Joyce recently lost her husband and has moved from Midland, Texas to Humble, Texas to be close to family. She has two daughters and four granddaughters, She is also close to her sister, Gay, who lives five minutes away and her other sister, La Jean, who lives in Beaumont, Texas.
Her latest book, "Glory Lost," was released on 08/01/2022 by Black Opal Books. It is about a young girl who enlists in the Union Army, is a Sharpshooter, and joins Sherman through Atlanta and his March to the Sea.
She has self-published five books. The first three are historical fiction in a series titled "The Pearl of the Orient." The books are "A Healing Place," "Blessed Are the Merciful," and "The Unsurrendered."
She has also self-published a children's book, "Mr Grumpy Lizard Meets the Giggling Girls."
She has participated in one round robin novel, "Gryffon Master, Curse of the Lich King," and three anthologies, "Lava Storm," "Dangerous Days," and "World of Pirates."
She has also become a Certified Copy Editor and has experience with two anthologies and three novels as well as participating in critique groups for the last six years.
.She can be found at
http://jshaughnessyauthor.blogspot.com and http://facebook.com/joyceshaughnessya...
“Drained of faith, I kneel and hail thee as my Lord,I ask not life, thou need not swerve the bullet,I ask but strength to ride the wave, andone more thing, teach me to hate”
“After months of rumors, inference, and horrible miscalculations, the impossible had happened. The U.S. Pacific fleet lay twisted anad burning at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in Honolulu. Had he been wrong about Japan not taking an offensive right now? God, he had thousands of men and women to think of, and he feared in his heart that it might not turn out the way he had seen it. He felt doomed, almost paralyzed by his gross miscalculation. He determined, however, that he would not let the word out about Pearl Harbor until he could meet with his American strategists and Philippine President Manuel Quezon.”