Amber Stockton - Author, Speaker & Web Site Designer

Hi, I'm Amber, but my friends call me Tiff, short for Tiffany, my first name. I am in my 30's, married the love of my life in July 2007, have an adorable baby girl named Victoria, and live in beautiful Colorado just east of the Front Range of the Rockies. Ultimately, my dream is to own horses and live in a one-level rancher or log cabin. For now, I will remain where I am and do what I love—design web sites and write.

*SOLD* My very first book, Promises, Promises, released in February 2008. It's a historical fiction set in Delaware during the Colonial period and the Great Awakening. The other 2 books in the series are Quills & Promises (July 2008) and Deceptive Promises (December 2008). In March 2010, they will be repackaged for a state set entitled Liberty's Promise. I have also sold another series set in historical Michigan during the Industrial Revolution. The 3 books in that series will begin releasing in April 2009 and will be repackaged in 2010.

Thanks to the gentle nudging of a fellow author -- Tracie Peterson -- in 2002, I joined the American Christian Fiction Writers and wouldn't be published today without them. For those of you who are also fiction writers looking for a wonderful support group, check them out!

My favorite food is Italian; I sing all the time, and I once worked with my church choir to do a professional recording for a music CD of our performances.

Here is a picture of our "puppy" to the left. Her name is Roxie. She's half Border Collie, half Flat-Haired Retriever.

I love to hear from those who visit this site. You can find my mailing address or leave your email message through the Contact page.

Although I could go into full detail to answer this question, I'll let another professional web site do the work for me.

When people ask me what I write and I answer "Inspirational fiction," I usually receive a blank or puzzled stare in response. Many readers simply don't understand what makes the women's fiction or romances that I write different from those written by authors in the general market.

"Christian fiction is a category of stories written by novelists whose Christian world view is woven into the fabric of the plot and character development.

"Although this definition might seem either simplistic on the one hand or overly broad on the other, this grouping of novels is as comprehensive and as varied in age, interest, and spiritual depth as its readership.

"C.S. Lewis resisted the label "Christian" for his novels, contending that he was simply creating a story. But whether overtly or subtly, Lewis' fiction came out of his understanding of God and of the universe He created, out of the knowledge that God cares deeply about His creation that has been damaged by sin, and He joined the human race to build a bridge back to himself.

"This bridge between God and humanity will in some way inform and characterize every Christian novel.

"Good fiction, whether or not it is identified as Christian, will provide a memorable reading experience that captures the imagination, inspires, challenges, and educates. Fiction published for the Christian book market does not include the gratuitous demonstration of sin - whether language, violence, sexual situations, or the more hidden sins of idolatry and self-worship. Credible characters in a fallen world, of course, will sin. But the Christian novel's presentation of the grit and grime of human circumstance will not be done for its own sake or to titillate, but to point the reader toward hope, toward God.

"Because the essence of Christianity is a relationship with God, a Christian novelists' well-conceived story will in some way, whether directly or indirectly, add insight to the reader's understanding of life, of faith, and of the Creator's yearning over His creation."

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He shall make your paths straight." — Proverbs 3:5-6

"Do not follow where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'" — Erma Bombeck

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it." — C. S. Lewis

"I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die." — Isaac Asimov

"I cannot live without books." — Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1815

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." — G.K. Chesterton

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new." — Samuel Johnson

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." — E.L. Doctorow

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