Joy V. Smith

Biography

Joy V. Smith has been writing stories since she was a kid and made her own little books. Her stories and articles have been published in print magazines, webzines, and anthologies; and her SF has been published in two audiobooks, including Sugar Time. Her books include Strike Three, Sugar Time, Taboo Tech, Detour Trail, Building a Cool House for Hot Times without Scorching the Pocketbook, and a collection of her published short stories: The Doorway and Other Stories. Her ebooks include Hidebound, Velvet of Swords, Cold New Planet, Pretty Pink Planet, Hot Yellow Planet, and Remodeling: Buying and Updating a Foreclosure. She lives in Florida with Samwise Gamgee, a Chihuahua cross, and Pemberley, a tortoiseshell cat.

Where to find Joy V. Smith online

Books

Crystal Quest
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 4,970. Language: English. Published: September 29, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
Crystal Quest (Seedlings sequel) includes another mad mage, plus hostile plants (those vines are nasty) and a search for missing crystals. Juul and her companions, including Pink Fingers and desert claws, head into danger--this time seeking it out.
Seedlings
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 6,050. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Sentient plants and their human companions and dangers surrounding them. .
Well Met by Water
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 57,730. Language: English. Published: June 29, 2023 by Joy V. Smith. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Cathay saved Rand's life after he'd been chained in the water and cut to attract the sharks by fellow gangsters. However, Cathay and her dolphin companions freed him. Cathay and her family are not fantasy mermaids; and only the females in her family are mermaids. Cathay and her siblings are the result of her mother rescuing a seaman.
Velvet of Swords
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 76,870. Language: English. Published: May 30, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Velvet of Swords (Swords is the name of her family keep) is a science fiction adventure set in the far future on a planet colonized by Terrans. Well, there were complications because of the first settlers (humanoid), who amused themselves with genetic engineering, among other things.
Detour Trail
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 51,730. Language: English. Published: September 22, 2013 by Melange Books, LLC. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Westward bound on the Oregon Trail, Lorena Emerson is alone after her uncle is killed by a thief trying to steal his money belt. Ignoring the wagon master's advice to go home, she rounds up others needing help, and they join a later wagon train and are soon slogging through dust and mud and steep mountain passes. It's a long way to Oregon, and because another woman needs her help, Lorrie again goe
Hot Yellow Planet
Series: Lori and Chiing, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,900. Language: English. Published: October 4, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
(3.67 from 3 reviews)
Sequel to Pretty Pink Planet. Lori and Chiing continue their adventures, meeting up with Chameleons, Ghosters, Splurts, and other aliens and humans.
Pretty Pink Planet
Series: Lori and Chiing, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 3,250. Language: English. Published: October 3, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
(4.33 from 3 reviews)
Lori, an agent of SOESFOL (Search Out and Establish Sentient Forms of Life) visits Prism, a popular tourist destination, to track down planet pirates and rescue aliens, if she can find and talk to them.
Hidebound
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 22,490. Language: English. Published: August 17, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Not long after Anfissa and Ferenc meet, they’re trapped on a planet where even the grass is deadly. Contest winner twice.
Remodeling: Buying and Updating a Foreclosure
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 8,450. Language: English. Published: July 6, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Home & Garden » Home remodeling
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
How one woman coped with selling a house--at last, looking for a new house, buying a new house that was a foreclosure and needed lots of work, and then remodeling it since it didn't even have a kitchen sink!