Joyce Scarbrough

I'm a 46-year-old Southern woman who hates it when I see myself or my peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies ala Daisy Duke, so all my heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. I've lived all my life in southern Alabama, I'm the mother of three gifted children, and I've been married for 25 years to the love of my life.

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Excerpt from DIFFERENT ROADS

WHOSE ASS DO WE HAVE TO KISS TO GET A SOFTBALL FIELD?
Jaycee Stevens smiled at the shocked expressions her sign generated from all the baseball fans as she stepped onto the field in her softball uniform. Good, and she hoped it embarrassed the hell out of the school board officials who were there to unveil […]


Excerpt from TRUE BLUE FOREVER

Jeana and Mickey generated heat from the beginning.
Take when they met. It was almost the second quarter of the 1978-79 school year, and the temperature still hovered near ninety. Even for southern Alabama, that kind of heat was unusual for so late in October. The box fans at both ends of the room in Mrs. […]