Frontlist | Tale of twin boys is latest release by prolific Chiseldon author

The mum of two is spending lockdown working on a children’s book about identical twin boys who are separated at birth. It starts when the boys are 13 – then one of them spots a picture of a runaway in the paper and sees a mirror image. Entitled The Boy With My Face, it should be completed in about three months' time. “I’m never short of ideas, Joy said. I have so many ideas so I have so many half-written books they just come and pop into my head. I get very obsessed with whatever I’m doing. Joy's daughters Lindsey and Bryony are both very supportive of her work and she donates some of her royalties to the Great Western Hospital Brighter Futures charity. She added: “I’m so thankful that I have this to absorb my time so lockdown hasn’t been such a burden. I’ve got friends who don’t have many hobbies apart from socialising so it’s been hard for them. She sells all of her books through Amazon, having turned down the opportunity to use a publishing company. “I’m quite impatient really,” she added. “I know quite a lot about the publishing but very few publishers actually take you on. 99.9 per cent of writers aren’t accepted. “It takes a good two years to get a book on the shelf. I have a friend who signed a contract, he was tied to them so I didn’t really want to go down that route.