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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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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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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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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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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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USA Today bestselling author Shelley Adina has written more than 50 novels published by Harlequin, Warner, Hachette, and Moonshell Books, Inc., her own independent press. She writes steampunk adventure and mystery; as Adina Senft, writes women’s fiction set among the Amish and other plain communities; and as Charlotte Henry, writes classic Regency romance. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in the UK. She won the Romance Writers of America RITA Award® for Best Inspirational Novel in 2005, was a finalist in 2006, and in 2009 was a Christy Award finalist. When she’s not writing, Shelley is usually quilting, sewing historical costumes, or enjoying the garden with her flock of rescued chickens.
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