joan koster

When she is not writing in her studio by the sea, Joan lives an 1860s farmhouse stacked to the ceiling with books. In a life full of adventures, she has scaled mountains, chased sheep, and been abandoned on an island for longer than she wants to remember.

An ethnographer, educator, and award-winning author who loves mentoring writers, Joan blends her love of history, and romance into historical novels about women who shouldn’t be forgotten and into romantic thrillers under the pen name, Zara West. She is the author of the award-winning romantic suspense series The Skin Quartet, the Tide Harbor series, the Forgotten Women series, and the top-selling Write for Success series.

Joan blogs at JoanKoster.com, Women Words and Wisdom, American Civil War Voice, Zara West Romance, and Zara West’s Journal and teaches numerous online writing courses.

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https://zarawest.me
Genres I write in...
  1. Romance
  2. Contemporary Romance
  3. Women's fiction
  4. Young Adult
  5. Literary Fiction
  6. Thriller/Suspense/Mystery
  7. Historical
  8. Non-fiction
  9. Middle grade
  10. Paranormal Romance
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Joan Koster
Eye-opening historical fiction and Write for Success books for all
New release: Prairie Cinderella: Vinnie Ream and the Gilded Age

Writing also as . . .
Zara West Romance
Where falling in love is always an adventure
New release: Lost Beneath the Tide: A Tide Harbor Suspense

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