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JOY E. HELD is an author, educator, editor, entrepreneur, and literary citizen responsible for this site and its contents. She is the author of
Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2020)
Writer Wellness Workbook: A Guided Workbook and Journal to Accompany Writer Wellness: A Writer’s Path to Health and Creativity (Headline Books, Inc., 2023)
The Mermaid Riot (Melange, 2024) Young Adult Historical Fantasy
She writes spicy historical fiction under a pen name.
She is the winner of multiple writing and book awards:
West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Novel, 1998.
New York Book Festival, Honorable Mention, Writer Wellness, 2020.
Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist, Writer Wellness, 2021.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, Member of the Year, 2020.
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers of America, First Book Award, 2020.
She is an adjunct faculty member in the Southern New Hampshire University Online MFA Creative Writing.
She is a proud graduate of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction.
She is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
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DEEP FAKE DOUBLE DOWN - Tawny Lindholm Thriller #8
by Debbie Burke
FINALIST for 2023 BOOKLIFE PRIZE
In the sinister world of deep fake videos, even the innocent can appear guilty.
Investigator Tawny Lindholm and her attorney-husband Tillman Rosenbaum struggle to protect an unjustly accused woman. They soon learn video can be faked but death is real. Torn from today’s headlines, this timely psychological thriller explores what is truth and what is illusion in the age of artificial intelligence.
https://books2read.com/deep-fake-double-down
While researching my recent book on the Civil War in Harrison County, West Virginia, I discovered a remarkable character that absolutely needed to be written about, Charles Leib.
Lieb, an actual person, led a short but remarkable life. He was one of those men in the mid-nineteenth century that seemed to meet anyone who was important during the day and be involved in some of the most important activities of the mid-19th century.
Leib was a medical doctor in Dubuque, Iowa, unwittingly ran guns into “Bleeding Kansas”, served as the Kansas territorial governor’s secretary, and moved to Chicago and became a newspaper editor. He was deeply involved with the 1856 presidential elections. He became a closet Republican and supported the election of his friend Abraham Lincoln. Upon Lincoln’s election he went with the presidential party and uncovered the initial assassination plot against Lincoln in Baltimore. At the very beginning of the Civil War, he was commissioned a Captain and sent to Clarksburg, Virginia as the Quartermaster General to establish the logistical operation there.
When he was ‘fired’ he moved initially to Cincinnati and once again gained success in the newspaper business. After the death of his wife, he moved west and became the secretary to the New Mexico territorial governor. He took a position as a contract surgeon with the US Army in Arizona and then went back into medical practice, dying in Prescott, Arizona at the age of 38.
Captain Leib was an honest man and as a result became the “Most Hated Man in Clarksburg” as he tried to deal honestly with the local nabobs as an agent of the US government.
While this is a historical fiction it’s based upon the life of an interesting and controversial individual and I hope that it is an enjoyable tale.
It can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Most-Hated-Man-Clarksburg/dp/B0C63M3SMC