Join us in this week's episode of Buggy Talk, as Jennifer Beckstrand introduces us to the Amish Christmas Miracles Collection. In this collection of Christmas love stories, fourteen Amish fiction authors come together to create a Christmas book you won't want to miss.

You’re listing to Buggy Talk, where some of your favorite authors, friends, and guests explore the simpler side of life. Here's your host Amish fiction author Tracy Fredrychowski. 

The following transcript is a shortened version of the original recording.

Tracy: Hey there. Welcome to another episode of Buggy Talk. I'm your host, Tracy Fredrychowski. Each week I'll bring you the story behind the stories along with the storytellers. This week's episode, we have award-winning Amish fiction author, Jennifer Beckstrand. Hello Jennifer. 

Jennifer: Hello, Tracy. Thank you for having me on today. 

Tracy:  Well, thank you so much for joining us. We have so many exciting things to chat about. One being the Amish Christmas Miracles Collection. I have to say as being one of the authors involved in this project; I'm pretty excited.

Tracy:  What inspired you to head up this project? 

Jennifer:  Well, you know, it's been a lot of years that I have wanted to do a collection with several different Amish authors. I have been thinking about it for a very long time. And last year I was on a call with Jennifer Spredemann, and she mentioned that she wanted to do it and we talked about it for a few minutes, and then we kind of let it go. And then I don't know what happened, something clicked in my head just a few months ago, and I thought, I want to do this, and I want to do something for Christmas. So, I contacted Jennifer Spredeman and said, do you want to do this? Let's do it. And she said yes. And then we brought Rachel Good on board. And so the three of us have kind of headed up this collection, and we're just so excited about it. It's going to be a fun thing. And I am glad about the authors that are, contributing and participating with us. It's just going to be an enjoyable collection of Christmas stories. 

Tracy:  Can you tell us how you decided which authors you were going to include? 

Jennifer:  Well, I made a list, and Jennifer Spredemann made a list, and Rachel made a list, and we started going down our list and ask can people. We definitely wanted a variety. We wanted some, some people who are new to Amish fiction and others who've been writing for a lot of years. It’s exciting to see all these authors come together, the different experiences they have, but also just how excited and willing they all are to do this.

Tracy: Can you share with us who are all going to be part of this? 

Jennifer:  Yes. So the authors that we have involved are me, Jennifer Beckstrand, Kathleen Fuller, Lenora Worth, Adina Senft, Laura Bradford, Jennifer Beckstrand, Jennifer (J.E.B.) Spredemann, Rachel J. Good, Laura V. Hilton, Mary Alford, Loree Lough, Dana R. Lynn, Susan Simpson, Tracy Fredrychowski, Ashley Emma. Serina Miller and Laura Bradford. That is quite a list. I'm excited about the different voices that we're going to get in the collection. I 

Tracy: So tell us when can we expect this collection to be released?

Jennifer:  So it will be released on November 10th, and right now, it's available on preorder. So anybody can go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and preorder it. It's only 99 cents, so it's going to pack a lot of punch for 99 cents. It will be released November 10th, and then for a week it will be 99 cents an