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Hollywood author publishes novels that hit close to home
Hollywood Gazette, January 2006 by Lisa Bernstein
Joyce Marie Taylor’s art does imitate her life, but the names have been changed to protect the innocent....and the not-so-innocent. A local author and longtime Hollywood resident has already two published novels under her belt and is currently working on Number 3 and 4.
Born in New Jersey, Ms. Taylor moved to South Florida at the age of three and settled in Hollywood for good in 1970. Always a lover of the written words, she didn’t discover her talent for writing until later in life when a close friend challenged her to compose a poem. With her interest in writing sparked, Joyce enrolled in Creative Writing Courses at Hollywood Hills High School at night while working a ‘real’ job as an advertising liaison representing 47 major newspapers nationwide.
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