Joyce is civilian employee for the Township of Shaler Police Department just outside Pittsburgh, PA.  As a writer, she has been published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Magazine, and the FBI Bulletin.  Recently, she signed with an agent for her first mystery novel, which features an ex-police officer who teaches taekwondo. It's the first in a series.  She is also the Vice-President of the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters in Crime and a member of Pennwriters.

She can be reached via her website at Joyce Tremel or blog – Musings of a Middle-Aged Writer. And, she is a regular contributor to a blog featuring Pittsburgh writers called Working Stiffs where she writes about her day job working for the police department.