Editing Joy Fielding (section)

==Personal==
At the age of 8, Tepperman wrote her first story and sent it into a local magazine, and at age 12 sent in her first TV script, however both were rejected. She had a brief acting career, eventually giving it up to write full-time in 1972.<ref name="ReferenceA">Wagner, Vit. "Okay With Being 'Popular'; Author Not In The Same League as Joan Didion, But She's Writing the Books She Wants to Write." Toronto Star 28 Mar 2008: E.9. Print.</ref>  She has published 30 novels and 1 Novella (as of September 2022), two of which were converted into film. Fielding's process of having an idea to the point the novel is finished generally takes a year, the writing itself taking four to eight months.<ref name="joyfielding.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.joyfielding.com/ |title=Home |website=joyfielding.com}}</ref>

Fielding sets most of her novels in American cities such as [[Boston]] and [[Chicago]]. She has said that she prefers to set her novels in "big American cities, [as the] landscape seems best for [her] themes of urban alienation and loss of identity."<ref name="joyfielding.com"/>

Fielding is a Canadian citizen. Her husband is noted Toronto attorney, Warren Seyffert.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8015863&ticker=TCK/B:CN|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141223043406/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8015863&ticker=TCK/B:CN|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 23, 2014|title = Stocks}}</ref><ref>Wherry, Aaron. "Author has the world at her doorstep: Joy Fielding: Novelist." National Post 06 Sep 2003, Toronto ed: TO.2. Print.</ref> They have two daughters, Annie and Shannon,<ref name=wong>Wong, Jan. "Home is where the sales aren't for this Canadian novelist." ''The Globe and Mail'' 12 Mr. 1998, Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies, ProQuest. Web. 26 Oct. 2010</ref>  and own property in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], as well as [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], [[Florida]].<ref name="joyfielding.com"/>