Janet taught drama and English in comprehensive schools for thirty-five years. During this time, she wrote plays for the pupils to perform and was involved in amateur drama, both as an actor and a director. She has always been an avid reader and her love of literature and a desire to write encouraged her to join a writer's group when she retired. This led to writing short stories and then to writing her first novella, Charitable Thoughts. Janet has two children, Kate and Mark, who both have left the nest, and she lives in Brentwood with her husband, Keith.
