What was your favorite picture book as a kid?
The book was called something like Poems to Read to the Very Young, and I still remember some of the verses I found inside this glorious treasury.

What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading?
Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach.  Something about its cover drew me to it in my elementary school’s library. The cover was so deliciously crinkly!

What was your most favorite book in high school?
A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall came to me during a spiritually pivotal time in my life. My copy is dogeared.

What was your least favorite book in high school?
My geometry textbook! (Oh, the humanity!)

What was the last novel you read?
In the Company of Others by Jan Karon

What was the last nonfiction book you read?
Korean Pentecost by William N. Blair (I’m reading four other nonfiction books, according to my given mood in a day or week.)

Which book lived up to the hype (from the past 1-2 years)?
The Fourteenth Colony by Mike Bunn. This was history I never knew about.

Which book do you love that needs more hype?
Any of my six Easton Series novels!

Next novel on your TBR (up to three).
Tea with Elephants by Robin Jones Gunn. I loved her Sisterchicks Series. I’m also looking forward to Jan Karon’s new novel.

Next nonfiction on your TBR (up to three).
John Ferling’s upcoming book about baseball in the 1940s and 50s; anything by Jennifer L. Scott.

Tell us about your newest release/upcoming release.
I am so excited about my upcoming novel, East of the Sun! The Lord just “gave” this story to me, and I ran with the inspiration. It’s book one in my new Heirs of Freedom Series with Elk Lake Publishing, a winsome, uplifting story about a Korean War MASH nurse and a wounded North Korean officer who doesn’t seem to be who his paperwork says he is. This novel is about the way God blesses families generationally, about love in a way we seldom see modeled, about hope between a rock and a hard place.

Is there anything else you’d like to share?
I have written extensively and done podcasts on American revivals, and I was recently interviewed for a documentary on that subject. I don’t have a release date yet for the program. We are living out God’s ongoing plan for human history, and I’m rejoicing to be sharing it with so many wonderful people. I sometimes wonder what C.S. Lewis would have to say about this era?

My motto is “Encouraging History.”

Every year during Easton, Pennsylvania’s Heritage Days, my husband and I portray my ancestor, Colonel Peter Kichline (star of the Easton Series) and his wife Catherine during the Parade of Patriots. Easton was one of the first three places where the Declaration of Independence was read publicly.

REBECCA PRICE JANNEY is a historian and multi-award-winning author of twenty-six books, including her beloved Easton Series, Sweet, Sweet Spirit: One Woman’s Spiritual Journey to the Asbury College Revival, and Morning Glory. She is currently writing East of the Sun, a novel about the Korean War, due for an early 2025 release.

She began writing professionally at the age of fourteen and by the following year was covering the Philadelphia Phillies. A lover of American history, she earned degrees in that subject from Lafayette College and Princeton Seminary, and a doctorate from Biblical Seminary. Rebecca is a popular speaker and appears regularly on radio shows and her podcast, “American Stories.” She resides with her husband, son, and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley where her ancestors have lived since the 1740s.

www.rebeccapricejanney.com
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