About the Book
Book: The Amish Menorah
Author: The Men of Amish Fiction
Genre: Amish Fiction
Release Date: May 13, 2020
Come sit and enjoy!
Six short stories by the men of Amish fiction to entertain and educate you. You’ll journey with an Amish man and the Jewish woman whose life he saves, agonize with an Amish girl in love with an Englische man, fret with two sisters both in love with the same man, pray with the family whose child is injured in a fall, work with the Amish sheriff in a western town, and laugh at the girl forced to be Amish for the summer.
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About the Authors
To
know Wil, one would probably not think of him as an author. He is a
husband, a father, a Christian, a veteran, a business owner, and a
servant. He has led a life of bold and diverse experiences that
immediately capture one’s attention. Wil has an unexpected artistic and
creative side—something that might be considered uncommon, given his
life’s works. Wil’s greatest inner strength is his expression and
creativity. His life’s works give a credit to his writing that few other
fiction authors possess. This generates a vivid degree of realism above
and beyond other works of fiction.
Amazon
bestselling author Patrick E. Craig is a lifelong writer and musician
who left a successful music career to become a pastor in 1986. In 2007
he retired to concentrate on writing and publishing fiction books. In
2013, Harvest House Publishers published his first Amish series, Apple
Creek Dreams. Patrick and his wife, Judy, live in Idaho. They have two
daughters and Five grandchildren. Patrick is represented by the Steve
Laube Agency
Jerry Eicher was born to Amish parents, and raised in an Amish settlement in Honduras, Central America. The family returned stateside in the late seventies, when Jerry was sixteen. He spent his youth with a beloved Amish youth group in Belle Center, Ohio, and was married in 1983 to Tina Schmucker, whose parents had moved to the community from Nappanee, Indiana. Jerry and Tina left the Amish to join the Mennonites after the birth of their second son. He wrote his first work in the early twenties, a fictionalized version of his childhood in Central America. His second title was an Amish love story— Sarah. Since then Jerry has published over thirty fiction titles and sold nearly a million books.
Thomas
Nye writes novels about Amish life, with a touch of romance, and a
foundation of faith in Christ. He and his wife, Shari, live on her
family farm where they raised five children. They have seven
grandchildren and a team of draft horses. Thomas walks a mail route for
the US Postal Service. It keeps him close to nature and a affords many
quiet hours in which to dream up novels. “Over three decades of
friendships with Amish neighbors has revealed a simple wisdom that
inspires my writing.” To find out more about Thomas Nye and his books,
visit: amishhorses.blogspot.com
Murray
Pura has over twenty-four novels to his credit and, in addition, has
published dozens of short stories, novellas,,and poems along with
numerous books of non-fiction. He has worked with Baker, Barbour,
Zondervan, Harvest House, MillerWords, HarperCollins, Harlequin, Harper
One and Elk Lake Publishing. His fiction has won or been short listed
for a number of literary prizes. Pura has lived in the UK, the Middle
East, the USA and Canada. He now makes his home in the Rocky Mountains
of Alberta.
Amos
Wyse was born in the Midwest. Spending a great deal of his youth around
good, hard-working farmers, those who lived near them and worked with
them. When writing, he keeps those people and the life lessons they
taught close by.More from The Men of Amish
The Amish Menorah and Other Stories was born out of a happy meeting between Patrick E. Craig and Thomas Nye at an Amish writers and readers event put on by Connie Spradling Lynch in Shipshewana, Indiana in 2019. Most of these readers did not know that there were several men who wrote Amish fiction. So Patrick and Tom decided to do something about that. After the conference, invitations went out to Murray Pura, Willard Carpenter, Jerry Eicher and Amos Wyse. Deb Haggerty at Elk Lake Publishers signed on and The Amish Menorah came to be.Patrick E. Craig
As always, the six of us male authors of Amish fiction, have the goal of writing interesting and inspiring stories about Amish life. Collectively, our purpose in putting together The Amish Menorah, was to offer a sampling of Amish novellas written by men. There are only a few of us guys and dozens of women writing Amish novels. This book is an opportunity for readers of Amish fiction to sample six of our writing styles in one setting.
The Biblical description of a Menorah is a seven-flame lampstand. We like to think of our six stories in the Amish Menorah as six flames, each shining a unique light on Amish life. Our prayer is that you, our readers, will become that seventh flame as you join us by reading The Amish Menorah.
Thomas Nye
Blog Stops
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Connie’s History Classroom, October 7
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Ashley’s Bookshelf, October 10
Artistic Nobody, October 11 (Guest Review from Joni Truex)
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Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, October 12
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Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, October 13
Captive Dreams Window, October 13
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, October 14
Simple Harvest Reads, October 14 (Guest Review from Donna Cline)
For Him and My Family, October 15
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deb’s Book Review, October 16
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Locks, Hooks and Books, October 17
Blossoms and Blessings, October 17
Sara Jane Jacobs, October 18
Vicky Sluiter, October 18
Giveaway
To celebrate their tour, The Men of Amish
Fiction are giving away the grand prize package of copy of The Amish
Menorah and Other Stories, a copy of Samson and Amish Delilah (by Thomas
Nye), and an Amish coloring book designed for Amish children and sold
in Amish stores!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
My Review
These stories are all written by men and all take place in Amish communities, and very different communities.
I did like the notes about good works, and hadn't realized that.
Most of these stories kept my attention, and really enjoyed three of them!
I never knew about the Amish in WWII, and really appreciated it when Thomas Nye wrote without throwing in a few Pennsylvania Dutch words in sentences, I have Amish friends and they do no talk that way. So thank you!
These stories are quick reads and will keep your attention, and when you finish one you will be ready for the next.
The only one I really didn't care for turned out to be an advertisement for an up coming book, and I wasn't expecting that!
I received this book through Celebrate Lit and the Publisher Elk Lake, and was not required to give a positive review.
I did like the notes about good works, and hadn't realized that.
Most of these stories kept my attention, and really enjoyed three of them!
I never knew about the Amish in WWII, and really appreciated it when Thomas Nye wrote without throwing in a few Pennsylvania Dutch words in sentences, I have Amish friends and they do no talk that way. So thank you!
These stories are quick reads and will keep your attention, and when you finish one you will be ready for the next.
The only one I really didn't care for turned out to be an advertisement for an up coming book, and I wasn't expecting that!
I received this book through Celebrate Lit and the Publisher Elk Lake, and was not required to give a positive review.
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Thanks for the review, I think it sounds interesting!
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