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Joyce D

Joyce D

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I am the author of two sweet medieval romances, "Loyalty's Web" (a 2007 Whitney Award Finalist) and "Illuminations of the Heart" (a 2009 Whitney Award Finalist). I also have a short medieval Christmas story titled "An Epiphany Gift for Robin" published in the Christmas anthology, "Stolen Christmas".
  • AZ, USA
  • member since March 29, 2008

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  • Author Aleja Bennett's 10 Paper back & 8 Kindle Books (2011) http://facebook.com/AuthorAlejaBennett

    Author Aleja Bennett's 10 Paper back & 8 Kindle Books (2011) http://facebook.com/AuthorAlejaBennett says

    Hi, Joyce and thanks for adding me as a friend. I write lovely poems and if you like this one below maybe you will consider adding my two books on your shelf. If not you can comment about this poem at http://alejabennett.com

    I Love you

    I love you to the moon
    I love you to the end of the planets.
    I love you till there's no love in the equator,
    I love you knowing nothing could be greater,
    I will love you from now until decades later.
    Let me love you now, not later.
    Let me love you to
    Northern skies,
    Western hemispheres,
    Without worries, fears or cares.
    Allow me to love you,
    Until you care, blossom up,
    Open up-heal from old wounds
    that you suddenly, slowly start to share.
    Our love is genuine-it can't compare.
    Now your love has opened up wide
    Like a brand new gift on Christmas day
    See what happens when you allow
    Someone to love you.

    Please visit my website and sign the guest book
    with your comments. Thanks for being my friend on the net
    http://alejabennett.com
    Only The Strong Can Survive ISBN-978-1-4137-9237-9
    Aleja's beautiful Poetic Strategy In Recovery ISBN-978-1-60474-730-0

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Author Aleja Bennett's 10 Paper back & 8 Kindle Books (2011) http://facebook.com/AuthorAlejaBennett

    Author Aleja Bennett's 10 Paper back & 8 Kindle Books (2011) http://facebook.com/AuthorAlejaBennett says

    Hi, my name is Aleja Bennett an Author of two self help poetry books.
    Surviving childhood abuse by the hands of my adopted parents led me
    on a writing journey that has changed my life and others as well.
    I'm glad to be here. How about you? Fine I do hope. Stay in touch okay.
    Please tell a friend about me and add my books to your lives. You will
    be glad that you did. My books are now in hard cover and below are the links.
    If you know someone that needs to be uplifted from abuse-pain-rejections-broken
    relationships-loss-negativity then my positive books with enable them
    to live-love-heal and forgive.
    Only The Strong Can Survive-ISBN-13: 9781413792379
    http://alejabennett.blogspot.com
    http://www.publishamerica.net/product114605.html
    Aleja's Beautiful Poetic Strategy In Recovery:ISBN-13: 9781604747300
    http: //www.publishamerica.net/product107688.html

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  • Samantha M. W

    Samantha M. W says

    Hi, Joyce, I found you on shelfari.com and am bewildered by blogs like these... would prefer an e-mail, to samanthamwhite@comcast.net, since I know how to open and read e-mails. I am wondering whether you had to market Loyalty's Web to Leatherwood in order to get them to pick it up, or whether they just had their eyes open for a good new self-published. I'm working on my first and possibly only book (I'm in my 70's), am paying for top-level editing, and wouldn't mind self-publishing as a prelude to traditional publishing, if I knew how to make that happen. I'll appreciate any advice.

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  • jolene m

    jolene m says

    I am looking forward to reading your book- "loyalty's web".

    I noticed that you really like Skippyjon Jones- He is a favorite at my home!! I also really enjoy Kerry Blair's books too.

    Good luck in your writing! I am always so impressed with the way authors can use words and the stories come alive!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • krissree2002

    krissree2002 says

    Thanks for your friendship and a welcome note. Sure we enhance our lives through shelfari friendship and let the books do its share. Have a super week!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • krissree2002

    krissree2002 says

    Joyce is set to rejoice through her novels. I really look forward to reading them soon. Its God's gift to meet great authors in person at shelfari and cheriish their friendship too.

