Announcement: My medieval romances, The Secret Life of Lady Evangeline and The Sword and the Secrets are officially up for pre-order! Click on the Books link above for vendor links, or click here. Or go to Wild Heart Books.
Welcome!
Come on in and have a seat! I'm Jan Warren and I love both reading and writing. Others have asked me why I write. This is a very personal question for me. As a Christian, I believe the Bible needs to be the most read book of every home. When I felt led to “fast” from TV and movies for a year, I asked the Lord what He would have me do with my time. The answer surprised me. Write fiction? At first I thought that couldn’t be right and rebuked the thought and prayed some more.
The stories in me refused to be ignored. The story usually began with a premise–an overall theme. Like the first one was about an heiress who was being sought by a unscrupulous man who wanted to marry her for her fortune. He had also planned to eliminate her family to do it. I could barely get that story onto paper when the next story came bubbling up like a spring until I wrote them down. I wrote in longhand on notebook paper. Then my husband bought me a laptop which my grown children had to help me learn to use.
It turns out I was writing inspirational romantic suspense—before there was a market for such a genre.
The stories in me refused to be ignored. The story usually began with a premise–an overall theme. Like the first one was about an heiress who was being sought by a unscrupulous man who wanted to marry her for her fortune. He had also planned to eliminate her family to do it. I could barely get that story onto paper when the next story came bubbling up like a spring until I wrote them down. I wrote in longhand on notebook paper. Then my husband bought me a laptop which my grown children had to help me learn to use.
It turns out I was writing inspirational romantic suspense—before there was a market for such a genre.
A Kiss is Still a KissA collection of short stories by bestselling authors. Jan has two: Zoo Day Mystery and Factor X.
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Romantic SuspenseJan won the 2015 Christian Writers of the West ACFW—Arizona in Romantic Suspense category.
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HistoricalToo, Jan won Touched By Love contest sponsored by Romance of America's Faith, Hope and Love chapter---both the Historical category AND the Overall category with her book called The Secret Life of Lady Evangeline.
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