By Love Betrayed is Joanna Wilson’s first novel but she is hardly new at putting words on paper. Unlike many writers, she did not come from literary-minded parents who encouraged her interest in writing, although her father was an avid reader. Being an only child she spent a lot of time alone. At a young age, her introverted nature gravitated toward reading and writing poetry for her eyes only. By her mid-teens, she’d had poetry published in several small literary magazines. But she saw poetry as a source for her intimate thoughts and feelings. She became enthralled with the form and structure of professional writing. She studied journalism at the New School in New York and Charles Morris Price School for Journalism and Advertising in Philadelphia, and at Bucks County Community College. She started out by writing short pieces and before too long wrote features for daily newspapers such as The Philadelphia Bulletin (now defunct) She moved naturally into writing full-length articles for magazines in Montgomery and Bucks Counties. She joined the work-a-day world in the field of corporate communications. During 20 plus years in Public Relations/Communications, the desire to write fiction grew. A dream of writing a novel of suspense “haunted” her. She took “course after course” to learn the nuts and bolts of fiction writing. She’s had three short stories published. She has taught both fiction and non-fiction in adult education programs in high schools and community college. She lives in Bucks County with her husband and four pets who adamantly believe they are human. She is currently beginning work on her second book.