My Amish Books Sold On Ebay

Two of my Amish books are on ebay for a month. Check them out if you like Amish stories. You will see I've reduced the price on the first two Amish books I wrote just so I can introduce new readers to my Nurse Hal series.

Christmas Traditions wasn't meant to be part of a series, but readers ask me if I could continue Margaret Yoder's story. I did sort of. At first, I had an idea about putting a home health nurse in an Amish settlement so I was eager to start the Nurse Hal series and thought I'd forget about Margaret Yoder.

In A Promise Is A Promise, the first book in the Nurse Hal series, I saw right away Hallie Lindstrom Lapp needed one good friend to go to for advice about turning from English to Amish. John took Hal to meet their neighbor Margaret Yoder. She had been through a similar experience in Pennsylvania. She was Amish as a child, left home to be English and returned to the Amish settlement to marry the man she'd always loved. She'd had experience in both worlds. So I, as the author, moved Margaret and her son, Luke, to Iowa after Margaret's husband, Levi, died. They had lived in that area for some time before Margaret and Hallie become friends. John Lapp sees Hallie struggling with rigid Amish ways. He doesn't want to lose Hallie so he introduces her to Margaret, hoping that would help. It did.

Since this is a series, the books should be read in order. So try my books that are a reduced price on ebay for one month. See if you might like them well enough to want to read the rest of my Nurse Hal Among The Amish series. Book five was just released-Emma's Gossamer Dreams.

Check out ebay reviews from my many customers that are happy with my shipping method and signing the books for them. I put a certain number of books up for sale. I'm an Independent author so I can get new supplies of books printed when I want to order so I always have a supply on hand.

On weebly.com, you will find my bookstore www.booksbyfaybookstore.weebly.com or people can order from me by using my email or commenting in my website store's guest book. These ways all work. My bookstore site has information about my accomplishments, book reviews and my blog. Looking through the site is a good way to get to know me.

I've become aquainted with many buyers around the country that buy from ebay. We've become good enough friends that we can email about other things besides a book order. They are eager to see what has happened next on the Lapp farm near Wickenburg, Iowa. They email me to see if I have another book about done. I love it when that happens.

Poor Defenseless Addie

Poor Defenseless Addie by Fay Risner




View all my reviews In November 2012, I entered the National November Write Month Contest better known as nanowrimo. I made it over the 50,000 word deadline so I collected my winner label for this book. Poor Defenseless Addie is the seventh in the Amazing Gracie Series. Though Gracie Evans is tired of listening to all the town gossips, she begins to worry when they talk about a stranger in town. The man is living with a friend of Gracie's, Addie Masters. Seems he is the elderly woman's son that none of the gossips knew about. When Addie stops attending church, Gracie and the other residents from Moser Mansion wonder if she's ailing. They decide to visit her. A first hand look at Addie's rude son and seeing a wicked bruise on Addie's hand gets Gracie and her friends putting two and two together. They come up with elderly abuse that they think should be reported to the law. Town Marshal Earl Bullock turns their complaint about Homer Masters over to Sheriff Ben Logan. He comes up with some disturbing information that has the sheriff and town marshal worried about Addie. They have to have proof that Homer is abusing his mother, or she has to confess which isn't going to happen. Beloved Aunt Pearlbee is suddenly taken ill and needs attention. The residents of Moser Mansion have to let Addie fend for herself. Gracie worries that by the time they get back to helping poor defenseless Addie Masters, she will be dead. This is the second time I made it over the deadline in the contest. I entered with Tread Lightly Sibby, a historical book set in Texas County, Missouri in 2011. Actually, I have used the contest's concept all along. Write as fast as you can no matter how sloppy the text looks then go back to rewrite and edit as many times as it takes. So with Poor Defenseless Addie I started November first and by February I had the finished book. Enjoy, Fay Risner

