Joyce Holt -- author of historical fantasy

So she's an author. What else does she do?

line art and caricatures
book cover art
screeving: sidewalk chalk art
ventriloquism
Celtic harp, langeleik, sheepbone flute, recorder
spinning and tablet-weaving
sprang netting and naalbinding (ancient norse crafts)
needle-felting (see the fox below)
song and story booth* at medieval events...

Contact

Find me where my books are sold:

Tour the landscapes of Norway and Cumbria as captured by painters of the past (and browse my own artwork) on Pinterest:

For breaking news, anecdotes, new images, and chat, find me on Facebook:

Shoot me a note at:
authorjoyceholt[at]gmail[dot]com

You can read Holt's not-yet-published flash fiction on

(an online community of readers and writers)

Flashback:

flash fiction set in ages past

Celtic rebels
a girl of Zimbabwe baffled by Portuguese explorers
a footsore Norman squire
Chinese explorers stranded on Australia's northern coast
a Roman soldier gone AWOL and lost in a haunted forest
a cacao farmer paddling along the Caribbean coast
...and many more tales

Hatchlings:

flash fiction in many genres

A menagerie of flash fiction, hatched from ideas of many colors from here, there, and elsewhere: mostly fantasy but a sprinkling of sci-fi and contemporary.

chalk drawings rise to ominous life
a Sasquatch laments intrusion by little folk
a feline guardian prevents disaster
post-apocalypse lament about the cause of civilization's downfall
a housewife's wild adventures at the mall opening
a ghost finally wins free of the haunted mansion
...and many more tales

Family history works

authored or edited by Joyce Holt

Frederick William Hurst: accidental world traveler in the mid-1800's... sailing by tall ship from England to New Zealand to Australia to Hawaii to San Francisco; later by steam clipper from San Francisco back to New Zealand