Recent Works
New Fiction - Don't Miss
Nouveau Noir
The Gamay Nouveau is here--and it’s killer.
Someone is poisoning the wine in Napa Valley, but who? Is it bioterrorism?
Revenge? Industrial espionage?
Nouveau Noir tails dyslexic FBI Art Crimes agent Wynn Cabot as she travels
to California in search of paintings stolen from the Napa tasting room of Domaine
Laurent winery. Before she's through she's solved the mystery of who poisoned
Domaine Laurent's promising release of Gamay Nouveau – and why.
Published by Level Best Books
Screenplays
The Bequest
A woman inherits three million dollars from a male acquaintance, but her husband can't accept it and she is forced to choose …
the husband, or the bequest?
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Joan's
play, Bequest, was chosen as the best of
39 entries. Bequest is " layered,
developed, complex, intense and psychologically
astute...altogether brilliant!" - Final
Judge, British screenwriter, Dr Helen Jacey.
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The Pig Cage
An American tourist, desperate to travel in Shanghai, loses her passport and must evade the Chinese and American authorities - or be arrested as a spy. |
Stealing First
Co-written with Cynthia Drew – One of Story Pros’ Top 3 Scripts 2008 Family/Teen Division; Quarterfinalist, 2008 Page Awards(family drama); 2008 finalist, screenplay.com
In the 1950’s South, a white teenager recruits a black coach to lead his ragtag baseball team to the championship.
Stage Plays
Not Quite Heaven
3rd Place Winner, McLaren National Comedy Contest (full-length, comedy)
Divorced loner Jack vows to sit on a billboard until the town council hears his argument for a stop light – but the mayor, who’s also Jack’s ex-wife, wants him down.
Phoenix Tattoo
Two teenage girls meet up with a tattoo artist and find that many of life’s choices leave permanent marks.
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