Fun Things To Know And Tell About Jane
Jane Lebak wrote her first book at age three, in magenta crayon, on green-bar computer paper. Her writing has improved since 1975, but the passion remains.
Jane finished her first novel at age thirteen, and she had a novel contracted by Thomas Nelson in 1993 when she was 20 years old, enrolled in the English and Religious Studies programs at Cornell University. The Guardian, a fantasy about angels, was published under the name Jane Hamilton the next year when she was in the MA writing program at SUNY Brockport. It sold 23,000 copies plus 5,000 copies of a Crossings Book Club edition, before being declared out of print.
Jane got married in 1995 and delayed her publication goals to begin her family, but she never stopped writing. She has had short fiction published in Catfantastic IV, Dragons, Knights and Angels, The Sword Review, and Liguorian Magazine, among others, and nonfiction published in Chicken Soup For The Cat Lover's Soul, Holding Hands With God, Byline, Celebrate Life Magazine, Mothering Magazine, Parenting New Hampshire, and several more. Numerous humor pieces have appeared in The Wittenburg Door, New Christian Voices, and in The Compleat Mother. Although Thomas Nelson insisted she change her maiden name to a pen name, she now publishes under her married name.
Beginning in January, 2008, Jane's novel Seven Archangels: Annihilation was serialized in MindFlights Magazine while at the same time being published by Double Edged Publishing "for the impatient." It remains in print. Another Seven Archangels book will be published in the near future. Her novella "The Boys Upstairs" was under contract with Lilley Press until it shut down in November, 2009. She maintains a weblog at http://philangelus.wordpress.com which receives approximately 6000 hits a month and has 400 "regulars."
Jane and her husband James have had five children, meaning her time-management skills are about as good as they're going to get, so she is writing and publishing regularly again. They are currently raising four children at their home in the greater Boston area. Their fifth baby was diagnosed during a "routine" ultrasound with a fatal birth defect and survived for two hours after birth. Jane used those experiences to create the Carrying To Term website, an online guide for parents who are coping with a fatal diagnosis for their baby, available at http://www.janelebak/ctt/index.html.
This is Jane:
and this is Jane's family:
Home Page My Bibliography (doesn't that sound so academic?) Seven Archangels: Annihilation The Carrying To Term website, featuring Emily Rose's story My Weblog: Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family My Twitter account Angel art courtesy of Wendy Dinsmore
