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INVARIAL 043) THE setting for
“a Harlequin romance is fantasy

land::, a: Manhattan ' penthouse,
‘the moors of Scotland, a Planta-
tion in the Deep South.

: By Laytie Christensen
Community Reporter

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It’s ‘hot often that. it hits close. to :

‘home,, and that's: ‘part, of the appea'

‘For, the setting of her just-released - :
Harlequin Jntrigue novel, The Night ©.
‘Before Christmas, Joyce’ David has

hosen familiar switoundings.
The former Parkgate Village resi-
dent -has set: this: murder-mystéry in

Deep Cove, or Serenity Cove'as she :

‘Panorama Park.’

Je The ‘North Shore News nuts

“crime: reporter harasses: our, tawny-
th aired heroine,, Laure] Bishop. And

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hanged not to ‘protect, the. innocent,
bu iT could get everthing on the

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JOYCE “SULLIVAN'S | The
Night Before Christmas/is on

‘store shelves now.

is.a feauiced in ‘every Harlequin

Intrigue and j appears just’ inside the -

front cover.) 3 i, '
A“native. of California, David

moved’ from the North: Shore to

Aylmer, Quebec, two years ‘ago’ so
“that her children could be closer to
° their paternal grandparents.

Her’ rom. de“ plume is Joyce

Sullivan, her maiden name.:She is a
sformer: ‘private -- investigator awho
- : “urned to. freelance! writing after the.
ork on her. fift farniscrip At map Ay

birth of her first child:

'Neme oye David: aka Joyce ullivan

1961)

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: Police say he left witha small amount of cigarettes,
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> Ht was four’ years
Harlequin’ picked up The Night
Before Christicas, and not before the
giant publishing house had requested

Several revisions.

. When David finally. got “the
phone call that changed my life" she
was “on — the
kitchen floor: cry-
ing. my bead. off.”
Aside from her “10
minutes of _hyste-
ria,” she is method-
-ical and disciplined
about writing. ;
Discipline is the
. “key to getting pub-
- lished + ° _ insists
David, who says
“she’s never had a bad day “at work."

‘She writes from her home office, six
“hours a day, five days a week.

~ Atypical day? “Get my kids on

. the school bus, de the dishes, work at .

“my computer until 11, do fitness for
Jan -hour. At hoon I'm back at work

“until 4 p.m.”

She credits her law yer mother for
her love of. reading and her passion
for solving mysteries. :

' A-degree in criminal justice has
helped her to’ write realistically-and '
accurately about ‘the murders. and _
intrigues she pottrays. u

How have -Harlequin’s heroines ,
adapted with the times? “They're just
fine on their own; they're not sitting -
around ‘waiting for a man.to make

‘ theny happy."

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