Books In Sync Recognizes Fiction Novelist And Playwright Joyce Keller Walsh For A Second Year

About The Author:

Joyce Walsh has published three books of ‘The Pittsley County Chronicles’, and a fourth unrelated novel, ‘Winterkill’. The author is also an award-winning playwright and recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council as well as from the Artists Foundation of Massachusetts.

Joyce Walsh has a Bachelor's Degree (English) from New York University and a Master's Degree (Psychology) from Harvard University. She has worked extensively in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and was the Managing Editor of Cancer Causes and Control, an international journal of cancer epidemiology. She has published numerous non-fiction articles and is a free-lance editor specializing in epidemiology and public health.

Co-Founder of Authors Without Borders:

http://www.awb6.com/

Awards:

Ø      Artist's Grant in Playwriting, Massachusetts Cultural Council, for full-length play, Kazorkis in Extremis

Ø      Best Original Script, American Regional Theatre Award, for full-length play, Gooseberry Tarts

Ø      Playwriting Fellowship, Artists Foundation of Massachusetts, for full-length play, The Relations of Paul Le Jeune

Plays:

Ø      Weaving Woolly Mammoths [full-length]; staged reading at Herring Run ArtsFest of "Huma's Loom," (Sept. 2002), "Little Silk Worms" (Sept. 2003), "Oh, Brother" (Sept. 2005); public reading, "The Fall of Fall Reeve," Middleboro Public Library [June 2004], staged reading, Culture*Park's 4th Annual Short Play Marathon, New Bedford, MA (Oct. 2005]; staged reading of "Huma's Loom," the "Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace & Justice Theater Festival"  in three venues on Cape Cod [June, 2005]; production of "Hair Weave" at the New England Academy of Theatre's NEAT Short Play Festival, New Haven, CT (June, 2005]

Ø      Kazorkis in Extremis, full-length; staged readings: NUWorks Program (Northeastern Univ.); CentaStage

Ø      (Boston)Gooseberry Tarts, full-length, production: Theatre One Productions [Middleboro, MA]

Ø      The Relations of Paul LeJeune, full-length, production: Playwrights Platform [Boston]

Ø      Rapture, full-length, production: Playwrights Platform (Boston)

Ø      Alma, one act, staged reading (Boston]; also televised, PBS

Ø      The Beast on the Throne, one act, staged reading (Boston)

Novels:

"The Pittsley County Chronicles"

Juckets and Swamp Yankees, Infinity Publishers, 2008

Bog Men, Publish America, 2007

Winterkill, Spinsters Ink, 2009

Strumin' the Banjo Moon – To be completed, 2009

Featured Book: Juckets and Swamp Yankees by Joyce Walsh

Book One and Two in ‘The Pittsley County Chronicles-Trilogy’

In Juckets, the story begins with the disappearance of the little Bradburn girl the day before a blizzard. The entire town turns out to search for her, but what they do not know (and will not know until the following Spring) is that she was brutally murdered. Psychology professor, Julia Arnault, discovers the body in Pittsley Woods. As she pursues the investigation, she begins to fear that the man she is in love with may be a serial killer. Meanwhile, veterinarian Adam Sabeski leads Julia into a Deliverance-like world of backwoods New England to find both evil and humanity in unexpected ways.

Swamp Yankees, the sequel to Juckets, is the second volume of The Pittsley Chronicles-the fictional New England setting comparable to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. While Adam Sabeski is engaged in preventing his Swamp Yankee friend, Cutter, from seceding from the rural town of Pittsley and bringing the entire government down on his head, psychologist Julia Arnault is trying to solve a 20-year-old murder. Desperate to help her suicidal patient, Julia steps outside the boundaries of her office to investigate her patient's history, thereby defying her supervisor, risking her job, clashing with Adam, and jeopardizing her own life.

Book Details:

Paperback: 491 pages

Publisher: Infinity Publishing (June 27, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0741446715

ISBN-13: 978-0741446718

Genre: Fiction/Suspense

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List Price: $22.95

Amazon Purchase Link

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Buy Books On The Web Purchase Link

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Joyce Keller Walsh Joined Books In Sync In June 2009

Website (s):

www.joycewalsh.com

http://www.awb6.com/

Joyce Walsh E-mail Address

thewriteway1@comcast.net

Visit Joyce Keller Walsh’s Webpage On Books In Sync

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Submission Date June 2010