J.A. Jance Biography

J.A. Jance is the New York Times best-selling author of the J.P. Beaumont series the Joanna Brady series and three inter-related thrillers. She has written over 30 novels and she has more than 10 million copies of her books in print.
Jances pursuit of her life-long dream of becoming a writer was one filled with a myriad of stumbling blocks. As a college student she was discouraged from writing and told that women ought to be teachers or nurses and not novelists. Her first husband a chronic alcoholic followed suit and told her that despite never having anything published he would be the only writer in the family. After thirteen years of marriage Jance finally left her first husband to save herself and her children and escaped to Seattle. With the death of her ex-husband a year and a half later Jance became the sole provider for her two children and struggled to make ends meet with a full-time job selling life insurance. In 1982 her desire to write became too strong to ignore and her first three novels were written between the hours of 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. at which time she would wake up her children for school. At the time people told her she was crazy saying that to start writing at age 39 and to go on to a successful writing career was highly unlikely. Luckily she ignored all the naysayers.

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