Joanie’s passion for reading and love for books with “nail-biting suspense” inspires her to write contemporary suspense. Thankful for her God-given abilities, she strives to use those abilities to honor Him in all of her writing.
Joanie has a BS degree in Elementary Education and taught first grade for two years. After the last year of teaching, she married her husband, Ben and for thirty-six years has lived in a country home near Madison, Georgia. During the first thirty-three years of their marriage, Ben and Joanie operated a dairy farm. Then in 2012 they sold the Holstein dairy cows and built up a herd of Black Angus beef cattle. In their country home, they raised and homeschooled their three children, two girls and a boy. Joanie enjoys cooking, taking long walks, painting oil portraits, and caring for their home. She also enjoys babysitting and playing with her first grandson.
Her first book, “Alana Candler, Marked for Murder,” was published in 2013, and her second book, “A Memory Worth Dying For” was published in 2014. She is currently writing a three-book series located in the small town of Madison, Georgia.
