Real Life is Better Than Fiction

Today's homeschooling/mom/author is probably one many of you already know - Amish author Laura V. Hilton. Laura is an award-winning, sought-after author with almost twenty Amish, contemporary, and historical romances. When she’s not writing, she reviews books for her blogs, and writes devotionals for blog posts for Seriously Write and Putting on the New. Laura and her pastor-husband have five children and a hyper dog named Skye. They currently live in Arkansas. One son is in the U.S. Coast Guard. She is a pastor’s wife, and homeschools her two youngest children. When she’s not writing, Laura enjoys reading, and visiting lighthouses and waterfalls. Her favorite season is winter, her favorite holiday is Christmas.Welcome, Laura! How long have you been homeschooling?    Wow. Years and years. I started when my oldest son (now 26) was five years old and I am still homeschooling my youngest two (currently 15 and 12.)  I have five children. How long have you been ...

I have yet another homeschool-mom-author sharing with us today . Please welcome, Intisar Khanani How long have you been homeschooling? I suppose you could say we're just starting, since my eldest is finishing up first grade, but what that really means is I've been a stay at home mom the last seven years, working up to homeschooling this past year. :) How long have you been writing? Since I can remember! However, I didn't get serious about publishing until 2012, when I decided to quit the last ten hours a week I was working to stay home completely with my daughters. I figured if I was going to be home, I'd have LOTS of time to write--just kidding! But I knew I'd need some non-mommy related endeavor to keep me sane, and what could be better than a "job" that I could do when the kids were in bed? What gave you the writing bug? I've always had it--I have been writing and telling stories my whole life. In fact, those occasional timeframes whe...

I have another homeschooled student author on the blog today. I love seeing young people make an impact on the writing world! Welcome, Grace! Hello, my name is Grace Fay and I am a homeschooled Texan living in Dallas with my husband! I was homeschooled all the way through high school, and am the oldest of nine kids. I definitely also plan to homeschool my own kids one day! I write under my maiden name, J. Grace Pennington. How long have you been writing? Since I was about five years old, so over twenty years! I started publishing in 2012, when I was twenty-two years old, but I've been writing basically all my life. What gave you the writing bug? I was an early and prolific reader, and one afternoon I was bored while my mom was taking her afternoon nap and decided to write a book of my own. I've always loved stories. Do you remember the first story you wrote? Yes--at five years old I wrote (and illustrated) a small book called "If I Had Three Wishes....