January Jones Sharing Success Stories

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jan M. Martin gained notoriety when she was featured on the front page of the NOGALES INTERNATIONAL newspaper for winning a national contest {and $1600.00} with her comedic poem about her messy kitchen. She still is fond of writing slapstick poetry on diverse topics such as Black Friday, Mother's Day, and her kitchen timer, some of which can be seen by clicking on "Writings" in the menu above. She was employed at Mariposa Community Health Center as a Nutrition Educator and Tobacco Prevention Coordinator until her retirement. She also has been teaching religious education to high school students for the past 30 years. Her extensive nutrition research led to her devising a . . . um . . . highly unusual murder weapon for HEIR OF DECEIT. Jan and her husband researched in North Carolina for HEIR OF DECEIT, where they met with local people, including famous moonshiner, the late Popcorn Sutton, whom she features briefly in her book. They visited the ancient Cherokee homeland, where they learned o