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Janet Parkhurst

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Janet L. Parkhurst is a former advertising and marketing copywriter whose true love for writing involves “real life and real people”. Through the years she has penned, in her spare time, The Wild Flowers, a humorous, yet sad and sensitive, tome about growing up in the highly controversial 1960s, The Bear That Wouldn’t Share, an elaborately rhymed picture book for young children in their impression-able years, and The Over-40, Get-Fit, Not-Fat Plan (no real explanation needed, there.)*

When Ashley Martin contacted her about telling her story, Janet seized the opportunity. In A Second Pair of Eyes, she made it her mission to tenderly portray a sincere, very transparent young career woman, whose personal life dream is shared by so many others. Janet L. Parkhurst is a former advertising and marketing copywriter whose true love for writing involves “real life and real people”. Through the years she has penned, in her spare time, The Wild Flowers, a humorous, yet sad and sensitive, tome about growing up in the highly controversial 1960s, The Bear That Wouldn’t Share, an elaborately rhymed picture book for young children in their impression-able years, and The Over-40, Get-Fit, Not-Fat Plan (no real explanation needed, there.)*

When Ashley Martin contacted her about telling her story, Janet seized the opportunity. In A Second Pair of Eyes, she made it her mission to tenderly portray a sincere, very transparent young career woman, whose personal life dream is shared by so many others. This was her first experience working as a ghostwriter.

Janet grew up in a suburb south of Boston, Massachusetts, where she discovered a love for the written word at around age eight. To this day, she credits her mom for insisting that she and her siblings borrow books from the public library and read as much as possible in their spare time, i.e., “the best education, ever!” (But when she announced her intent to become a writer at the dinner table, her father groaned in despair—he wanted his kids to pursue “practical” vocations.) She also loved drawing and painting which, much later, evolved into studies at Rhode Island School of Design. Janet also studied ballet, starting at age 4 at a local dance studio, and ending up at The Boston Ballet as a young adult, where she performed in The Nutcracker, Alice in Wonderland, and several others. She also succeeded with a brief stint as a model in the Boston/ Brookline/Cambridge area. But it was her gift with writing (and ideas) that took her through a long career in advertising.

A freelance writer living in Foxboro, Massachusetts, Janet hopes to work with Ms. Martin again, on what could develop into a sequel to A Second Pair of Eyes.

*Publish dates, at this writing, are yet to be determined

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A Second Pair of Eyes
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Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You

by Bill Burnett

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Janet Parkhurst said: " This is actually the second time I'm reading this book. It has the approach of an artist when it comes to either transforming your life or total reinvention. It's a non-threatening, fun read that inspires change and development and, above all, realiz ...more "

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