
She has one daughter who is a CPA and another who works for a chocolate company and provides yummy insider information on the chocolate business.
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She lives in Oklahoma but summers in Michigan where the Chocoholic Mystery series is set. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of OK and also studied in the O.U.

She spent 25 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, feature writer, editor, and columnist, most recently at the Lawton Constitution. Sandstrom, have three grandchildren, whom they love introducing to the lore of their two homes – Oklahoma and Michigan. She took an early retirement to write fiction full-time. She spent more than twenty-five years in the newspaper business, working as a reporter, editor, and columnist at The Lawton Constitution in Lawton, Oklahoma. If your home were damaged or destroyed, you would want your claim settled by an insurance agency that understands this simple fact. Hart and Jack Bickham in the OU Creative Writing Program. JoAnna/Eve earned a degree in journalism at the University of Oklahoma and also studied with Carolyn G. So that’s how JoAnna/Eve became a regional author in two widely separated regions. The “Chocoholic Mysteries” were on their way.Įve’s editor requested that she use a pen name for the new series, and Eve picked the middle names of her three children, Betsy Jo, Ruth Anna, and John Carl. Most small towns couldn’t support a business like this, but the resorts of West Michigan – with their wealthy “summer people” – can. So when her editor asked her to come up with a new, “cozy” mystery series, Eve set it in a West Michigan resort town, scrambling up Saugatuck, Douglas, South Haven, Holland, Manistee, Ludington and Muskegon with her own ideas of what a resort ought to be to create Warner Pier.Īs further background, she plunked her heroine into a business which produces and sells luscious, luxurious, European-style bonbons, truffles and molded chocolates. The area features gorgeous beaches, lush orchards, thick woods, and beautiful Victorian houses.
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rodents like rats and mice, plus stinging pests like hornets and wasps. Every summer for more than forty years she, her husband and various combinations of children and grandchildren have trekked to the community of Pier Cove for vacations that lasted from two weeks to three months. Orkin pest control services helps protect Grand Rapids, MI area homes against. Eve even knows the second verse of “Boomer Sooner.”Įve wrote two mystery series: the “Down Home” books, set on a ranch in Southwest Oklahoma, and the Nell Matthews mysteries, semi-hard-boiled books laid in a mid-size city on the Southern Plains.īut Eve married a great guy whose family owned a cottage on the west coast of Lake Michigan, not far from the Michigan towns of Fennville, Saugatuck, and Douglas. Eve and seven other members of her immediate family are graduates of the University of Oklahoma. One grandmother was born in the Choctaw Nation, and Eve is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Both her grandfathers and her father were in the oil business, once the backbone of Oklahoma’s economy. Sandstrom is an Oklahoman to the teeth: she was born there, as were five previous generations of her mother’s family. The author writes about the shores of Lake Michigan and has been reviewed in Michigan newspapers as a “regional writer.” She has also written about Southwest Oklahoma and once won an award for the best book of the year with an Oklahoma setting.Įve K. The company performed in a variety of venues, including the Central Campus auditorium at Muskegon High School and the Michigan theater which would become the Frauenthal.JOANNA CARL is the pseudonym for the multi-published mystery writer Eve K.

Love Rides the Rails (or Will the Mail Train Run Tonight)Ĭivic Opera Association was founded in 1961, when it opened with a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” COA concentrated on musicals, most of them expansive.

The Registered Agent on file for this company is John C Decker and is located at 3088 Sheffield St, Muskegon, MI 49441. The company's filing status is listed as Active and its File Number is 16113D. You Know I Can’t Hear You When The Water’s Running is a Michigan Domestic Profit Corporation filed On December 4, 2003. Starting with a production of playwright Noel Coward’s ghostly comedy of manners, “Blithe Spirit,” Port City Playhouse operated until 1983. Port City Playhouse got rolling in 1961 in an old church building (the former Greater Muskegon Civic Theatre) on Sanford Street, across the street from where the Muskegon High School Big Reds play football at Hackley Stadium.
