Janice Spina aka J.E. Spina is an award-winning author with twenty-one published books ranging from infants to adults and in multi-genres. She has been writing since the age of nine. