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Bios: Joan F. Smith
Short Author Bio
Joan F. Smith is an author and dance teacher who lives with her husband and two kids in Massachusetts. She enjoys travel, sweating, abandoning hobbies, and heated discussions about pilot episodes of television.Â
Long Author Bio
Joan F. Smith is an author, a dance instructor, and a former associate dean of creative writing. She lives and writes in Massachusetts, where she was the 2021 Writer-in-Residence at the Milton Public Library. Joan received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Her young adult books are The Other Side of Infinity and The Half-Orphan’s Handbook. When she’s not writing, she’s either wrangling her kids, embarking on a new hobby she will quickly abandon, or co-hosting The Darling Killers Podcast. Your Soulmail is Attached is her debut adult novel. You can find more about her at joanfsmithbooks.com, and follow her on Instagram, TikTok, and Threads @jf_smit.
ADULT FICTION
Your Soulmail is Attached
What if everyone in the world found out who their soulmates are at the same time?
Olivia Adler’s life is picture-perfect: a behind-the-scenes job she loves in a bustling Manhattan newsroom, an engagement to golden-boy Wells, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to create the documentary she’s always wanted to make.
Then one sleepless night, everything unravels.
One message on Wells’s phone shatters her engagement.
A second message—an anonymous global email quickly dubbed Soulmail—shakes the world.
Delivered to every individual on earth, Soulmail reveals the name and birthdate of their soulmates. Suddenly, love as the world knows it is rewritten overnight, and Olivia accidentally becomes the face of the phenomenon when she reports on the story live and goes viral.
With millions watching her every move, Olivia resolutely refuses to open her Soulmail. She’s not ready for fate to make her choices—especially not now. But when she crosses paths with her childhood best friend—the boy she loved and lost—everything she thought she knew about destiny, timing, and love comes into question.
Is true love written in the stars…or something we choose for ourselves?
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YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
The Other Side of Infinity
THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY
by Joan F. Smith
Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan
They Both Die at the End meets The Butterfly Effect in this YA novel by Joan F. Smith, where a teen uses her gift of foreknowledge to help a lifeguard save a drowning man―only to discover that her actions have suddenly put his life at risk.
It was supposed to be an ordinary day at the pool, but when lifeguard Nick hesitates during a save, seventeen-year-old December uses her gift of foreknowledge to rescue the drowning man instead. The action comes at a cost. Not only will Nick and December fall in love, but also, she envisions that his own life is now at risk. The other problem? They’re basically strangers.
December embarks on a mission to save Nick’s life, and to experience what it feels like to fall in love―something she’d formerly known she’d never do. Nick, battling the shame of screwing up the rescue when he’s heralded as a community hero, resolves to make up for his inaction by doing December a major solid and searching for her mother, who went missing nine years ago.
As they grow closer, December’s gift starts playing tricks, and Nick’s family gets closer to an ugly truth about him. They both must learn what it really means to be a hero before time runs out.
Permission is granted to use this image for publicity purposes. Credit should be given to: art by Beatriz Ramo and design by Samira Iravani.
The Half-Orphan's Handbook
THE HALF-ORPHAN'S HANDBOOK
by Joan F. Smith
Imprint/Macmillan
For fans of John Green and Emily X.R. Pan, The Half-Orphan’s Handbook is a coming-of-age story and an empathetic, authentic exploration of grief with a sharp sense of humor and a big heart.
It’s been three months since Lila lost her father to suicide. Since then, she’s learned to protect herself from pain by following two unbreakable rules:
1. The only people who can truly hurt you are the ones you love. Therefore, love no one.
2. Stay away from liars. Liars are the worst.
But when Lila’s mother sends her to a summer-long grief camp, it’s suddenly harder for Lila to follow these rules. Potential new friends and an unexpected crush threaten to drag her back into life for the first time since her dad’s death.
On top of everything, there’s more about what happened that Lila doesn’t know, and facing the truth about her family will be the hardest part of learning how a broken heart can love again.
Permission is granted to use this image for publicity purposes. Credit must be given to Dion MBD for illustration and Carolyn Bull for art direction.
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