Guest Blog: Diane Craver and A Journey for Amy *Prize is a Print Copy to a Random Commenter! **WINNER: Lucy Reynolds

Dear Readers, I hope you all are doing well and enjoying cooler weather. I'm looking outside in South Carolina and everything is still a vivid Irish green. But I am looking forward to the holidays. How about you?

Please join me in welcoming Diane Craver--whom I appreciate so much for getting me her post early! And I also think her story sounds wonderful--read for yourself below. :)

Introduce yourself—name, where you’re from, and something people notice when they meet you.

Thanks for having me, Christina! Hi, I’m Diane Craver, and I live in Batavia, Ohio, about twenty-six miles southwest of Cincinnati.

When people meet me, some people have asked if I have Native American in my background. One woman tells me that I have Cherokee features because I resemble her mother. Her parent is a quarter Cherokee. I don’t have any Native American ancestors in my bloodline.

Tell us about your book—title and back cover blurb.

The title of my third book in my Amish Adoption Series is A Journey for Amy.

Amy Yoder feels pressure from her Amish parents and her pregnant friend Rose to join the Amish church. Rose worries about dying from breast cancer, like her mother and grandmother did, so she wants Amy to marry her husband, David. Then her baby will be raised by them in an Amish home. Amy doesn’t love David and is dating Joe Barrett, a Catholic man and a paramedic. But will devout Joe give up his Catholic faith to become Amish for her? Does she want him to leave his faith that is important to him? With mounting pressure to take the baptism instructions, Amy decides to move out of her parents’ home to an apartment. Maybe there she can decide what to do about her life.

When Jonas is born, Amy falls in love with the adorable baby. Although Rose wants her to adopt Jonas if both she and David die, how can Amy consider taking the baptism instructions when she loves Joe? She won’t be able to continue to see Joe if she decides to join the Amish church. As the feelings between Amy and Joe grow deeper, can they overcome their dissimilar faiths, or will their differences pull them apart?

Share one thing that you found difficult or challenging about writing this book.

When my agent submitted my book, The Amish Mother’s Secret, the publisher asked for a series instead of a stand-alone book. I wrote blurbs for books 2 and 3. As I started writing my third book, I realized I couldn’t follow my blurb for this story. My characters demanded to go in a different direction. Also, the title on the proof copy of my book didn’t fit. Fortunately, the title was changed to the new one, A Journey for Amy.

Ask the blog reader a quirky question or two?

        Do you know any triplets? Or twins?

        When I decided to write about triplets, I only personally knew one set with two girls and a boy from our church. I’ve known several sets of twins.

Share your social media and buy links!

To purchase A Journey for Amy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DM6MLL2M

Website: https://www.dianecraver.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Diane-Craver-153906208887/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Diane-Craver/author/B002BMGKYK?  

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1166886.Diane_Craver

Bookbub: bookbub.com/profile/diane-craver

Thank you, Diane, for being a guest! God bless you and keep you, Christina