J. M. Hochstetler

• Age: 60
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Capricorn
• Zodiac Year: Boar
• Industry: Publishing
• Occupation: author, editor, publisher
• Location: Nashville : Tennessee : United States

About Me

J. M. Hochstetler graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Germanic languages. In the mid 1990s, she worked for The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, assisting with the development and production of Freedom Speaks, a weekly television program devoted to First Amendment rights, broadcast nationally on PBS. She was subsequently an editor with Abingdon Press for twelve years before founding her own small press, Sheaf House Publishers, in 2006 to publish extraordinary fiction by fresh new voices.

Born and reared in central Indiana, the daughter of Mennonite farmers, Hochstetler's interest in the American colonial and Revolutionary War eras grew out of the experiences of her Anabaptist ancestors who immigrated to America from Europe seeking religious freedom. With her cousin, author Bob Hostetler, she is writing a novel titled Northkill that is based on the massacre of three of their Amish Mennonite ancestors on the Pennsylvania frontier during the French and Indian War, the Indian captivity of the attack’s survivors, and their eventual return home.

Interests

• history
• writing
• travel
• gardening
• crafts
• interior decorating
• camping in our fifth wheel trailer
• driving anywhere in my Mini Cooper

Favorite Movies

• It Happened One Night
• The Birds
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• You've Got Mail
• The Lord of the Rings series
• Star Wars series
• Shrek series
• The Princess Bride
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Joy Luck Club
• Time Bandits
• Edward Scissorhands
• Gone with the Wind
• The Black Stallion
• The Godfather
• Raising Arizona
• Moonstruck
• Superman Returns
• Spiderman series
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Favorite Music

• WWII songs
• modern country
• jazz
• classical
• the old hymns
• some praise choruses
• and a teeny bit of gospel

Favorite Books

• Jane Eyre
• Green Dolphin Street
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Northwest Passage
• Random Harvest
• Lost Horizon
• Lord of the Rings
• The Hobbit
• The God of Small Things
• Outlander
• Kissing Adrien
• The Black Stallion
• Captain Blood
• The Sea Hawk
• Scaramouche
• The Shrine at Altamira

J. M. Hochstetler's Blogs

	Blog Name	Team Members
	Favorite PASTimes	Cindy Thomson Tricia Goyer Jill Eileen Smith Kathleen Rouser Becky Kathleen Fuller Rosslyn Elliott Terry Burns
	One Holy Night
	PASTimes	Jill Eileen Smith Jenny Cindy Thomson Beth Goddard
	Publishing Dream
	Middle Tennessee Christian Writers (MTCW)	Carol Collett Karen Eve michael snyder Tamara Leigh Diane Moody Jill Johnson Kaye Dacus Kathy Harris
	The American Patriot Series