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Jan Lister Caldwell has published several works, including science-fiction adventure novels for the middle reader, children’s verse, and a collection of short stories for younger children. She has worked as a free-lance journalist, regularly writing feature articles with photos for The Daily Gleaner, a province-wide paper based in Fredericton, NB. She has a diploma in office administration and is a Certified Teaching Assistant and worked in the school system several years as a Supply Teacher, Supply TA, and Supply Secretary. She is currently managing a large daycare.
Her work included cover stories and photos for its three weekly magazines. Having worked with several schools in New Brunswick, Ontario, and Maine, and with local libraries, her stories were tested extensively. She published an adventure series, testing the market and contacting reviewers. When the series was first published with advance copies for testing, the Canadian Book Review Annual gave the series a ‘Highly Recommended’ for each of the four reviewed - Time-Travel Runaway, Cousin Clash, The Young Lion and the Castle Curse, and Captain Blackheart’s Gold. Several other reviewers have had similar praise. The series was picked up by several Canadian educational distributors and a Canada-wide bookstore distributor. Unfortunately before she could get underway the printer doing the books suddenly went out of business leaving her to cancel the orders. She was becoming ill during this time and had to put all but the actual writing on hold until she recovered. She did have enough of a print-run of the fourth book, Captain Blackheart’s Gold, to offer it for review by the Dept. of Education of New Brunswick and it was in the school book bureau catalogue in NB for several years. The Science Fair Disaster, released in 2004, is on school book bureau catalog with the Dept. of Education in Nova Scotia. Since the recovery of her health, she has started over with renewed energy for writing, illustrating, and painting. Time-Travel Runaway and Cousin Clash were recently available online but were cancelled in preparation for the re-launch of a newly rewritten series, beginning with Time-Travel Runaway under the new series title, The Bill Little Adventures, slated to be published by July 2014. Janet is also doing the cover art and has plans to republish stories for the younger children complete with illustrations.


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Jan Lister Caldwell has published several works, including science-fiction adventure novels for the middle reader, children’s verse, and a collection of short stories for younger children. She has worked as a free-lance journalist, regularly writing feature articles with photos for The Daily Gleaner, a province-wide paper based in Fredericton, NB. She has a diploma in office administrat... More