Series. She has said that she loves writing about the Amish and uses an Amish friend from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for help in researching these books. Clipston had a fascination with the Amish from a young age and was drawn to their simplicity and faith.
In addition to her many fiction books, Amy also wrote a memoir about kidney donation. The book is based on her own experience of donating which lead to her husband getting a kidney transplant. Amy and her husband matched with another couple and they ended up swapping kidneys. Hers went a woman while that woman’s husband gave a kidney to her husband. She tells the story of the whole ordeal in her memoir, The Gift of Love.
A Gift of Grace is the first book in the Kauffman Amish Bakery series. The book takes place in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania. Rebecca Kauffman ends up getting custody of her two teenage nieces after their English parents are killed in a automobile accident. She had never been able to conceive a child on her own, but now finds herself as the mother of two teenage girls. She struggles to give them the guidance they need as one girl is rebellious against the Amish ways with the younger sister caught in the middle. The two cultures are tearing her life apart which leads her to having questions about her place, her marriage, and her faith.
The Amish Marketplace series begins with The Bake Shop. The story is another return to Lancaster County and follows a woman named Christiana Kurtz. She loves to bake and her bake stand has grown so busy that she has moved her business to the local market. Her new shop becomes so popular that a huge line forms and blocks the leather and woodcraft shop next door that is owned by Jeffrey. He complains to her about her business while she complains right back about the smells from the shop. It’s a rough start to their relationship, but they soon forge a friendship. However, Christiana’s father visits and he doesn’t like the fact that Jeffrey uses electricity in his shop so he forbids her from dating him as he is too modern. An accident at Jeffrey’s shop puts the whole marketplace at risk, but Christiana stands by him despite his mistake as she can’t deny how she feels.
Roadside Assistance sees a woman named Emily Curtiss who deals with her problems while under the hood fixing cars. This plan doesn’t work as well when she loses her mother and is left shaken. The family is destroyed by the medical bills and Emily and her father have to move in with her older sister. She’s not excited to move here as her sister has plans to make her more feminine. However, things start to look up when she sees a cute gearhead with a 1970 Dodge Challenger living next door. She gets close with Zander, but she still struggles to pray and no one understands why. She needs help and it will come from an unlikely source.
Clipston is also the author of The Forgotten Recipe, the first book in the Amish Heirloom series. Veronica Fisher is lucky to be marrying her best friend. Seth is a kind and hardworking man who loves her with all her heart. Tragedy strikes when an accident on the job takes Seth away from her. Veronica becomes certain that she will never really experience love again in her life. To cope, she decides to open a bake stand after discovering a batch of forgotten recipes. She soon finds herself with a regular customer named Jason. He was there when Seth lost his life and is still haunted by it. He thinks reaching out to Veronica to offer his condolences is the right thing to do, but he’s note expecting to fall in love with her. The two strike out a relationship, but Jason can’t bring himself to tell her about his connection to Seth. Can he tell her without the relationship being lost? Keeping secrets could rob them both of a chance at love.
Why didn’t you continue the “Hearts of Lancaster Hotel series. I love the stories and the people in the series. I wish you would consider it. I love all your books. Amish books are the only ones I have been reading over 10 years. Praying you will have a blessed week.
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Why didn’t you continue the “Hearts of Lancaster Hotel series. I love the stories and the people in the series. I wish you would consider it. I love all your books. Amish books are the only ones I have been reading over 10 years. Praying you will have a blessed week.