The valedictorian of her high school graduating class, Joyce Sterling Scarbrough is an intelligent Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. She's lived all her life in southern Alabama, she's the mother of three gifted children, and she's been married for 26 years to the love of her life.

Joyce was formerly the senior editor for Champagne Books. She's the president of her local writers' guild and is active in the Quill Masters critique group.

Her L&L Dreamspell Books and Anthologies:

Symmetry

Dreamspell Goddess - Featuring "Heart's Tempest" by Joyce Scarbrough

Romance of my Dreams II - Featuring "Safe Harbor" and "Pyrotechnics" by Joyce Scarbrough

Dreamspell Revenge - Featuring "Midsummer Shower" by Joyce Scarbrough

Other Books and Anthologies by Joyce Scarbrough:

TRUE BLUE FOREVER, a coming-of-age story set on the Alabama Gulf Coast that's played out against a landscape painted with the music, muscle cars and culture of the late 1970s—sans disco, of course.

DIFFERENT ROADS, a much edgier story about a foul-mouthed hellion who takes crap off no one and lives in fear of anyone finding out she's also a love-starved little girl terrified of the dark.

Joyce's short story "Hope Chest" is also featured in an anthology titled CHRISTMAS IS A SEASON: 2008.