West, Joan

From a stay-at-home mom to an analyst for a fortune five hundred corporation and back to college for a doctorate to put on the hat of a college professor, Joan West has moved from one career to another. After retiring from teaching, she expanded on the article writing niche she had carved out for herself into writing a weekly newspaper column and writing this novel. It spent a good deal of that time on a shelf while its author pursued other avenues that appealed to her. As a member of a writers' group, she felt that new authors were receiving short shrift from agents and editors and decided to...