JoAnne

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Publishing
• Occupation: Editor
• Location: Ohio

About Me

After several job-hops since I graduated from Cedarville University in 2002, God has blessed me with my dream job as a Christian fiction editor. I’ve been reading and writing ever since my first grade teacher encouraged me to do book reports once she realized the normal class work left me rather bored. (Yep, I was a "nerd"!) My editing career began when my school friends discovered it was a good idea to have me look over their homework before they handed it in. From there, God opened door after door of experience for me. I have yet to put pen to paper (er...fingers to keyboard) on a fiction novel of my own, but someday I hope to. For now, I’ll keep reading, editing, and soaking in everything I possibly can about Christian publishing.

Interests

• My Savior
• My husband
• My daughter
• My family
• My friends
• My church
• My job
• Reading
• Writing
• Talking
• Laughing
• Traveling
• Being outdoors
• Being outdoors on a beach!
• Listening to music and going to concerts
• Collecting Boyds Bears
• Watching movies and my favorite TV shows on DVD

Favorite Movies

• In no particular order: Anne of Green Gables
• Anne of Avonlea
• The Parent Trap (original and remake)
• Home Alone
• Big Fat Liar (not to be confused with Liar Liar)
• Elf
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Ever After
• Hitch
• Ocean's Eleven & Twelve
• The Italian Job
• Lonesome Dove
• Shrek
• Hook
• Monsters Inc.
• The Incredibles
• Sahara
• Sweet Home Alabama
• (I love movies!)

Favorite Music

• Caedmon's Call
• Steven Curtis Chapman
• Casting Crowns
• Third Day
• Nichole Nordeman
• Chris Rice
• Switchfoot
• Watermark
• Chris Tomlin
• MercyMe
• Shaun Groves

Favorite Books

• The ones I could read again and again: The Bible
• The Zion Covenant series by Brock and Bodie Thoene
• The Love Comes Softly Series by Janette Oke
• This Present Darkness & Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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