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Joan Gilbert’s Background
Novel Sales: Youth mystery, Summerhill Summer, to Bethany Press in St. Louis and a gothic, House of Whispers, to Paperback Library, which became Warner’s.
Nonfiction Book Sales: The Trail of Tears Across Missouri, to University of Missouri Press (Columbia), 1996, and Missouri Ghosts, More Missouri Ghosts and Missouri Horses, Gift to a Nation, for Mogho Books, in 2000, 2002, and 2003, respectively. Latest book: Missouri Horses, Gift to a Nation, December 1, 2003.
Short Nonfiction Sales: Approximately 700 pieces, including book reviews, to markets including Good Housekeeping, Seventeen, Young Miss, Western Horseman, Management Quarterly, Ebony, Writers’ Digest and Writers’ Yearbook, Veterinary Topics, Real West, Country Journal, New Holland News, Spur - on masthead of Saddle & Bridle (monthly columnist for 15 years) and Bluegrass Horseman - and many state markets including Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Ozarks Mountaineer, Rural Missouri, Missouri Magazine, Small Farm Today. Work appears in eleven anthologies.
Short Fiction Sales: Twenty short stories sold mainly to horse magazines and Missouri Magazine.
Awards: Total of 25 first place prizes from local, regional, state and national writers’ competitions, these for historical articles, sports and agriculture articles and short stories. In 1997, first for Trail of Tears Across Missouri came from both Missouri Press Women and Missouri Writers Guild and a second from the National Federation of Press Women. Missouri Ghosts and More Missouri Ghosts won the same prizes. Most interesting prize, perhaps, was a first from The Younger Gang for an article about the James family; most cherished recognition came in 1998, with first place in Missouri Writers’ week Award for Poetry.
Memberships: National Federation of Press Women, Missouri Press Women, Missouri Writer’s Guild, The Missouri Historical Society, The Missouri Folklore Society.
Work Experience: Three years editing women’s section of the Columbia Daily Tribune, 13 years public relations and monthly newsletter for a rural electric cooperative, six years a quarterly newsletter for a five-facility veterinary group, two years a newsletter for the College of Veterinary Medicine at UM Columbia. Was assistant editor for The Extended Circle, a 436 page animal - appreciation anthology published first in England, then in the U.S., now in its fourth edition.
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