Joice Overton

Joice Overton

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Joice Overton has published four books to date, with one having gone to second edition in 2003. The first three books were published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. and are non-fiction covering the subjects of Cowboys and Native Americans. Joice's first books have been inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.

She also published a non-fiction of a biographical nature, about the life of a survivor.

Joice lives and writes from a small horse ranch in Eastern Oregon, where she has raised a family and built a home alongside the Columbia River.

Joice has been interviewed by local TV stations and Radio stations, and she has done book signings at Barnes and Nobles, Hamleys of Pendleton, and others.

Choosing her own favorite subject, ‘Historical Native American’ as the setting, her first novel The Spirit Taker, is coming soon from Vanilla Heart Publishing. The Spirit Taker is an historical romance with an 1880 setting that begins in Lynchburg, VA, just following the Civil War and concludes in the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana Territory.

Joice has also had multiple short articles published by The New England Antique Journal, Cowboys and Indians, The West Coast Peddler, CIM Magazine, and other magazines. She was also a staff writer for Leanin’ Tree Publications.

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<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>&quot;A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style.&quot;</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>

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