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Born: 10/18/1943  Rhinebeck
Parents: Wilma C. (Hegwood) and Edwin T. Heywood
Spouse: Sandra V. Heywood (1943-2002/deceased); Madelon Louise "Lonnie" Richardson-Miars (2010 - )
Children: Timothy Brian, Todd Alan, Troy Joseph, Trevor Michael, Tara Lynne
Address(es):
Permanent:
1603 Edington
Portage, MI 49024
Contact Information:
Phone: (269) 327-0865
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.josephheywood.com/

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Buckular dystrophy : a woods cop mystery	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press	2016
	Harder ground : more woods cop stories / Joseph Heywood	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery, Short Stories	Adult	Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield,	2015
	Mountains of the misbegotten : a Lute Bapcat mystery - Sequel to: Red jacket.	Historical Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press	2014
	Hard ground : woods cop stories	Fiction, Action, Michigan, Mystery, Short Stories	Adult	Guilford, Conneticut : Lyons Press	2013
	Red jacket : a Lute Bapcat mystery - Lute Bapcat, former cowboy and Rough Rider, is handpicked by Theodore Roosevelt in 1913 to become one of Michigan's first civil service game wardens. With a stunning array of characters and fascinating historical detail, the story chronicles a bloody labor strike marked by vicious sabotage tactics and Lute Bapcat's efforts to defray the violence.	Historical Fiction, Michigan		Guilford, CT : Lyons Press	2012
	Force of blood : a woods cop mystery	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, CT : Lyons Press	2011
	Shadow of the wolf tree : a woods cop mystery	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2010
	Death roe : a woods cop mystery	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2008
	Strike dog : a woods cop mystery	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2007
	Running Dark - Woods Cop Series #4	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2005
	Ice Hunter	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2005
	Covered Waters: Diary of a Nomadic Trouter - Memoir, essays	Non Fiction, Travel	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2003
	Chasing a Blond Moon - Woods Cop Series #3	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2003
	Blue Wolf in Green Fire - Woods Cop Series #2	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2002
	Ice Hunter : a novel - Woods Cop Series #1	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press	2001
	The snowfly : a novel - The snowfly, a legendary insect--enormous, white, and exceedingly rare--that attracts trout of such size that they couldn't possibley exist in the world as we know it. But in THE SNOWFLY, such things can and do exist.	Fiction, Mystery		New York : Lyons Press	2000
	The Domino Conspiracy - 1961 Khrushchev-Kennedy meeting in Vienna	Historical Fiction, Suspense/Thriller	Adult	New York : Random House	1992
	The Berkut - International thriller, World War II	Fiction, Suspense/Thriller	Adult	New York : Random House	1987
	Taxi Dancer - Adventure/action, Vietnam air war	Fiction, Action, Adventure	Adult	New York : Berkley Books	1985
	Box Seats - Short story in "The Trial Balloon"	Non Fiction	Adult		1975
	The Water Hole - Short story in "The Trail Balloon"	Non Fiction	Adult		1974
	A Short Time in Thailand - Professional military publication	Non Fiction	Adult	The Navigator	1970
	Final Decision - Professional military publication	Non Fiction	Adult	Combat Crew	1970
	The ABCs of Snowmobiling - Cartoons	Non Fiction	Adult	Steglein	1969
	Bailout - Professional military publication	Non Fiction	Adult	The Navigator	1969
	Other writings: - Many essays, columns and poetry published in The RIVERWATCH, ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM, Flyanglersonline.com, Trout Bums-The Poet Lariat Column	Non Fiction	Adult
	Killing a Cold One : a woods cop mystery	Fiction, Folklore, Michigan, Suspense/Thriller	Adult	Guilford, Conneticut : Lyons Press
	Mountains of the misbegotten	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	Guilford, CT : Lyons Press

What is the aim or goal of your writing: I can't not. My success is due to persistence, luck, and a great agent. Contemporary Authors says, "I work in a dark basement at an oak roll-top desk without a desktop lamp, a television above me (which is on and loud all the time), and surrounded by dusty, musty gewgaws. I need stimuli (sound) to write, but I tend to edit and revise in stone silence. Over the years I've probably heard bits and pieces of several thousand movies. From time to time mice come to check my progress. One year I bought traps to kill them but couldn't handle the reality of it. "When I'm working, ten or twelve hours can pass in a snap. It's quite extraordinary what happens to time when your nose is down. I have no real advice for aspiring writers other than to write every day and everywhere. I firmly believe that good work will eventually find light, but you have to do the work. For me, it's the work that's good, not the collateral activities related to publishing. My high comes when the first draft is done, not when there are books on shelves. Writing excites rather than depresses--even revisions. Many people have talents for all sorts of endeavors, but few have the discipline to do the work and stay at it. No writer is ever as good as he wants to be, which is where the continuity comes from--the endless drive to do it better, cleaner, more efficiently--this being the contest with yourself, one that ultimately cannot be won. I've always got ten more novels in mind. The world presents me with new ideas virtually every day. I thank it for such generosity."

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