If you’ve not met Molly Jebber in person, this is your chance to listen to this delightful Amish Fiction Author as she introduces us to her Amish Charm Bakery Series. She takes us behind the scenes of her writing journey and the characters that hold a special place in her heart.  

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

Your 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.

Tracy: Hey there. Welcome to another episode of Buggy Talk. I'm your host, Tracy Fredrychowski, and each week I bring you the story behind the stories, along with the storytellers. For this week's episode, we have award-winning author, Molly Jebber, onboard, and she's here to talk to us about her Amish Charm Bakery Series.

Good morning, Molly. How are you today?

Molly: I'm good. Thank you for having me here today.

Tracy: I am so excited to have you on board. You know, we met for the very first time last year in, Shipshewana and we've had some great conversations about being an author and the whole process. I just really look up to you and all you've accomplished so far.

Molly: Well, thank you very much, but I, it was a pleasure to meet you, and it was nice to make a new friend. I loved it. 

Tracy:  It is, and we are both on the East coast. I'm in South Carolina, and you are in Florida, right? Yes. Before we talk about the Charm Series, I have seen a lot of stuff going online about the Christian Authors Network that you're part of. Can you tell us a little bit about that organization?

Molly: I love the Christian Authors Network, and I had no idea when I joined it, just how advantageous it was going to be. The president is always up on the latest and greatest in marketing publishing, screenwriting, you name it, having to do with the world of writing. So she, you know, she introduced me to, um, the international Christian voice and media conference that I went to for the first time last year. And that's where I got to meet some of the authors in person that are on the board that works with her.  

And then what they try to do is work to collaborate and put you in front of important people. Whether you're interested in screenwriting and publishing a book, they also have great ideas to market, but most of the members, our speakers, and I think almost all of them are speakers as well as authors. So they also give you those advantages. And then, she created a website with all our names on it for readers. They can go to ChristianAuthorsNetwork.com, click on your name, and find out where you're going to be speaking. And especially it's fun. You're going to be near them or in their hometown; then, they can put it on their calendar. And sometimes we'll do speaking events together. So you may get several authors in your location and a lot of his travel that has been a lot of fun. And I am blown away by all the things that these authors try and know much like you being very technically savvy with the podcast and, you know, film. 

And some of them want to do screenwriting and all this kind of stuff. And even it just kind of opens your world up a little bit for you to question some things are, for me, some things are not, you know, but I love learning about that. Anything that's going to help. And of course, we're all out for new marketing ways and also to help our readers,