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Joy Ferguson
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Expertise: Health, Nutrition
Joy Ferguson is a professional freelance writer, researcher and fact-checker with 20 years of experience working for over 50 U.S. and Canadian magazines ranging in genres from Maclean’s to Clean Eating to House & Home.
As a book author, her titles include Magickal Weddings, Learning About Caves, and most recently, under the pen name Margaret J. Butler, the supernatural fiction AfterDeath. When not working, Joy/Margaret can be found haunting local bookshops near her home in Southwestern Ontario.
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