Biography

“Joan is an excellent speaker, able to communicate her passion…She is knowledgeable and her energy is contagious. I highly recommend her to all, and her message is worth hearing and repeating again and again.”

Laurie H. Gates, President

West of the Pecos Cattlewomen

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A native of Bristol, Pennsylvania, Joan R. Neubauer began writing as a child and at the age of nine, saw her first articles published in her local newspaper, The Bristol Courier. With that first success, the writing bug took hold and Joan has been writing ever since.

Joan attended St. Ann School in Bristol, Pennsylvania; graduated from Bristol High School; and then West Chester University in Pennsylvania with a B.S. in education. She taught Spanish and ESL for a number of years before deciding to tackle freelancing as a career.

In 1984 she began writing seriously for publication but had a lot to learn about the industry. In 1987 she began selling her work regularly. Eventually she expanded from freelancing into copywriting, ghostwriting, editing, and now into publishing.

Joan and her husband Steve own and operate WordWright.biz, Inc., a publishing house in Alpine, Texas. “We’re an author incubator,” Joan says. “We want to nurture authors and help them develop into the fine writers and promoters they can become.”

Joan takes her own advice and is making a name for herself, her publishing house, and her authors. WordWright has acquired a reputation as one of the finest publishing houses to showcase new authors. Since 2000, WordWright has published about 200 titles for new authors.

Joan has twelve published books to her credit, among them The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journaling, Dear Diary, From Memories to Manuscirpt, A Serpent's Tooth, and Shadow Dancing. She continues to write books, articles, and columns. In addition, she serves as the Public Liasion Officer for the Davis Mountains Trans-Pecos Heritage Association, and writes a monthly political column that appears in about 50 newspapers across Texas. She travels extensively to promote her books, her publishing house, and the preservation of Constitutional Rights. She is available to speak on a variety of subjects for writers groups, corporate functions, civic, service, political organizations, and schools. Joan invites everyone to join her at her blogs, joansbooks.wordpress.com and joanspeaks.wordpress.com.