Janet in the Paleolithic Era
(add eighteen years and
twenty-five pounds)Janet began her writing career at age twelve with the sci-fi screenplay “The Sounds of Quazon” which consisted of about a paragraph in which two astronauts engaged in such titillating dialogue as: “Did you hear that?” “What was that?”

Janet’s next writing project was at nineteen when she co-wrote a play for a real estate company’s Christmas party. She was paid fifty dollars for her work and the clients were very happy.

Her true passion for writing ignited when she took a playwriting class at UC Santa Cruz in 1988. After achieving her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts (with an emphasis in acting) in 1989, Janet developed and taught an after-school drama program at Pescadero High School and wrote in her spare time. After four years, she quit teaching to write full-time.

In 1999, after completing ten novels, Janet started writing a monthly humor column for CoastViews magazine, a job she currently holds today. In 2000, she sold her first reprint to Funny Times and her work continues to appear in the national magazine. In 2003, she pitched the idea for an advice column, What Would Janet Do? to her publisher at CoastViews. Her advice column continues to be one of the most popular features of the magazine.

In 2004, in addition to her novels and columns, Janet began writing short romantic fiction for a commercial website under a pen name. She has sold over fifty stories to the website and continues to write four stories per month. In 2006, her short stories were compiled into two books which sell through the website and Lulu.com. Janet is consistently the top selling author featured on the website. Her next compilation will be released in early 2008.

Janet is a member of the Romance Writers of America. For the past fourteen years, she has performed as Master of Ceremonies for The Pescadero Arts and Fun Festival. She lives in Northern California and has been married since the dawn of civilization to her husband, Frank. She has an ornery cat named Pooter who drools when she pets him. In her spare time, Janet tries not to fall off her Razor-type scooter, which she uses to run errands.