Bio

An avid reader and chronic journal writer as a teen, after college Janet worked as a copywriter in radio and television. Somehow she was lured over to corporate sales and marketing where she worked for top consumer good companies until her son was born. Eventually Janet returned to her first love of writing and once she found Young Adult books she has never looked back.

Her first Young Adult book, WAITING TO SCORE was published by Westside Books under the pseudonym J.E. MacLeod.

Janet Gurtler lives in Calgary, Canada, deliciously close to the Canadian Rockies with her husband, son and an untrained dog named Meeko. Janet does not live in an Igloo or play hockey, but she does love maple syrup and says “eh” a lot.

BOOKS

I'm Not Her
Sourcebooks Fire, May 2011

If I Tell
Sourcebooks Fire, Fall 2011

Waiting to Score
Westside Books, 2009

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