The Country Life Mentioned In Amish Books

The following is a post from a community discussion on Amish books I found several years ago and took to heart when I write my Nurse Hal Amish series. THIS is the kind of SIMPLE, AMISH reading that I'm talking about. I want to read about living, working, growing up, BEING --AMISH!!! Tell me (in detail) about collecting the eggs from the hen house and the chickens come chasing after you (this happened to ME on my grandpa's farm), talk about making friendship bread and how that's passed down (LITERALLY) from family to family or friendship to friendship. THIS is stuff I want to read about. Sure, a love story is fine, hardships are fine, but make it FIRST be ABOUT the AMISH! I'm not alone in this, either. I got the ladies group in my church reading Amish a few years back (and pass on each new book I get), but we're starving for more AMISH stories. We're going to go and actually visit the Amish here, locally, and are so excited to get to be a part of what we've read with so much interest. We'd like to find more authors that share THAT thrill! I read the post after I had written my first Nurse Hal book - A Promise Is A Promise, and I agree with the person who wrote the post. One way to identify an Amish story as Amish is the setting and mentioning of their every day life. Every day can be different on a diversified farm such as the Amish have, and there is always details that make the story real. In A Promise Is A Promise, I wrote about Nurse Hal helping the children get the pigs back in the pen. She rescued Daniel from a charging bull and helped the children have a burial for their dog. Nurse Hal was raised on a dairy farm and was comfortable helping with chores. Emma showed her how to butcher chickens, and that took some getting used to for Nurse Hal. She was determined to gain Emma's approval of her so when Emma asked her to go catch a rooster to butcher for lunch Hal set out to do just that. She caught the first rooster that came close to her, and found out after it was too late, she'd killed Emma's pet rooster. How do I come up with these details? I was raised much like the Amish on a farm in Missouri. Taking care of animals and chickens came natural, because it was my family's simple way of life just like an Amish family. The rest of my life, I've lived in the country and had livestock and chickens. I can identify with anyone who knows about gathering eggs. I've been pecked many times by a hen that didn't want to give up her egg, and multiple times, I've been flogged by a mean rooster that chased me to the house. So I did take to heart the post, and I've made sure there is plenty of every day life in my Amish books. Emma's roosters haven't turned mean yet but stick around. That may happen soon. In my latest book, Emma's Gossamer Dreams, Emma becomes the school teacher and Nurse Hal struggles as she learns to become a homemaker. She's good at nursing but terrible at cooking which adds humor but compassion if we remember our days as new cooks. Mingled in the story, Daniel brings home a baby raccoon for a pet that causes all kinds of problems like catching Emma's hens. This is book five in the Nurse Hal Among The Amish series. If you haven't read one of the books you really should start at the beginning with book one A Promise Is A Promise so you are properly introduced to the Lapp family and Nurse Hallie Lindstrom Lapp. I promise you will have to read the rest of the series to see what happens next.

All my ebooks are now listed on bookhitch.com

Emma's Gossamer Dreams the latest in the Nurse Hal Among The Amish series is just one of all my books are listed as ebooks and linked to websites to buy them and my paperbacks from on bookhitch.com I'm always looking for another website to advertise my books and ebooks on. Bookhitch.com turned out to be an easy site to download my books information. Of course, I used the free download which doesn't afford me as much the one I'd have to pay for. I directed those interested to smashwords.com where the ebooks are located. With my information, you will find the places to go to buy my paperback books at Amazon and my bookstore http://www.booksbyfaybookstore.weebly.com. Buyers that choose a book from my bookstore will have the book signed by me. Another place I've just downloaded my Amish series ebooks - Nurse Hal Among The Amish is on Kobo Writing Life. Take a look at that sight if you're interested. I love westerns so I shared four of them on bookhitch.com along with my mystery and Amish series. My two books on Alzheimer's disease can be downloaded from smashwords.com by linking from the bookhitch.com site, too. I stay busy working on new books to be released soon. Next will be seven in my Amazing Gracie Mystery series - Poor Defenseless Abby. This is the book I wrote for the National November Writing Month contest which I succeeded in making the deadline by writing over 50,000 words in November. The weather had been bad here all week. We've had ice, dense fog, pouring rain, five inches of snow, white out conditions, bitter cold and now that we are about ready to start above freezing days I'm ready for spring. Can we trust the ground hog prediction?

