Mating Habits Couples Guide A-Z

This little guide contains bits of romantic advice and information for each letter of the alphabet, with a color illustration of an animal couple to share the message of love and encouragement.    

Joanne de Simone was an author, dramatist, and film historian. Two of her seven plays, The Suicide Angel, and Earthmen, are in film pre-production, and several one-acts have been produced in NYC theatre festivals. Joanne’s, Judy’s Dead, took first prize in the Writer’s Digest 79th Annual Stage Play Competition. Ms. de Simone’s full-length play, Olivia’s Roses, debuted at NYC’s Thespis Theater Festival in September 2015. Her film review column appeared in the Fire Island News from 1998-2003 and returned for the 2015 season.

Joanne’s work has been published in various magazines, publications, and film journals. She wrote a children’s book, The Metro Cats: Life in the Core of the Big Apple, and a young adult book, The Peculiar Plight of Milicent Wryght, both urban tales set in Manhattan. She was a member of the Dramatists Guild, the English Speaking Union, the Shakespeare Guild, the Episcopal Actors Guild, the Drama League, a board member of the Veronica Moscoso Foundation, and served as a judge for the Hudson River Classics Showcase Theater Playwriting Contest. Joanne passed away in May 2022.