Joy preble biography

Joy Preble is the author of a medium-long list of young adult novels including the Dreaming Anastasia series, the Sweet Dead Life series, Finding Paris.
Joy Preble grew up in Chicago where— possibly because she was raised by an accountant and a bookkeeper—she dreamed of being a back up singer, but instead earned an English degree from Northwestern.
Joy Preble grew up in Chicago, Illinois, listening to her Russian grandmother tell tales of the old country, most of which ended with the equivalent of “We.

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Cynsations

Joy Preble is the first-time author of Dreaming Anastasia (Sourcebooks, 2009). From the promotional copy:

Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn’t.

Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse than being dead.

In modern-day Chicago, Anne doesn’t know much about Russian history. She is more concerned about getting into a good college—until the dreams start. She is somewhere else. She is someone else. And she is sharing a small room with a very old woman.

The vivid dreams startle her, but not until a handsome stranger offers to explain them does she realize her life is going to change forever. She is the only one who can save Anastasia. But, Anastasia is having her own dreams…

What were you like as a young reader, and how did that influence the book that you’re debuting this year?

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Joy Preble

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Joy Preble grew up in Chicago, Illinois, listening to her Russian grandmother tell tales of the old country, most of which ended with the equivalent of “We were all very poor and it sucked so I came here.” Joy began her writing career at age seven with a Thanksgiving play that consisted mostly of the Pilgrim women washing clothes after a long journey. Since then, she has learned to give her female characters, and herself, better things to do. (Not that clean laundry is a bad thing. In fact, she likes it very much. She just prefers someone else to do it.) She is married and has one son and lives in The Woodlands, Texas, where-when she’s not teaching high school English (and sometimes when she is)-she continues to write.

Series

Books:

It Wasn't Always Like This, May 2016
Paperback / e-Book
The A-Word, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Sweet Dead Life, May 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Dreaming Anastasia
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Books by Joy Preble
Dreaming Anastasia (Dreaming Anastasia, #1)
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3.47 avg rating — 3,295 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
Finding Paris
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3.64 avg rating — 1,340 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions
Haunted (Dreaming Anastasia, #2)
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3.79 avg rating — 1,013 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
The Sweet Dead Life (Sweet Dead Life, #1)
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3.40 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions
It Wasn't Always Like This
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3.35 avg rating — 532 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions
Anastasia Forever (Dreaming Anastasia, #3)
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3.76 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
The A-Word (Sweet Dead Life, #2)
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3.67 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6: Femme Fatales
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4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
Dragons and Witches (Fairy Tale Villains Reimagined, #3)
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