Joy has wanted to be a writer since she was a child. She remembers writing stories about animals and even making her own books for her family from folded pieces of paper. Later, while still in high school, she wrote an episode for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, a television show popular at the time. Even though she was only seventeen, she managed to obtain an agent from Samuel French, Inc. and her script made it all the way to Hollywood. “That rejection letter is still one of my most prized possessions.”

Educated as a nurse, she has written a health newsletter for Baby Boomers as well as many medical articles for journals and web sites, even having her own monthly health column at one point. But making up stories has always been her passion. Her first novel Second Chance centers around the many pitfalls of living in a stepfamily. Coming Together co-authored with Joyce Norman is her second novel and she is now at work on her third.

Joy shares her Arizona home with her husband and several fur-kids. “My ideal life would be sitting at my computer, drinking coffee and weaving tales.”

For more information, visit her at www.joycollins.com.