by Olivia | Sep 8, 2014 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
“That’s two minutes of my life I’ll never get back.” Ten seconds, two minutes, an hour, a day. We’ve all had the experience of feeling like 1) we wasted our time through our own fault or 2) we let someone else waste our time. I had my teeth cleaned the other day, and...
by Olivia | Sep 1, 2014 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
“I love that title,” people say to me when I mention Wonderful Lonesome, the title of my new book. This is the start of a set of books called Amish Turns of Time. All three books are set in the 1910s, but each book is in a different setting with a different cast of...
by Olivia | Aug 25, 2014 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
A friend of mine died about a month ago. Sadly, it was not a surprise. He’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 21 months earlier. He was doing fairly well, considering. He worked for much of the time—when his treatments were not making him too ill to function—and...
by Olivia | Aug 18, 2014 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
September 1 is a double release day! I’m excited about Wonderful Lonesome, the first in a set of three Amish historicals. And for icing on the birthday cake, this may be my favorite book cover yet. A hundred years ago, there was an Amish settlement on the eastern...
by Olivia | Aug 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Pursuit of Lucy Banning, the first in the Avenue of Dreams series, is free in ebook formats for a few weeks. If you haven’t read the series yet, here’s your chance. Happy reading! Kindle Nook...
by Olivia | Jul 7, 2014 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
How’s your summer? Mine is busy. Sometimes I feel like this photo—living in a fog where I can’t see the next step ahead. But I’m also looking forward to the fog lifting and seeing what surprises are on the other side of the bridge. In the spirit of a...
