Jo-ann Mapson
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Creative Writing and Literary Arts
M.F.A.,Vermont College of Norwich University
B.A., California State University, Long Beach
jamapson@aol.com
Jo—Ann Mapson is the author of ten books of fiction, including the bestselling novels Hank & Chloe, The Wilder Sisters, and Bad Girl Creek. Blue Rodeo, tier second novel, was made into a CBS TV movie.
Several of her books have been BookSense picks, and most are available on audio, tape, large print, and Braille. Considered “mainstream” in terms of genre, subjects she writes about include: women’s lives, friendships, raising children, working, and loving good men. Her latest novel is The Owl & Moon Cafe. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at UAA. and raised in Southern California, she now lives in Anchorage with her husband, artist Stewart Allison, and their four dogs.
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Along Came Mary
After finally wising up to her drunken rodeo crooner lover, Mary Madigan saddles up her twin border collies and takes her act on the road, leaving miles of heartache and highway behind. When she meets Rick, a charming and persistent journalist haunted by his own ghosts, she suddenly has a travel companion and a new lover (with an all-too-familiar set of tricks).
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Bad Girl Creek
Phoebe DeThomas has lived life as spectator, confined to a wheelchair, in awe of her beloved Aunt Sadie, and overshadowed by her financial wizard brother, James. But when Sadie dies, leaving Phoebe a flower farm, the world opens up to her in ways she could never have imagined. Taking in three roommates to help get the farm running, she finds herself, for the first time in her life, part of a close circle of women friends. Each displaced from her home, these four women form an invaluable bond as they learn how friendship and purpose can transform even the most compromised of women. |
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Blue Rodeo
Those who do not remember family history are condemned to repeat it...Haunted by a failed marriage, a resentful son left deaf by a bout of meningitis, and the slow death of her artistic aspirations, Margaret Yearwood takes refuge in Blue Dog, New Mexico. There, in the shadow of Shiprock Mountain, and in the unlikely arms of Owen Garrett, she finds the courage to love again, and to be loved. And she comes to realize that even the most primal wounds scar over and that there's nothing so renewable or so healing as passion. This is a bittersweet story of ordinary people who must learn to heal family bonds before they are permanently severed.
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Goodbye Earl
Five challenging years have passed in the lives of the ladies of Bad Girl Creek. Beryl, Nance, Ness, and Phoebe have experienced their share of hardship and heartache but also much love and happiness. |
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Hank & Chloe
Chloe Morgan is a thirty-three-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling canyonlands of Southern California. Calloused and wary, Chloe allows herself to love with total abandon and complete faith only her horse and her dog. That is, until a quirkin the weather and a sunrise funeral service cause her to cross the path of Henry Oliver, a sedate professor of folklore at the local college, who, like Chloe, has his reasons for holding back. |
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Loving Chloe
When thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan appears on Hank Oliver's doorstep in Cameron, Arizona, she arrives with more than her old white German shepherd, Hannah, and a rambunctious young horse in tow. Chloe is pregnant with Hank's child, and she's as tough-talking and vulnerable, skittish and tender as when last we saw her in Jo-Ann Mapson's acclaimed first novel, Hank & Chloe. |
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The Owl & Moon Cafe
After losing her teaching position at the local university, Mariah Moon will do anything to keep her gifted twelve-year-old daughter, Lindsay, in a prestigious private school -- which means moving in with her mother and grandmother in an apartment above The Owl & Moon Café. |
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Solomon's Oak
Glory Solomon, a young widow, holds tight to her memories while she struggles to hold on to her Central California farm. She makes ends meet by hosting weddings in the chapel her husband had built under their two-hundred-year-old white oak tree, known locally as Solomon's Oak. |
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Shadow Ranch
The death of Lainie's four-year-old son had affected her marriage as well as the lives of her grandfather and her brother. This novel tells of love, children and the way tragedy affects several generations of a family.
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The Wilder Sisters
Mapson introduces us to Lily and Rose Wilder, the daughters of a rancher and his beautiful activist spouse. The sisters return to the home ranch as they face their own midlife crises. Lily is tired of her high-powered, travel-intense California sales job and her own taste in men. Rose, recently widowed, nurses a tentative affection for the veterinarian she works for and wonders why her adolescent children turned out so badly. |
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