Briarwood Cottage (18 page)
The paper earned a gold star. And JoAnn kept writing.
She’s now written around one hundred novels (she quit keeping track long ago) and has been published in twenty-six countries. Two of her titles have been excerpted in
Cosmopolitan
magazine and her books have also been published by the
Doubleday
,
Rhapsody
,
Literary Guild
, and
Mystery Guild
book clubs. A member of the Romance Writers of America’s Honor Roll of best-selling authors, she’s won several awards.
Although the Yankees have yet to call her to New York to platoon center field, JoAnn figures making one out of two life goals isn’t bad.
Currently writing her Shelter Bay and River’s Bend series set in Oregon, where she and her husband grew up, and her Castlelough Irish series—from where her grandparents emigrated and one of her favorite places to visit—JoAnn lives with her husband and two rescued dogs (who pretty much rule the house) in the Pacific Northwest.
