Janet has lived in Durban, South Africa since arriving from England in January 1972. Trained as a bakery technologist, she worked in Research & Development at Bakers Ltd before turning to writing in 1985 when a humorous article was accepted by Femina magazine – which shows you what a dearth of humour there must have been.

When a second article was published by Cosmopolitan magazine she thought she was the new Erma Bombeck. Unfortunately, editors didn’t agree. After receiving a blizzard of rejections, she decided to do a writing course.

This eventually led to her co-writing “Write from The beginning – all you need to know about writing the short story” which was published by The Writing School SA.  She then went on to have short stories and articles published in various local and overseas magazines.

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