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Resident pens book as retirement hobby

by | Jul 29, 2021 | Latest

If suspense and mystery are your preferred literary genres, you might want to check out one of Farmersville’s newest authors, J. Boyce, also known to locals as Jerry Boyce Holder.

The COVID-19 pandemic provided the expanse of time and opportunity for Holder, a 74-year-old retired IT special­ist, to finish “Sailing to Mex­ico,” a novel about a North Texas man who owns a sailboat and subsequently becomes in­volved in the throes of an ad­venture with his girlfriend as they search for their friends, a missing couple.

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By Sonia Duggan[email protected]

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