Joan M. Shoup
Joan M. Shoup is an award-winning professional editor and author. An editor with Abingdon Press, an imprint of The United Methodist Publishing House, for many years, she is currently the publisher and editorial director of Sheaf House Publishers, a small press headquartered outside Nashville, Tennessee.
Joan graduated from Indiana University cum laude, taking a degree in Germanic languages, with minors in history and English. Before joining Abingdon Press, she worked for The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, assisting with the development and production of the only weekly television program devoted to First Amendment rights, broadcast nationally on PBS. In the mid 1990s, she served as assistant editor for the General Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Writing as J. M. Hochstetler, Joan is the author of the critically acclaimed American Patriot Series, the only comprehensive historical fiction series on the American Revolution. She has also published a contemporary novel, One Holy Night, which was awarded the Christian Small Publishers 2009 Book of the Year and finaled in the American Christian Fiction Writers Carol Award. In 2010 she received the Carol Award as editor of The Case of the Mystified M.D. by A. K. Arenz.
The wife of a retired United Methodist minister, she lives near Nashville, Tennessee.
Joan graduated from Indiana University cum laude, taking a degree in Germanic languages, with minors in history and English. Before joining Abingdon Press, she worked for The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, assisting with the development and production of the only weekly television program devoted to First Amendment rights, broadcast nationally on PBS. In the mid 1990s, she served as assistant editor for the General Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Writing as J. M. Hochstetler, Joan is the author of the critically acclaimed American Patriot Series, the only comprehensive historical fiction series on the American Revolution. She has also published a contemporary novel, One Holy Night, which was awarded the Christian Small Publishers 2009 Book of the Year and finaled in the American Christian Fiction Writers Carol Award. In 2010 she received the Carol Award as editor of The Case of the Mystified M.D. by A. K. Arenz.
The wife of a retired United Methodist minister, she lives near Nashville, Tennessee.
