Hey, I’m Joanne

Fantasy

I write fantasy. I love transporting to a completely new world and seeing how the people there live. I love seeing the problems we have in our lives played out in different settings with unique people with unique abilities. I love the fun of unusual settings. I love magic, all kinds of powers, time travel and dragons. I love to add in some romance in my stories. I’ve recently finished writing and editing a dark academia romantasy.

Young Adult

I guess I never grew up. I love the spirit of young adult novels. I love the energy that young adults bring to a story and their fire to step out into the world and change it.

I’m an Irish cognitive psychologist living in Singapore. I work with kids with learning difficulties. I’ve written novels for fun since I was twenty-four. I have three works in progress. All YA Fantasy. I love to read any book with great characters and a great story. I love hiking, taking photos with my husband and doing escape rooms with my kids.

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My Writing

Don’t Come Home Alive

YA Romantic Fantasy

Manifest Magic or Die Trying

Querying

Ellodie Sharp

YA Fantasy

Abandoned and forgotten by her parents, Ellodie is finally about to graduate DUMBS and get out from behind the forcefield stopping her from exploring the Tieralon. The only problem is that the graduating class is disappearing one by one. Using the forgetting power that’s destroyed her life, she must find out who’s behind the abductions before she’s the only student left in the school.

Revising

The Search for Magic

YA Fantasy

Ashlin discovers that if she just plays along with the crazy world she’s stumbled into, she can rewind time and save her sister from the drowning accident that killed her.

Revising

Favourite Books

Favourite Fiction Novels

  • The Hunger games by Suzanne Collins

  • Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

  • The Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo

  • The Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling

  • The Keeper of the Lost City Series by Shannon Messenger

  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown

  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Favourite Craft Books

  • The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass

  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

  • Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

  • Word Painting Revised Edition: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively by Rebecca Mcclanahan