
Joy Lynn Goddard and her husband Daniel Pike write adult fiction that blends mystery, romance, and suspense. Their first novel, Moonshadow, won a Book Excellence Award, a Reader Ready Award (Recommended Read), and a Canada Book Award. Their second, The Keepers, also won a Canada Book Award. Besides novels, they wrote Buyers, Liars, Sellers and Yellers, a collection of humorous short stories about the real estate industry.
Joy is well known for her young adult and junior fiction, with her books in schools and libraries across Canada; she also wrote Write Right, a step-by-step guide to writing a novel.
More recently, Joy and Dan began writing screenplays based on their novels. Their first is A Good Mother, from the Editor’s Choice Award-winning novel of the same name, published in 2024.
They live in Belleville, Ontario. Learn more about them by visiting www.joygoddard.com.