

In addition, she had an American agent and publisher, although she has now switched to a Canadian publisher.New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Joy Fielding tells the story of an ambitious journalist whose foray into the mind of a killer puts her own family in jeopardy.Ĭharley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. For example, the novel Kiss Mommy Goodbye was more popular in the States, and See Jane Run in Germany. That's what they are." Audience įielding has been noted as a novelist who is more popular in the United States and foreign countries, rather than in her native Canada.

And they're the kind of books I like to read. I'm writing exactly the kind of books I like to write. She enjoys catching readers off guard with the endings of her stories, but insists that it "isn't what her fiction is about", but rather more about the development of her characters.ĭiscussing her novels with the Toronto Star in 2008, she said "I might not write fiction in the literary sense. Interview įielding had an interview with the Vancouver Sun in 2007, just after her publication of Heartstopper. They have two daughters, Annie and Shannon, and own property in Toronto, Ontario, as well as Palm Beach, Florida.

Her husband is noted Toronto attorney, Warren Seyffert. She has said that she prefers to set her novels in "big American cities, landscape seems best for themes of urban alienation and loss of identity." įielding is a Canadian citizen. įielding sets most of her novels in American cities such as Boston and Chicago. Fielding's process of having an idea to the point the novel is finished generally takes a year, the writing itself taking four to eight months. She has published 30 novels and 1 Novella (as of September 2022), two of which were converted into film. She had a brief acting career, eventually giving it up to write full-time in 1972. In the 1980s, she was also a regular contributor of book reviews to Jack Farr's CBC Radio program The Radio Show.Īt the age of 8, Tepperman wrote her first story and sent it into a local magazine, and at age 12 sent in her first TV script, however both were rejected. She later changed her last name to Fielding (after Henry Fielding) and began writing novels.įielding is also the screenwriter of the television film Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story. As Joy Tepperman, she had a brief acting career, appearing in the film Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) and in an episode of Gunsmoke. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.īorn in Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966, with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Joy Fielding (née Tepperman born March 18, 1945) is a Canadian novelist and actress.
