Author Archive: joannaauthor
Island of the Dolls/ La Isla de Munecas
I grew up with many types of dolls, from what we called “doll babies” the kind you rock and feed and play Mommy with, to Cabbage Patch, to Barbie dolls. We won’t even get started on doll like toys, that were humanish but not really dolls, per se. (My Little Pony, Gloworms, etc). I was …
Cover Reveal 4 Aug 2023
Tomorrow is the day! A cover reveal for Paranormal North Carolina, my 2nd non-fiction working, also being published by Peaceful Musings Publishing, an imprint of L.D.B. Press.
World Paranormal Day- Aokigahara Forest, Japan
Aokigahara Forest, sometimes called the haunted forest or the suicide forest, is located in a shadow. The shadow of Mt. Fuji, to be more precise. As in any forest, you will also be in the shadows, cast by the conifer and broad leaf trees. Locals call it Jukai which translates into “sea of trees”. The …
Double Oaks Bed and Breakfast, Greensboro
Well, this is at least not as awkward as last time…I’ve only been absent from the blog 13 months instead of two years. A few announcements- a giant thank you to LDB Press, as they have picked up Paranormal North Carolina, and we all eagerly await it’s release date. (Ok, I eagerly await the release …
So…this is awkward
How do you explain a two-year absence on your blog? a) ignore it and just proceed like you’ve been updating it regularly b) remind everyone your primary job is “therapist” and we’ve been in a pandemic c) announce that at least during the pandemic you wrote a book d) all of the above Let’s go …
It’s been a while, but when lightning strikes…
I should have scrolled back to see when my last post was. I really should have. I am kind of scared to, because I am afraid that the year in “18” instead of “19” and that is just… well, there’s no excuse for that. Despite working 4 jobs, 3 jobs? (I’m not sure how to …
I’m officially old
I haven’t got the AARP card application in the mail YET, but I got the second closest indicator of oldness- a Facebook invite to my 20 year high school reunion in October. Now I can do math (a fact that’s debatable if you’ve been to board game night with me and watched me struggle to …
No, we can’t cancel Christmas this year.
I’ve been hearing this A LOT this year from colleagues, clients, random people in the street. This idea of canceling Christmas isn’t new. There’s a movie about it, and even when I googled “Cancel Christmas” to fact check that there was indeed a movie about it, my hits were all blog posts “Why We Canceled …
I survived Black Friday- as a retail clerk!
Many of you know that my “real” job is not an author. It is being a therapist. So you might wonder why I was working retail on Black Friday. Over the summer, I picked up a few hours here and there (PRN, as we say in the medical world) at a little, locally owned, used …
Joanna Nunez, Author 