Sandridge Publications
Welcome to JanBonoBooks.com
Thanks for checking out my website! After concluding a 30-year stint as a classroom teacher, I’m now charging full-throttle into my second career, and love: Writing!
I wrote a humorous personal experience newspaper column for over 10 years, gleaning 11 state awards. My first book, “Through My Looking Glass, The View from the Beach,” is a collection of those WNPA award-winning columns.
My second book, “Just Joshin’, A Year in the Life of a Not-so-ordinary 4th Grade Kid,” is a lighthearted collection of 63 classroom anecdotes. Deciding to self-publish “Just Joshin’,” I created my own company, Sandridge Publications, in 2009.
One-act plays caught my attention in 2008, and I wrote the first and second place winners for the Willapa Players’ contest in Raymond, Washington that year. To date, I have nine one-act plays and a dinner theater play that have all “seen the boards.”
I’m a frequent contributor the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, and have placed over a dozen stories with them in the past year alone. I have written two poetry chapbooks. My short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, ranging from Guidepost to Star.
My first novel, a “Cozy Mystery,” is now finished and in the process of attracting the perfect agent and publishing house. It is the first book in a series, and takes place on the southwest Washington Coast.
I teach writing to adults who’ve always wanted to write, and I’m available to do a variety of hands-on workshops and/or speaking engagements for any size group. I also do individual editing, critique, and writing coaching.
Humorous personal observations, life coaching tips, Law of Attraction stories, and many other entertaining things that catch my attention appear in my blog, posted every odd-numbered day since January, 2009. (See Link)
Thanks again for checking out my books, CDs, plays and blog. Materials ordered through this website are usually mailed within one week.
