Author: Amy Grochowski
Submitted: May 29, 2020
Tell us a little about yourself. Before I became an author, a wife, and a mother, I was a nurse. I worked my way through nursing school in a home for the elderly which operated as a ministry run by a Beachy Amish family. During those years, my closest friends were a part of the Mennonite and Amish communities, including everything from very traditional to mainstream.
What was your motivation behind this project? In 2016, when groups of Canadian Amish/Mennonites began moving to Prince Edward Island, I knew there were stories to be told. And I wanted to tell them. Of course, my stories and characters are fictional, but I hope the spirit of them remains true.
What do you hope folks will gain from this project? Through the fictional characters and New Hope Amish community of this book series, I hope readers will gain an appreciation for the simple life, as well as encouragement through the spiritual struggles which will strengthen the reader's own faith.
How were you personally impacted by working on this project? Writing is cathartic in many ways. My process has become a pattern of read, write, heal. The characters come alive, in a sense, to me. Creating their dilemmas and solutions requires me to dig deep within myself for answers. As a result, the process of writing Forever Home included a life altering lesson on forgiveness for me.
Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know: Like almost all romance readers, I require a happy ending. I prefer a believable one, but satisfying nonetheless. As children of God, we are promised a happy forever after, no matter what happens to us today. I do my best to deliver that kind of complete ending to my readers.