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  • Heather H

    Heather H says

    Hey, Joyce,
    I just finished rereading "When Love is Blind" and "Child of Music" by Mary Burchell. Those are two I really enjoy, though all the books in the Warrender Saga are good. Here are the write-ups on the two I listed above.
    WHEN LOVE IS BLIND- He had dashed all her professional hopes, and now fate had cruelly turned the tables, making Antoinette the unwitting cause of destroying his! But then, by a strange twist of events, she found herself in the employ of this onece-brilliant concert pianist. Although her efforts to help the embittered man often seemed hopeless, they were not to go unrewarded. Especially with the intervention of the famous operatic couple- Oscar and Anthea Warrender!
    CHILD OF MUSIC- They disliked each other from the start! From the moment she had had the misfortune to be seated next to Stephen Tarkman at a dinner party, Felicity had found him arrogant and abrasive. His obvious enjoyment in wielding power over others weaker than he was especially infuriating. Thank heaven the dynamic Oscar Warrender was on her side. For doing battle with Stephen over the talents of a gifted child was more than she could handle alone!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Jeanne C

    Jeanne C says

    Joyce-- I read your comment on Heather H's page, which I followed from the Georgette Heyer group that we belong to. You should check out our group discussions right now where we are discussing books to read after Georgette Heyer. We've listed some clean romances we've enjoyed. I also noticed that you belong to the LDS Authors and Readers group. Are you LDS? I am. I was glad to see other women looking for clean romance to read. I'll have to check out your book.

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  • Heather H

    Heather H says

    Hi Joyce! I saw that you're currently reading your Mary Burchell books. Let me know what you think. I have a few favorites I'd love to suggest to you. Of course, it helps if you love the world of opera, composers, and conductors.

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  • Anne P

    Anne P says

    My mom accidently took it back to the library with the other books and I haven't gotten around to go get it back.

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  • Ann B

    Ann B says

    Hi ! I just wanted to stop by and invite you to come and check out my new group called The Jane Austen Book Club! It's a great group of great Shelfarians who love to engage in all things Austen! I hope you will come and join us! Thanks!

    Annie

    http://www.shelfari.com/groups/27288/about

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  • Cheryl

    Cheryl says

    Thanks for the friendship add

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  • Heather H

    Heather H says

    Joyce,
    Yes, those are both music ones. Her music books start with "A Song Begins", introducing a conductor named Oscar Warrender who plays minor roles in the other books.
    Elusive Harmony : Lindley Harding was a singer nearing the end of his career; Laurence Morven was a new star-and rival-coming up over the horizon. And Lindley's daughter Natalie, who loved them both, found herself torn two ways as the bitterness grew between the two men. Was the situation going to ruin her life?
    Masquerade with Music: She couldn't reveal her true identity. Nor could Kate reveal it had been her ambition to become an opera star that prompted her to take a job in London with her famous uncle, Oscar Warrender. Two men were prepared to help her: Carlo, a handsome baritone who saw Kate as a way of furthering his own career; and Van, a musical journalist who seemed to want the best for her-but on his own terms. She needed them both...but her heart could choose only one.
    There you go. Those are the write-ups on the back cover of each book. I've got them all, I think, so let me know if you need info on any others.

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  • Heather H

    Heather H says

    Hey Joyce,
    Did you pick up a Mary Burchell yet? I'm curious to see if you enjoyed it.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Lisa M

    Lisa M says

    I'm still dusting the corners. ;-)

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  • Heather H

    Heather H says

    Also, since you teach piano, and you're interested in the Mary Burchells, there is one called "When Love is Blind" about a concert pianist who loses his sight in a car accident. Mary Burchell is british, so they all take place in England. That's a bonus for me, since I'm kind of an angophile (mostly because of Georgett Heyer:)) Anyway, one of my girlfriends from college who was also a music major got hooked on them, too.

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  • Heather H

    Heather H says

    Joyce,
    It's always great to meet another Heyer fan! I own most of her books, and I go on jags where I read them all in the space of a couple months. Great stories, and written before sex scenes became required for a romance. She really reminds me a lot of Jane Austen, though Austen was writing of her own time, whereas Heyer was writing of parents of grandparents time. I also love her sense of humor. Faro's Daughter, The Reluctant Widow, and the Unknown Ajax are some of the funniest ones, IMHO. Funny, with a bit of suspense thrown in. Always a delicious read. I'm glad to hear someone from the LDS readers group enjoys my tastes. The Regency group seems to enjoy the racier regencies they have now.
    My mom introduced my to Heyer when I was in junior high. My sisters and I all read them, but Candace doesn't enjoy them like I do.

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  • Anne P

    Anne P says

    How could I forget the Disney? It's the best! (No offense to Schaum). I like your "logo" too. :)

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  • Anne P

    Anne P says

    So far I really like the Count of Monte Cristo, even though I'm not very far along yet. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm always on the lookout for a good book.

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  • Candace Salima

    Candace Salima says

    I'm very excited to pick it up. Please do check out the LDS Authors and Readers group I've created. I'd like for it to be a group where we can have free discussion between authors and readers, improve the market, take over the world . . . huh, oh yeah. That last part was a slip. Heh, heh, heh.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )

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