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Judith Janeway

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Judith Janeway is the award-winning author of four novels. Her lifelong love of mystery and suspense infuses her recent works, The Magician’s Daughter and the psychological thriller, Odds of Dying.

The Street Artist, a piece of flash fiction, won the Orlando Prize and was published in the Los Angeles Review. Judith also has a short story, Get A Life, in the forthcoming Sisters in Crime anthology, Fault Lines.

Judith holds a master’s degree in Comparative Literature and a doctorate in Health Psychology. While raising her family and continuing to write and publish fiction, she pursued a career as a social science researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, studying people coping with life-threatening illnesses and their caregiv ...more

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Judith Janeway I think Penelope and Odysseus are my all time favorite fictional couple. Odysseus encounters many dangerous situations on his return from the battle o…moreI think Penelope and Odysseus are my all time favorite fictional couple. Odysseus encounters many dangerous situations on his return from the battle of Troy and uses his wit and cunning to survive them. Penelope stays at home in Ithaca, which has become a dangerous place in its own right. She has to fend off the one hundred and eight strong young men who have moved into her house demanding she pick one of them to marry. (After ten years, they believe Odysseus must be dead). With wit and cunning equal to her husband’s , she holds them off by telling them they must wait until she finishes weaving a shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes. She works on the shroud every day, and every night she unravels it. When Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca and takes care of the suitors, Penelope makes him pass a test before she welcomes him as her husband. She asks him to move their bed. He says it’s impossible because he built the bed himself and one of the bedposts is a tree rooted in the ground beneath them. I love that in this oldest extant work of Western literature (along with the Ilead dating from 800 BCE) the woman is as mentally strong and clever as her husband. Now that’s a couple! (less)

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Where is your website? Is it really coming soon? Have you thought about doing it as a blog of all your good ideas and insights?

Judith Janeway Yes, James, there is a website, and it is coming soon. Soon being next week. Or the week after. Maybe. No slur on Josh Neimark and the fabulous folk a…moreYes, James, there is a website, and it is coming soon. Soon being next week. Or the week after. Maybe. No slur on Josh Neimark and the fabulous folk at Fix8 Media. The delay is my fault because I’m a woman who knows her mind and can say what she wants—as soon as she sees something that isn’t what she wants. As a result, a certain amount of fiddling has occurred. Not fiddling like Nero or Iszhtak Perlman, but fiddling like making fixes in a borderline obsessive manner.
The result will be a New and Improved website with Extra Strength, designed with the discriminating reader in mind. Or, to be completely transparent, designed with all readers in mind. And not only that, but Judith Janeway’s new website will be completely free! And gluten-free as well!
FYI, no animal’s feelings were hurt in the making of this website. (less)

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Average rating: 3.74 · 116 ratings · 41 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Magician's Daughter (Valentine Hill, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Accidental Marriage 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Convenient Arrangement by Judith Janeway (Goodreads Author), Judith Wrubel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odds of Dying: an Alison Weaver Mystery (Alison Weaver Mysteries #1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Une séduisante locataire : Collection : Harlequin horizon n° 1388 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Une dangereuse attirance / Femme d'affaires cherche mari... / Mariée malgré elle by Lilian Peake, Linda Randall Wisdom, Judith Janeway (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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