The Five Books That Inspired J.A. Jance to Become a Writer By far the most influential book in my life—and the one that inspired my career path for the past forty years—was L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, which I read as a second grader in Mrs. Spangler’s classroom at Greenway School in […]
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Writing Tips from J.A. Jance
If you want to be a writer, read! Why people who don’t read books still want to write them is more than I can understand. If you want to be a writer, write what you love and respect your readers. If you look down your nose at genre fiction and are only writing a mystery […]