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Joy Selak is an author, nonprofit leader and philanthropic advisor in Austin, TX. CeeGee's Gift is her second book and was based on her one act play which won the San Juan Islands Playwrights Festival and was produced for the stage. The manuscript for the novel was awarded Best Young Adult Fiction by the Writers' League of Texas. The published novel won the Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence in YA Fiction for 2019.

Her first book, You Don’t LOOK Sick! Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness was written with her physician and is a guide for navigating long term illness. USABookNews named You Don’t LOOK Sick! a Finalist for Best Health Book. Joy has spoken across the US to patient groups about the themes of this book.

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Okay, I am going to sound like an old lady here, but as we used to say at Smith Barney back in the day, ‘I did it the old-fashioned way, I earned it.’

There is a trend in current speech patterns that I find really, really irritating. And I have a right to that irritation. I was an English Major and a Speech Minor in college, so speech patterns matter to me. Here is the old lady part. The thing tha

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