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Joyce Zeller |
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I've been a member of the Northwest Arkansas Writers Group for about eight years.
I enjoy writing romances with humor and usually animals, kids and cooking, because those are the things that dominated my life for the first forty years. My theme is usually loneliness and the human need to connect with another individual. I've written three novels--one of them twice--once as a romance and once as a young adult novel. The Haunting of Aaron House is about a farmhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania haunted by two maleveloent ghosts at war with each other. It explores the history of that area from 1700 to the present day through the eyes of temporary renters--a documentary film producer, his teenage son, and his wife, who is posessed by one of the ghosts. Love in a Small Town tells the story of the problems David, recently married and widowed, and his teenage step-daughter. She doesn't fit into the new life he's trying to make for them in a small town, gets into one scrape after another. Desperate, he looks for female advice, but the only woman who appeals to him can't stand him. Maddie's Choice is about cattle rustling in modern-day Arkansas, and the clash between Maddie, a romance writer from New York at the ranch for a two-month stay, and an ex-black-ops soldier with PTSD who manages the ranch. Two lonely boys, a meth-dealing motorcycle gang and an Angus Bull addicted to power bars, confuse the budding romance. I have not been published, yet. My life experiences being raised in a small town, later serving in the Army for two years, wife, mother, of four, membership in little theater as an actress, lighting and set designer, newspaper columnist and retail store owner and perfumer give me a lot to write about. I'm also an elected official in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and an appointed commissioner to the Advertising and Promotion Commission. My e-mail is jzeller9847@sbcglobal.net |
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