Friday-The G-Zone-Two Amish International Best-Selling Authors- Karen Anna Vogel & Beverly Lewis @ 2.30pm EST

The baseball playoffs are heating up, but I have a double header of my own planned for Friday, an Amish one, with two amazing International Best- Selling Authors-Karen Anna Vogel and Beverly Lewis. Both of these authors currently are high atop the Kindle charts, dominating, taking no prisoners. It makes me beg to ask, “What is it about this genre that draws so many readers, loyal, faithful, devoted, readers to this type of work?” Hopefully I will be able to extract that answer from my guests today. Here is what you need to know, the time is set at 2.30pmEST, Karen Anna Vogel comes on first, then Beverly Lewis joins the TGIF party mid- stream. Here is the link:

 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gelatisscoop/2011/10/07/karen-anna-vog...

Now I am not going to give next week away other to say what we are going to be doing next week is just sic, and I mean that in a wonderful way, the best way. For those of you that don’t have younger kids or are not too hip to today’s jive, that means just off the hook, or cool. Yes, being sic right now is a good thing and does not involve any type of disease or germ, go figure. Look for a post on this week’s coming schedule maybe Sunday or Monday. You will not want to miss Monday’s show, it starts at 4pm EST, and it is an international event. There I gave you a clue, and it’s someone that I have been trying to nail down since day one. No more clues.

Tune in later today if you have any questions for these two international Best Selling Authors, just send them to me, or call into the show, the phone number is 1-949-270-5955.

Here are the goods on Karen Anna Vogel, she is the author of the “Amish Knitting Circle” series of digital short stories:

““Granny Weaver is praying for five women in her Old Order Amish community in Smicksburg, PA., but nothing seems to be happening. Spinning wool one day she ponders the fact that fibers wrapped around each other make a yarn that’s hard to break.  Maybe the women she sees unraveling need to be spun together so they don’t break.

So Granny starts a knitting circle to make items for tornado victims in Joplin, MO. She invites Maryann who looks too tired and needs a break from her eight children.  Ella seems mighty down since a doctor told her she can’t have children. Emma feels she’ll never get married because of her weight. Ruth has been depressed since the day she got married and won’t tell anyone why. Elizabeth never married to take care of her handicapped father, but others suspects she has a broken heart over a broken courtship.

Over the course of a year these women open up at the knitting circle. Their hearts are encouraged, being knit together in love as they face trials and troubles…together.”

About Karen Anna Vogel:

A trusted English friend among Amish in Western PA and Western NY, my four grown children call me an ‘Amish Addict.’ My husband of thirty years shares my addiction. Our Old Order Amish friends have taken us back to a time when life was slower. Slow enough to enjoy our faith, family and friends. Slow enough to make me relax and join a knitting circle and learn to spin wool. Wanting to share what I’ve learned from these gentle people led me to write Amish fiction. I’m represented by Joyce Hart of Hartline Literary Agency and blog under Amish Crossings: http://karenannavogel.blogspot.com/   Member of Pittsburgh East Scribes and ACFW. “

Beverly Lewis newest release is “The Mercy” part of “The Rose Trilogy”:

 I've had my nose in a book, for as long as I remember. When I was about 9 years old, I started writing my own stories. By sixth grade, I'd hand-written a 66-page semi-autobiographical book titled, "She Shall Have Music."

After I was married and our three children were in middle school, I began submitting articles and short fiction to various magazines.

My first book (Holly's First Love) was published in May 1993, the start of a 14-book series for pre-teen girls. Soon after, my first chapter book was published for 7-10-year-old readers ("Big Bad Beans") which later became part of my 24-book series, The Cul-de-Sac Kids. I wrote another long-running series for girls, titled "SummerHill Secrets," which was set very close to Neffsville, PA, where I grew up--near the heart of Amish country.

But it was the story of my grandmother Ada Buchwalter's shunning by her ultra-strict father and subsequently her old order Mennonite community that nudged me toward writing adult fiction. THE SHUNNING was published in 1997 by Bethany House Publishers, and along with its sequels, has touched a nerve in millions of readers intrigued by the Plain culture of Lancaster County, PA. The Hallmark Channel will air the movie, "Beverly Lewis's The Shunning" on April 16, 2011 at 9 EDT/8 Central.

My passion for Amish-related stories continues to keep me up at night, and I'm presently writing the third book in my new series: The Rose Trilogy, due out September '11.

When I'm between writing deadlines, I enjoy hiking in the Rocky Mountains with my husband. Cooking from scratch, playing Mozart at the piano, and making family memory albums, as well as traveling to meet my devoted readers during book tours, are some of my very favorite things. I also adore reading biographies and memoirs, as well as classic literature.”