Joan Donaldson-Yarmey began her writing career with a short story, progressed to travel and historical articles, and then on to travel books. Between 1990 and 2000, Joan travelled through and researched the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, the territory of the Yukon, and the state of Alaska and wrote seven books about them.
She called these books her Backroads series, and in them, she described what there is to see and do along their back roads. Once she was finished travelling, she switched to fiction writing and has had five mystery novels published: A Killer Match is the first in her Dating Coach Mystery Series; Gold Fever is a stand-alone mystery/romance; and Illegally Dead, The Only Shadow In The House, and Whistler's Murder are three novels in her Travelling Detective Series.
Romancing the Klondike, Rushing the Klondike, and Sleuthing the Klondike are her Yukon Historical Novels. Joan has also published two Canadian Historical novels for young adults: West To The Bay and West to Grande Portage. She has had one holiday romance, The Twelve Dates of Christmas (which was written with her sister Gwen Donaldson), published and they have a second holiday romance coming out in November titled Single Bells.
Joan was born in New Westminster, B.C. Canada, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Since she loves change, Joan has moved over thirty times in her life, living on acreages and farms and in small towns and cities throughout Alberta and B.C. After seventeen years on Vancouver Island, she is now back in Edmonton.
Joan belongs to Crime Writers of Canada and Writer's Guild of Alberta.
