JanBonoBooks.com
author jan bono
Welcome to JanBonoBooks!
After a 30-year teaching career, I fully embraced my second true love—writing!
I now have 18 books to my credit, ranging from poetry, to collections of my 11-time award-winning humorous, personal experience newspaper columns, all the way to “Pen Pals,” my first more-serious novel, and “The Freedom of the Day: Everyday Silver Linings,” a summer, 2025 release.
I’m blessed to have had 58 stories (and counting!) published in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, making me one of their top five contributors, worldwide!
The Sylvia Avery Mystery Series is now a 5-book cozy mysteries pack, set right where I live—on the Long Beach Peninsula—in the southwest corner of Washington state. Book 2 is no longer in print, but you don’t need it to enjoy the five stand-alone stories of the series. Check the SHOP page to see the new discounts.
Year round, I attend many types of bazaars and craft fairs. Please check my CALENDAR page for specific details on where you can meet me, and browse my books, IN PERSON!!
Cozy Mysteries
A “cozy” mystery has NO graphic violence, NO obscene language, and NO explicit sex scenes. A cozy takes place in a small town, has an amateur sleuth who works with the police department, a quirky cast of characters, and, especially in my case, a LOT of humor!
The Sylvia Avery Mystery series is now complete with six books, all set on the Long Beach Peninsula in SW Washington.
Books 1 and 2, Bottom Feeders and Starfish, came out in 2015. Book 3, Crab Bait, was published in 2018, and Book 4, Hook, Line, & Sinker, in
Featured Title
The Freedom of the Day: Everyday Silver Linings
Remember the good old days when kids were turned loose, unsupervised, for a whole glorious day of adventure and fun? Why not continue looking for the good stuff in life and enjoying our moments, days, and pivotal points no matter what our age?
Highlights
Bono’s stories have been featured in 56 “Chicken Soup” books, making her one of the series’ top five contributors, worldwide. Ten years writing an op-ed newspaper column garnered her 11 Washington Newspaper Publisher Awards (WNPA). She has written several humorous, personal experience short story collections; poetry chapbooks; short romances; nine one-act plays; a dinner theater play; and two books of “serious fiction.” Bono was the grand prize winner in the 2012 Coast Weekend serial mystery chapter contest. That experience inspired her to write the 6-book cozy mystery series she describes as being like “Murder, She Wrote” – only a lot funnier.
Published Books
"chicken soup for the soul" book features
"chicken soup for the soul" book features
Newpaper Op-Eds
published plays
magazine articles
Washington Newspaper Publisher Awards
One of Bono’s more memorable columns was about putting tinsel on her Christmas tree while naked to keep the foil from clinging to her bathrobe.
– The Daily News
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