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Shelley Adina also writing as Adina Senft
Research | Rogues of St. Just

Research on the sea

ByAdina March 14, 2019

Research has taken me to many strange and wonderful places over the years … a Navajo pueblo at Christmas, a Cornish mine, up in a Zeppelin airship … to name only a few. Sweetie is the most obliging man—whatever adventure I drag him along on, he’s happy to go (though the Zeppelin did test his…

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Research | Writing life

The flight not taken

ByAdina February 16, 2018

I love it when my friends look out for me. The other day one of them pointed out an amazing documentary he was watching on YouTube. Have you ever heard of Lady Grace Hay Drummond Hay? For an hour full of the wonder of airships, the gumption of lady journalists, and a little heartbreak to…

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PhD at Lancaster University | Research

The PhD and Ethics—results

ByAdina July 21, 2017

Since my PhD research will include interviews with living people, my application–all 18 pages of it–for the ethics review at the university (here’s my previous post about it) had to pass through three levels of approval: My supervisor The ethics committee, including a department reviewer The Ethics Officer, chair of the ethics committee The reviews…

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Research | Whinburg Township Amish

The Colorado Amish—part 2

ByAdina December 27, 2016December 23, 2016

During Thanksgiving week, my husband and I drove to Colorado to research the Amish communities there before I begin work on the eighth book in my Whinburg Township Amish series, The Highest Mountain. Let me tell you about the second part of our journey to learn about this wonderful community set in some of the…

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Research | Whinburg Township Amish

The Colorado Amish—part 1

ByAdina December 23, 2016February 12, 2024

During Thanksgiving week, my husband and I drove to Colorado to research the Amish communities there before I begin work on the eighth book in my Whinburg Township Amish series, The Highest Mountain. What an experience! Between the magnificence of the landscape and the warmth and humor of the Amish folks themselves, I came away…

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    • Shelley Adina’s Steampunk
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    • Adina Senft’s Amish & YA
      • Amish Kindred Spirits
      • Amish Cowboys of Montana series
      • The Whinburg Township Amish series
      • Breaking Faith series
      • Glory Prep series
    • Charlotte Henry’s Regency Romance
    • Shannon Hollis’s Contemporary Romance
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    • Translations
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