March 4, 2024
Hi, I'm Jo, coming to you from Substack.
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Below, please feel free to peruse my short booklets, plus The Frog's Song, a regular book published by Regal Publishing. It's available on Amazon—kindle and paperback. I have no control over pricing.
The Frog’s Song is the story of how one family (mine) took leave of their senses and lived off the grid on a tropical Island for one year.
The Frog’s Song by Joyce Davis
Non-fiction, available on Amazon.
Where Tiger’s Belch
by Jewell d
Fiction, available on Amazon, or readable on Substack with a Paid subscription.
Once a tiger belched at the very spot where you find your purpose. Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist, called it one’s “Personal Legend.”
Where The Tiger’s Belch is the fictional account of one girls venture into the jungle to find her spot.
Mother’s Letters,…and mine
By Joyce Davis
Non-fiction. Available on Amazon.
My mother’s letters written to the Holt Adoption Agency between the years of 1956 and 1987. They are my mother’s own words where she laid her heart bare to Grandma Holt.
It is a personal account of adopting 3 Korean children and watching them grow. The agency kept the letters all the years until Mom died.
After Mom’s death, they sent xeroxed copies of the letters to her husband who gave them to my sister who gave them to me. I assembled them and added commentary for there was more to the story I don’t believe my mother knew about. (Mom loved Zenias, buy the way, the flowers on the cover.)
A Dog, God, & Me
by Joyce Davis
Fiction, available on Amazon.
On Gabe’s and my walk into the forest, he began digging. I figured it was for a mouse or a vole, but what he unearthed was a book, an interactive book. It you moved the bookmark God would speak to you from that page.
Take The Leap
by Jewell D
Non-fiction, available on Substack with a paid subscription.
Once this was presented on my blog,and got more hits and comments than any other. Some people wanted more. Here’s more.
Jo’s Newsletter— Introduction
Forever free.
Your Story Matters
Non-fiction, excerpt available Free on Substack.