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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Joan Hochstetler – Author of One Holy Night

Five Things You Didn’t Know About J. M. Hochstetler

1. I talk to myself when I’m alone. Um . . . well, sometimes I also talk to myself when I forget I’m not alone!

2. I may seem calm on the surface, but inside I’m a screaming maniac.

3. I actually love to research arcane facts. I can spend hours digging out one piece of information that never makes it into my story. I guess it’s the thrill of the hunt.

4. My internal editor never shuts up. Sigh.

5. Although I was born in Indiana, my first language was German. Actually, that might explain a lot . . .

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J. M. Hochstetler was born in central Indiana, the daughter of Mennonite farmers, and graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Germanic languages. She is the author of Daughter of Liberty, Native Son, and Wind of the Spirit, the first three books of the American Patriot Series about the American Revolution. One Holy Night, a modern-day retelling of the nativity story, is the 2009 Christian Small Publishers Fiction Book of the Year and a finalist for the 2009 American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year. You can learn more about Joan and her books at www.jmhochstetler.com, http://americanpatriotseries.blogspot.com/, and http://oneholynight.blogspot.com/.