Bio: Laura V.
Hilton is an award-winning, sought-after author with almost twenty Amish,
contemporary, and historical romances. When she’s not writing, she reviews
books for her blogs, and writes devotionals or blog posts for Seriously Write and Putting on the New.
Laura and her pastor-husband have five children and a hyper
dog named Skye and currently live in Arkansas .
One son is in the U.S. Coast Guard. She is a pastor’s wife and homeschools her
two youngest children. When she’s not writing, Laura enjoys reading, and
visiting lighthouses and waterfalls. Her favorite season is winter, her
favorite holiday is Christmas.
Welcome back, Laura. What
are some of the spiritual themes you like to write about?
I don’t generally pick out spiritual themes, but a lot of
them are based on trusting God even when you don’t see His hand moving. The
theme of The Amish Wanderer is how you react when it seems God doesn’t
hear your prayers? The two characters have different views on this.
What other books of
yours are coming out soon?
There *might* be an Indie published contemporary romance
coming out with some other authors later this month, entitled Love in the Skies. My story is First Class, Wrong Flight. There also
*might* be another collection with other authors releasing in April or May
(these are not for sure, set in stone dates yet!) I don’t know the title of
that collection, but my story is called The
Kissing Bridge. In August, I have a
novella with Barbour Books in the Second
Chance Brides collection called Married
by Mistake. In September, Whitaker House releases another Amish Christmas
story, The Christmas Challenge and in
October another Amish book releases, but I don’t yet know for sure what that
title will be.
If you could spend an
evening with one contemporary person (not a family member of yours), who would
it be and why?
A random officer in the Coast Guard so I could ask a ton of
questions. Either that or one of my favorite authors so we could talk books.
What historical
person would you like to meet (besides Jesus) and why?
Mary and Martha. The main character in The Christmas Challenge is like Martha and she has some interesting
questions about Martha’s attitude and how (and if) she ever learned to sit at
Jesus’s feet and listen.
How can you encourage
authors who have been receiving only rejections from publishers?
Oh, good question. Keep studying and learning the craft, and
don’t be afraid to let your pain into the book. Often that is the key to making
the characters come alive – YOU know how it feels when you are rejected, go through
a life-threatening illness, a life-altering event, or whatever. Let that
passion out.
Tell us about The Amish Wanderer.
Bethany Weiss has been fascinated by Silas Beiler since he
spent a couple of years in Jamesport ,
Missouri
Silas’s family has never been happy living in one area for
long, and their vagabond ways are wearing on him. He has lived in Amish
communities all over the nation, moving whenever his daed became disgruntled
with the leaders, and he’s looking for some sense of stability. His intentions
are to make it back to Pennsylvania
and stay with his Englisch onkle and his family—and pursue an education. Will Bethany be the one to
bring Silas in from the cold? Or will he continue on his way to his extended
family and become Englisch?
Please give us the
first page of the book.
November
The sky is falling and I’m searching for somewhere to hide.
We need someone to help, but all I see are clouds in everyone’s eyes. If my
fears could only be forgotten…
If only I could get out of this town.
An unidentified sound, loud in the relative silence, jarred Bethany . Her blue pen
made a squiggly line across the page in the fat little notebook where she wrote
her thoughts. Maybe she should’ve found a more secluded place than the hay pile
beside the loft ladder, but she rarely was disturbed. She raised her head and
listened.
Nothing, except the squeak of the wood doors in the back of
the barn as her younger brother, Timothy, put the cows out to pasture. The soft
lowing of cows. The clucking of free-range chickens.
Hopefully, he was too busy to notice she’d left—and wouldn’t
look for her.
But there it was again. From somewhere overhead. A sound
that didn’t belong. A creak and a thump.
Hopefully, it wasn’t Hen. She’d hear if he were out of jail,
ain’t so? A thread of fear ripped through her, unraveling the tiny bit of peace
she’d been able to find.
How can readers find
you on the Internet?
visit my blogs: http://lighthouse-academy.blogspot.com/ and http://lauravhilton.blogspot.com/
twitter: @Laura_V_Hilton
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Thank you, Laura, for
sharing this book with us today. It sounds like a good read.
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