Joyce Zeller

Joyce Zeller is retired from her retail business of 30 years where she worked as a professional perfumer and aromatherapist. Her knowledge of plants and essential oils inspired her science fiction novel, "Accidental Alien," about a clone, Daniel, who is a plant in a human shell, left behind eons ago on earth as a seed pod and now sprouted to confront man and society. He and his imbedded Artificial Intelligence try to make sense out of man's crazy beliefs, elude a female assassin sent here to kill him, depose a local drug lord, and avoid two homicide detectives hot on their trail. Zeller's unorthodox sense of humor make this book a fun read. She's been a history junkie all her life, probably due to being born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, founded as "Hickorytown" in 1636. Growing up surrounded by homes of Revolutionary War heroes, and, as a child, playing in a cemetery amid graves of Civil War soldiers, made it inevitable that she would have a reverence for history. After moving to Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 1979, she wrote, "The Hidden History of Eureka Springs." Much has been written about the town, but little about the growth of a unique culture that is a fascination for the social anthropologist, which Zeller has always wanted to be. She brings to the book her political insight as a councilwoman for what is surely the most cantankerous, argumentative, contrariest town in the U.S. She delves into the motivations of the early settlers, all of whom braved the horrendous hardships of a trek in the mountains to get here, as a last resort to find relief from the pain and sickness that ruled their lives. Eureka's reason for being was a small spring--a puddle, really--that the Indians claimed would heal "pain in the bones."

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