by Joan Opyr
“You, me, Belvedere, and Beauregarde?”
“That sounds good,” she said. “For now, anyway.”
“And if we do that other thing?”
“You’re breaking the news to Edna.”
About the author
Joan Opyr is a Southern expatriate living in exile in
Moscow, Idaho. By day, she’s a pre-nursing student at
Lewis-Clark State College; by night, she’s a CNA on an
Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Unit. When does she write,
you might ask? Typically when she’s procrastinating on a
school assignment or doesn’t want to study for a test. And in
the summer—she always writes in the summer.
Joan is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a
BA and MA in English and has been, for the past 18 years,
ABD for her PhD at Te Ohio State University. Her area of
study is Old English with a sideline in feminist theory and
Foucauldian analysis. Will she ever finish her dissertation?
Never say never. It could happen. But it probably won’t, as
every time she sits down to write about Beowulf, she gets an
idea for another novel.
Joan has a wife, two kids, two dogs, and a guinea pig named Tim.
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Copyright © 2011 by Joan Opyr
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Bywater Books First Edition: June 2011
Cover designer: Bonnie Liss (Phoenix Graphics)
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Ebook ISBN: 978-1-61294-018-2
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-932859-71-3
This novel is a work of fiction. Although parts of the plot were inspired by actual events, all characters and events described by the author are fictitious. No resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, is intended.
eISBN : 978-1-612-94018-2