News flash: November 25, 2021
Just released: my dramatized family history of ancestors in Norway! (see bottom of page)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...
Where can I find her?
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Tour the landscapes of Norway and Cumbria as captured by painters of the past (and browse my own artwork) on Pinterest:
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Read flash fiction glimpses into history on my blog:
Safe and Scrumptious:
Tasty recipes free of wheat, corn, milk, and tree nuts
(second edition)
A 104-page cookbook with recipes free from
wheat, corn, milk, and tree nuts,
including these sections:
- Substitutions
- Grains
- Cookies and Cakes
- Pies, Crisps, and other fruit delights
- Desserts and Candy
- Dressings and Condiments
- Vegetables
- Eggs, Legumes, and Chili
- Soups and Stews
- Meaty Main Dishes
- Beverages
- Miscellaneous (including plant food)
The $5.00 book includes a few tips for avoiding corn products, which aren't always flagged on labels.
You can read a wider variety of 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
- 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
Fiddle and Fjell:
a family saga from Telemark, Norway
Behind the dry, dusty names in ancestral charts
dwell real people with hopes and dreams, fears and challenges.
The folk of Kviteseid -- a remote, mountainous parish of Telemark, Norway --
left a barebones legacy behind them.
We know the dates and places of major events,
but not the circumstances surrounding them.
We have no record of personalities and friendships, opinions and beliefs,
conflicts and compromises.
FIDDLE AND FJELL weaves imagined story strands
into the fabric of real lives lived long ago,
embroidered with colorful threads of Norse culture and history.
Written and illustrated by a long-lost daughter of Kviteseid,
separated by an ocean and four generations from the fjells of Telemark, Norway.