Character Interview – Willow Miller Stoltzfus from Willow: Bride of Pennsylvania

It’s been so much fun to bring some of my older characters up out of the dust of past books to hang out with them that I’m just going to keep going with it. Here’s a character who I spent a lot of time with last year, and who inadvertently ignited a much bigger fire of inspiration. It is, of course, Willow Miller from Willow: Bride of Pennsylvania, part of the epic American Mail-Order Brides series.

 

Me: It’s nice to talk to you again, Willow. 

Willow: (smiles sweetly) It’s nice to be talked to. 

Me: So I understand that prior to the start of your story, you had a connection to the Amish church? 

Willow: Yes. My grandfather was Amish, but he left the church. I’ve always been interested in my heritage, though. As I understand it, there was a lot of turmoil and strife within the Church during my grandfather’s time, as far back as the 1860s. 

Me: But your story takes place in 1890? 

Willow: Yes, it does. Although I understand that you’ve taken a lot of elements of mine and Amos’s story and moved it back to that more tumultuous time period in the history of the Amish church, the 1870s, for another project. 

Me: Shh! Don’t tell about that project yet.