Amish Romance Meets Teen Vampire Fiction

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=2141 ^ | William M. Briggs

[mattstat]

In a Books-A-Million in Lakeland, Florida I happened down an entire row, yards and yards long, of Amish Romances, a genre I had heard of but scarcely believed existed. Each book featured a bonneted woman staring pensively into the middle distance, her face hovering over a farm on which a horse and buggy are seen driving away.

But to get to that row, I had to pass through an aisle of Teen Fiction—hundreds more titles, each evidently staring a vampire-as-superhero-slash-seducer, Twilight style.

As I thought about the popularity of all these books, it hit me: a new genre, which must be a publishing sensation.

Vampire Amish!

And so I preview for you today, the opening scene of my forthcoming novel: Lancaster County’s Dark Secret.

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Jacob Burkholder glanced at his schedule and double-checked the room number for his first period Biology class. The teacher was Mister Harding, who, rumor had it, was Harrisburg High’s easiest ‘A’.

Jacob needed a soft class because this was his first semester in an actual, public school. One that was more than just one room and shared by children of all ages, that is.

This was because young Jacob was Amish. He was sixteen, out living among the English on his rumspringa, the time of youthful rebellion where Amish young men and women decide if they want to remain part of the fold or forever leave it behind. Whether they would accept the Baptism or renounce the Order and be forever sworn to secrecy. ...

[Rennes Templar]

I’m waiting for a novel to come out about a teen who morphs into an angel and goes about inpiring other teens to become the best that they can be in their lives and to contrbute all that is good, true and beautiful to our country and the world.

[Grut]

Mennonite bodice-rippers!

[hennie pennie]

I think he should submit it to a publisher, and explain that it is the first of a series of Vemire Amish Romances -- and be sure not to forget to include Amish QUILTING as a major subtheme.

LOL

If that doesn't work, then with a bit of tweaking he could surely turn it into a Bestselling HUMOR selection?