Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Janet Evanovich is the author of the Stephanie Plum books, including One for the Money and Sizzling Sixteen, and the Diesel & Tucker series, including Wicked Appetite. Janet studied painting at Douglass College, but that art form never quite fit, and she soon moved on to writing stories. She didn’ t have instant success: she collected a big box of rejection letters. As she puts it, “ When the box was full I burned the whole damn thing, crammed myself into pantyhose and went to work for a temp agency. ” But after a few months of secretarial work, she managed to sell her first novel for $2, 000. She immediately quit her job and started working full-time as a writer. After 12 romance novels, she switched to mystery, and created Stephanie Plum. The rest is history. Janet’ s favorite exercise is shopping, and her drug of choice is Cheeze Doodles. She and her husband live in New Hampshire, in house with a view of the Connecticut River Valley.