The book takes place in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania. She tells the story of the whole ordeal in her memoir, The Gift of Love.Ī Gift of Grace is the first book in the Kauffman Amish Bakery series. Hers went a woman while that woman’s husband gave a kidney to her husband. Amy and her husband matched with another couple and they ended up swapping kidneys. The book is based on her own experience of donating which lead to her husband getting a kidney transplant. In addition to her many fiction books, Amy also wrote a memoir about kidney donation. Clipston had a fascination with the Amish from a young age and was drawn to their simplicity and faith. She has said that she loves writing about the Amish and uses an Amish friend from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for help in researching these books. She is the author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery Series, the Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel Series, the Amish Heirloom Series, the Amish Homestead Series, and the Amish Marketplace Series. Her first book, A Gift of Grace, was sold in 2007.Ĭlipston is well known for her multiple Amish series of books. She also learned a bit about literary agents and was able to get signed with one. In these meetings, she realized that she wanted to write and learned how to plot, write, and edit a novel on her own. She attended a meeting and was introduced to writers of all experience levels. Amy didn’t even admit to her husband at this time that she was a writer.Īmy’s life would change when she found a local fiction writing group in her area known as the Chesapeake Romance Writers. She never shared her stories with anyone except for a few close friends. She continued to write at this time as a hobby and to de-stress after work. She originally thought that it might be a summer job, but it ended up turning into an eleven-year career. She earned her degree in communications there and also met her husband at school.Īfter college, Amy went to work with the U.S. After graduating high school in Virginia, Amy went on to attend Virginia Wesleyan University in Norfolk. She always considered writing to be a hobby and never really considered it to be a potential career. Her first stories were written when she and a friend would write silly stories in elementary school. Clipston has sold more than one million books in her career thus far.Ĭlipston grew up in New Jersey and started writing at a very young age.
She is the author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery series, the Roadside Assistance series, the Hearts of Lancaster Grand Hotel series, the Amish Marketplace, and many more. Amy Clipston is an award-winning American author who writes book series.
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