Emma's Gossamer Dreams - Nurse Hal Book 5

back of book cover Welcome to the Lapp farm near Wickenburg in southern Iowa. Come to visit and bring your sense of humor. Dependable Emma Lapp dreams about the same fate that happens to all teenage Amish girls. Eventually, she will fall in love, marry and have a large family, but she's been offered the teacher's job for a term. That means working away from home and leaving Nurse Hal to take care of the household while she's still trying to perfect her cooking skills. That worries Emma. She doesn't think Nurse Hal is ready to take on the responsibilities of homemaker and continue her nursing duties at the same time. However, Emma wants to take her place in the grownup world and teaching school will be an exciting challenge. Emma turned seventeen and is considered a good catch by several eligible bachelors. As Emma puts it, every single man in the community is sizing her up for his wife. The men make it obvious they want to be her special friend. She spent her childhood growing up with Levi Yoder. Now he thinks he has first claim on her. Emma's not so sure about that when she finds herself tempted by Eli Yetzy, the deacon's son. He's wildly into rumspringa so he imitates English teens and does things that are against Emma's beliefs. She wants to turn away from him but finds him appealing. Emma is really confused when a school board member, widower Amos Coblentz, takes a liking to her. At the same time, Bobby Keim tries to get her attention. Emma becomes so troubled about which man she wants to spend her life with that her nights are riddled with unsettling dreams that tangle together in her mind. Filmy male faces move about like strong transparent gauze in a gentle breeze, competing for her attention while she tries to sleep. In the dark of night, these dreams seem very real while the break of day leaves even more room for doubt and confusion as Emma's Gossamer Dreams keep her in turmoil.

Lastest book Release Emma's Gossamer Dreams-Nurse Hal Among The Amish book 5

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Honorable Mention For Authors Early April Fools Spam

I'd like to alert everyone to the email I mentioned in my last blog post. When I received the email, I tried to look up the article and couldn't find it in News Digest. I assumed I might have been too late to read the article since Lisa Davis's message said it would only be available for a few hours. I'm always looking for things to post in my blog that draw attention to my books and online bookstore so I went ahead and posted with excerpts from the email to prove Lisa Davis had sent it to me just in case. But something about this email spelled fake so I kept looking for some mention of the New Digest article in Google alerts. What I found was that spam emails are being sent out for other articles in News Digest and signed Lisa Davis. There isn't any such article or a Lisa Davis or an Anthony Moreno that has interest in who's who for authors and publishers. In my Google search, I found a former real estate agent that wrote about an email she received. She said it might be linked to a virus. What alerted her was she hadn't been a real estate agent for a few years when she received the email. A comment in another area said it might be a way to get people on spam lists. Once we check the link on Lisa Davis's email, we go to News Digest, and we are linked to a spam list. Since my email address is listed in many sites online because I sell my books online, I receive a lot of spam and most of that go in my spam digest and gets deleted. I wouldn't know if my checking out the News Digest site caused an increase in spam. There wasn't any harm done to my computer. I think I'd know it. On the bright side, I know others are reading my blogs or found my post in Google. I was contacted by several authors that received the same email and ask me how to find the article. My author ego is still in tact whether I make a Who's Who list or not. I love to see mention of my books. I enjoy writing and creating books. That's enough. I've printed the email in its entirety so the website links to News Digest aren't there. If you received this email do what I've done and warn people about it. Beware that the website and the sender's name may change. Good morning! We wanted you to know that you received Honorable Mention in yesterday's article titled "Who's Who Among Authors and Publishers" by Anthony Moreno. The article will remain available at News Digest for the next few hours and is available for download and printing, without cost. We hope you have a joyous holiday season and a prosperous new year. Sincerely, Lisa Davis News Digest International News Digest