Joy House Publishing, LLC
Making dreams come true, one book at a time
We are a small publishing house dedicated to helping exceptional new authors bring their literary creations to life. Our services include writing assistance, professional editing, and captivating design for both novels and nonfiction works. Whether you're looking to publish in paperback, hardcover, or eBook format, we're here to guide you through the process.
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Joy House Publishing
Titles
Focused Moments: Connecting through stories and mindful leadership
by Danielle Lord, Ph.D. and Anika Klix M.A. (2025)
This book is your versatile companion, serving as a journal, conversation starter, discussion prompt, or a source of inspiration to provoke meaningful thought. Inside, you’ll discover:
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Practical ways to uplift and motivate your team.
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Leadership lessons drawn from nature and animals.
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Actionable strategies to incorporate mindfulness into your workplace.
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Guided meditations tailored for work environments.
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Thought-provoking prompts to inspire reflection and enrich team meetings.
Harness the power ofFocused Moments to create shared experiences, foster meaningful connections, and cultivate a culture of positivity, growth, and collaboration. Transform your leadership journey today with this insightful and empowering guide.
Engaging Your Employees: 12 Heart-Centered Strategies to Drive Your Organization's Culture & Commitment
by Danielle Lord, Ph.D. (2024)
Start with the heart! When did we determine that business and kindness were mutually exclusive or beneficial? Multiple variables and environmental factors have created organizations with cultures that do not support humans. Our unwillingness to respond with kindness, empathy, and heart has resulted in apathy among team members and leaders alike. We can do better!
Focused Moments: Creating Shared Experiences and Positive Team Dynamics in Leadership
by Danielle Lord, Ph.D. (2023)
The meeting room table is the modern equivalent of the campfire. It's where stories are told, cultural norms are reinforced, heroes are born, and we find our part in the tribe. Storytelling also conveys a great deal of imagery; days that were less hectic and frantic, the powerful bond of a sense of community through a more meaningful connection, and the act of conversation and feeling heard.In addition to inspiring stories and a collection of beautiful photography, Focused Moments allows you to slow down, be present in the moment, and give your brain the space it needs to process and appreciate all that is around us.
Matagorda Breeze
by Lyla Hopper (2020)
The Age of Oil ends in a cataclysm that kills millions of people. Two centuries after The Day, mankind has adapted, and a second Age of Sail is thriving.Ruby Turner is the first woman to serve aboard ships of the Gulf Shipping Company. She’s an excellent Navigator, but the Commodore has promoted her to Captain of the Matagorda Breeze, a ne’er-do-well ship where sailors who can’t quite make the grade elsewhere end up. She’s got to prove to the Commodore, herself, and her new team that she’s got what it takes to turn the ship around. On the way, she must face the biggest challenges of her career. Adventure awaits!
Life at the Market
by Wendy Allen (2018)
Unexpected things happen at the market on a daily basis. Clerks fall in love with other clerks ; customers find true love in aisle four; a customer's van catches fire in the parking lot as someone collapses from a heart attack while trying to help. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the drama and life at the market. This book is full of humor, wit, and life lessons. Surely, never a dull moment!
Joy House Authors
Danielle Lord, Ph.D.
Business/Leadership
Danielle Lord has 30 years of experience in the field of leadership development and theory. Driven by a passion to find solutions as well as a desire to reduce organizational pain, Danielle has made a career in the field of organizational development, specializing in adult learning and leadership development. She helps leaders understand not only how to lead more effectively, but why it's important, and how to create a culture of commitment.
Lyla Hopper
Fiction
By training and trade, Lyla is a software developer, and in her copious free time she's an empath, a wife, a cook, mommy to the cutest dog EVER (fight her on this!), a full-time RVer, and a woodworker....and now, a first-time published novelist. Lyla spent her high school years in East Texas, the home of many wonderful lakes, moving there when her father retired to "go fishing every day until the day I die."
Lyla's next book will bring to the fore some of her own experiences as a transgender woman, in a boy-meets-girl romance set in a small Midwestern town. We look forward to novel #2!
Wendy Allen
Fiction
Wendy Allen, author of Life at the Market, is from Bellingham, WA and wrote her story in a spiral-bound notebook during a time when she was healing from a scooter accident. Not satisfied to just sit around and be idle, she put her thoughts on paper, literally. Eight years later, after dreaming of actually publishing her story, we made it happen. Joy House Publishing was honored and excited to make Wendy's dream of becoming a published author, a reality!
What we've been up to
Joy House Releases
2025
Focused Moments: Connecting through stories and mindful leadership
2nd Edition
by Danielle Lord, Ph.D. and Anika Klix, MA
2024
Engaging Your Employees: 12 Heart-Centered Strategies to Drive Your Organization's Culture & Commitment
by Danielle Lord, Ph.D.
2023
Focused Moments: Creating Shared Experiences and Positive
Team Dynamics in Leadership
by Danielle Lord, Ph.D.
2020
Matagorda Breeze
by Lyla Hopper
2018
Associate editor for
600 Days in Hiding
by Andreas A. Algava,
Life at the Market
by Wendy Allen
2015
Contributor to
Reflections: Ultra Short Personal Narratives.
Published by Telling Our Stories Press
2014
Associate editor for
Sea-Fence! The Story of Big Lo, Super Fan
by Lorin Sandretzky,
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”