Ask the Author: Patrick E. Craig
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Patrick E. Craig
Just finished "The Amish Princess" and now I'm starting book three of the Paradise Chronicles series, "The Mennonite Queen."
Patrick E. Craig
Listen. Listen to your heart and to your mind.
Patrick E. Craig
Telling stories, sharing the gospel, getting all the flotsam and jetsom out of my mind and onto the page in some kind of recognizable form. :)
Patrick E. Craig
I play Freecell or do something that takes my mind totally off what I'm writing. Then in a while I come back to it.
Patrick E. Craig
In my first Amish book, A Quilt For Jenna, Jerusha Hershberger hears the story of her great-great-great-grandfather, Joshua Hershberger from her grandmother, Hannah.
Hannah handed the second book to Jerusha. It was small with a plain leather cover.
“What’s this, Grandmother?” she asked.
“This is the story of Jonathan and Joshua Hershberger,” said Hannah. “It tells of the choices the twin brothers made after Indians massacred their family near Fort Henry on the Ohio, and what effect those decisions had on generations of Hershbergers. One brother, Jonathan, forsook the Amish church and he and all his descendants went out into the world. The other brother, Joshua, stayed in the church and remained faithful, even under the most difficult conditions. Joshua was your great-great-great grandfather. It was his grandson, my father, who came to Apple Creek in 1860 as a boy. It is because Joshua stayed true, that you are here today.”
In my second book, The Road Home, Jerusha’s adopted daughter, Jenny Springer, meets Jonathan Hershberger who she discovers is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Jonathan Hershberger, the twin who married an Indian princess and left the Amish faith. So I thought this book would be a great opportunity to tell the story of both brothers and the Indian Princess and tie it into the family that is the centerpiece of both the Apple Creek Dreams series and The Paradise Chronicles series.
Hannah handed the second book to Jerusha. It was small with a plain leather cover.
“What’s this, Grandmother?” she asked.
“This is the story of Jonathan and Joshua Hershberger,” said Hannah. “It tells of the choices the twin brothers made after Indians massacred their family near Fort Henry on the Ohio, and what effect those decisions had on generations of Hershbergers. One brother, Jonathan, forsook the Amish church and he and all his descendants went out into the world. The other brother, Joshua, stayed in the church and remained faithful, even under the most difficult conditions. Joshua was your great-great-great grandfather. It was his grandson, my father, who came to Apple Creek in 1860 as a boy. It is because Joshua stayed true, that you are here today.”
In my second book, The Road Home, Jerusha’s adopted daughter, Jenny Springer, meets Jonathan Hershberger who she discovers is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Jonathan Hershberger, the twin who married an Indian princess and left the Amish faith. So I thought this book would be a great opportunity to tell the story of both brothers and the Indian Princess and tie it into the family that is the centerpiece of both the Apple Creek Dreams series and The Paradise Chronicles series.
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