I recently had the pleasure of talking, via Skype, with Bellows Falls, Vermont’s own Rockingham Free Public Library’s monthly book group. This month they all read STRANDED! And they hit me with a pile of great questions, including: Since you’re a guy, how were you...
(I can hear you saying, “Wait a minute, wise guy…. Who wants to get stranded in a school?”) What I mean to say is … my multi-award-winning YA novel (ahem, crow crow), STRANDED: A STORY OF FRONTIER SURVIVAL, is now available in a large-print edition specifically for...
I recently found out that STRANDED has received two more awards, the High Plains Book Award for Best Young Adult Book and the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Young Readers. The director of the Will Rogers Medallion Awards had this to say about STRANDED: “The gold...
Holy moly–STRANDED has won the Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction by the estimable group, Women Writing the West. I am so grateful for this honor, and I continue to be amazed by this book. Go, Janette, go! Here’s a link:...
Two new rave reviews of STRANDED are stomping all over the finest newsstands now. The first, from Big Sky Journal: “… puts the reader in Riker’s well-worn shoes. Her story … has an authentic and moving voice … meticulous research and matter-of-fact reporting … a...
