An avid reader and history buff since childhood, award-winning author, journalist and screenwriter Amanda Lauer is the author of the Heaven Intended Civil War series. A World Such as Heaven Intended won the 2016 CALA Award and A Freedom Such as Heaven Intended earned the 2022 Catholic Media Book Awards: First Place Catholic Novels: Inspirational. In addition, Amanda has written two time-travel novels Anything But Groovy and Royal & Ancient and she contributed to the books Treasures: Visible & Invisible and Ashes: Visible & Invisible and worked with Archduke Eduard Habsburg to bring his children’s tale Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle to life. Amanda won the Red Letter Awards 2020 Best Writer or Screenplay for her work on the Christian film The Islands. 
 
When not at her desk writing, Amanda and John — her husband of 40+ years — enjoy traveling, biking, walking, hiking, golfing, attending concerts, watching home-improvement shows, and spending time with their four children and their spouses and eight of the sweetest grandchildren a grandma and grandpa could ask for!