Friday, December 6, 2024

A Healing Touch



An Amish woman named Fern was quite wise.  She was a woman of few words but what she did say was powerful and to the point. Bea was hesitant to meet Fern.  Was she ready to hear what she had to say?

Sometimes we spend too much time thinking of the negatives than the positives.  We don't think of what we could gain but what we can lose.  This was what some of the characters in this wonderful book thought.  It can be scary to enter a new relationship after you have been hurt or lost a loved one.  You might feel it is too risky to go for the new job or to try for a promotion. 

An Amish girl, Anna, was willing to take the risk. Her mother was not. Conflict can occur when there is a difference of opinion. This could lead to heartbreak.

I enjoyed the book.  The characters were realistic. I always love reading Suzanne Woods Fisher's books.  

Five stars.

Bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher wrote her first novel in sixth grade, about Pompeii, a dog, and the erupting volcano (terrible ending!) and, from that point on, she was hooked on the writing life. Curiously, she doesn’t remember anyone, ever, telling her she was a talented writer. She just loved to write. (And she worked hard at the craft. She still does.)

College happened, work, then marriage, children, a sprinkling of corporate transfers, and Suzanne kept plugging away at freelancing for several magazines. (Four kids = lots of great material.)

As her children headed off to college, Suzanne had the time to get serious about writing. She wrote a little World War II love story, Copper Star, which was published by Vinspire, a small royalty press. The novel won some awards, and it also caught the eye of a wonderful agent. And that’s when things started to happen.

Joyce Hart of the Hartline Literary Agency knew of an editor at Revell Books who was looking for an author who had a genuine connection to the Plain People. Knowing that Suzanne’s grandfather was raised Plain, Joyce connected her to that editor. The result was Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World, a finalist for the ECPA Book of the Year.

Thirty-some books later (in a variety of genres—historical fiction, contemporary women’s, and Amish fiction), Suzanne is still writing for that same editor at Revell Books. And she still loves to write.


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