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Also by Tina Ann Forkner:

The Real Thing, April 2016
e-Book
Waking Up Joy, October 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Rose House, May 2009
Paperback / e-Book
Ruby Among Us, June 2008
Paperback / e-Book

Waking Up Joy
Tina Ann Forkner

Tule Publishing
October 2014
On Sale: October 9, 2014
Featuring: Joy
336 pages
ISBN: 1940296722
EAN: 9781940296722
Kindle: B00NW0NJ4E
Paperback / e-Book
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Romance Contemporary | Romance

Behind every lost dream lies a second chance…

When adored town spinster Joy Talley ends up in a coma after a peculiar accident, she is surprised and incensed to hear what is being said in her hospital room, including plans for her funeral. When she finally wakes, her well-meaning, but bossy, brothers and sisters dismiss her claims, thinking her accident has knocked her off her rocker, but Joy has never felt better, and is determined to set the past right.

Now Joy must face her darkest secret and risk reopening wounds caused by an old flame who rejected her more than twenty years ago. But taking risks brings change, as well as a new, younger man into Joy’s life, making her feel like a teenager again. Suddenly Joy’s once humdrum life is anything but boring and routine and the future beckons, exhilarating and bright.

Comments

28 comments posted.

Re: Waking Up Joy

I was permitted to read my mom's True Romance magazines, which were risqué for the fifties. I was fifteen at the time and felt so grown up reading these short stories, but found a passion in reading adult romance. Romance novels are more steamy in content these days and in description a truer type of reading evolves. I will never give up my enjoyment of reading romance novels. Waking Up Joy sounds really good.
(Rosemary Simm 12:53pm December 5, 2014)

My mom read those Danielle Steele's. To this day, when I
see them it makes me think of her. I love romance novels
of all kinds. I must admit to having a full on book
addiction!
Tina - have you considered trying to find that friend via
social media? I bet you could track her down. Maybe she
is on Goodreads... or even has a book out too. Wouldn't
it be great to trade books with her - your own?!?
(Vanessa Primer 1:22am December 5, 2014)

Absolutely addicted. I read at night to go to sleep, but
get so wrapped up in the stories that I ending staying
awake to finish the book.
(Jenny Ford 2:03am December 5, 2014)

I'm not addicted to just Romance novels. I'm addicted to
reading, period!! Depending on the mood that I'm in at the
time, pretty much determines what type of book I'll choose
to read next, since my reading habits run the gamut from
mysteries, to humor, to Romance!!! I'm sure that your
books are very good, since you started to read Romances at a
young age, and all Women have that "Romance gene" instilled
in them anyway. It will make for good reading this upcoming
Winter, when I am holed-up in my apartment, once the snow
flies!! I love the cover to your book as well.
Congratulations on your latest book!!
(Peggy Roberson 9:17am December 5, 2014)

Thanks, everyone. And Peggy, I think I read more books in Winter than
Summer!
(Tina Forkner 11:10pm December 5, 2014)

I love the comment about how amazing it would be to trade
books with your former private librarian! My aunt is the
room full of romance & mystery paperback lover in the family
but unlike your mom she was always pushing them onto all of
us -- the tamer stuff but looking back we were probably all
to young to be reading them!
(Tava H 4:12am December 6, 2014)

I used to read all of my much older sisters romance novels.
I loved them then & now.
(Mary Preston 5:00am December 6, 2014)

I loved that comment too, Tava. I looked on social media a
few times Vanessa. I don't think she's on social media yet,
but I'll keep looking. :)
(Tina Forkner 9:12am December 6, 2014)

I love romance books...have read them since i was about 12
and am now 67.
(Mary Hay 9:21am December 6, 2014)

My mom only read her Sunday school lesson and the newspaper. No books to sneak from her and my friends read like one book a year. No romance. I always loved books and read mostly the classics until I was about 40. I won a romance novel and have been addicted since. I also like books with cats and recipes. I still enjoy the classics but I get a kick and have more fun with romance and cozy mysteries.
(Sandra Dickey 11:31am December 6, 2014)

I must be addicted! I am always reading them! Always
looking for the next one to read.
(Ashley C 12:21pm December 6, 2014)

I love your story/testimony Tina. I remember sneaking one of my mom's Romance Novel when I was 12 years old called, "Gentle Savage" by: Kathleen Drymon. As a matter of fact I still have that book. Then I started reading my Auntie's stockpile of V.C. Andrews books. However, like one of the commenters stated I'm not just addicted to reading Romance Novels I'm addicted to reading period. Best to all who have entered
(Holly Loch 1:21pm December 6, 2014)

I am an avid reader from when I was very young. Reading is my
entertainment, my escape and my enjoyment,
(Sharon Berger 8:58pm December 6, 2014)

I do not know if I am addicted, but I am always reading around three books at any one time. I usually prefer regency (historical), but I also like contemporary or mystery.
(Susan Jang 11:23pm December 6, 2014)

I am addicted but my mother had this magazine which told of
real life romance stories. In retrospect, I am sure they are
not real life.
(Debra Guyette 11:11am December 7, 2014)

Yes I am addicted to romance novels but honestly I am addicted
to books in general!
(Denise Austin 12:07pm December 7, 2014)

I am addicted to reading novels, romance and anything that includes romance. I'm a little groggy today because I didn't stop reading until 4 a.m. At that time, I had to force myself to put the book aside and I plan on finishing it today.
(Anna Speed 1:06pm December 7, 2014)

I am so addicted to romance novels that I have so many romance books to read and not enough time to do it.
(Kai Wong 5:06pm December 7, 2014)

I love reading all your comments! It sounds like you all are book addicts in
general. Debra: My mom told me my grandma liked to read "true" romance
magazines when she was young.
(Tina Forkner 5:24pm December 7, 2014)

I used to borrow my mom's romance novels, then she started
buying me the teen versions or she let me read the ones she
had from the 60s--mostly about nurses
(Denise Holcomb 7:57pm December 7, 2014)

I started reading romance in seventh grade. HARLEQUINS. Then
Danielle Steele. I still love romance novels. Think I always
will.
(Suzy F. 8:21am December 8, 2014)

My mother read Zane Grey, Louis L'Amore and any Western she
could. I like the Gothics and Historical. I read most any book
except the eroticia because I just don't like them.
(Leona Olson 7:36pm December 8, 2014)

Since both of my Parents are now gone, I'll never know the
answer, but as a teenager, I had an urge to do volunteer
work, and ran my ideas past my Parents. All I ever heard
from them was no, and they always shot down my ideas, making
me hurt, and full of outrage!! It has taken me decades, but
now that I'm on my own and married, I am using my knitting
needles to make a change for people in need. I made a batch
of scarves for the WWII veterans, and plan on making some
items for a charity in my area, to donate in my Mother's
name, to keep her name alive. She passed away from
Alzheimer's disease 12 years ago. I also volunteer to teach
a knitting and crochet class. Your book sounds good, and
reached out to me the first time I saw it. I already put it
on my TBR list, and hope to start reading it sometime this
Spring. If not, it will be early Summer the latest.
Reading is a great escape, but a bit hard to do at the
moment, with my knitting class in the middle of a bit
project. Congratulations on your latest book, which I know
will do well!!
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(Craig Stephens 5:14pm May 1, 2015)

Peggy, your story is an inspiration to me. Wow. Thank you
for sharing!
(Tina Forkner 7:01pm May 1, 2015)

My mother was also a Girl Scout Leader and my father helped
in the church. I saw in the church bulletin about a group
that make prayer shawls and so I am now doing that and it
makes me feed good to help. that make prayer shawls and so I
am now doing that and it makes me feed good to help. I have
always volunteered as well as my husband. When I was in
nursing school about 60 years ago, we were told never to
discuss in front of a patient even if they were unconscious
because they can hear. Sounds like a caring book. Thanks.
(Leona Olson 9:02am May 2, 2015)

Leona, did you step out of Spavinaw Junction, the small
town in my book? :-) Sounds like you and my mom would get
along. And I'm glad to hear about your nursing school
experience. It's good to know that I didn't miss the mark.
Have a happy weekend!
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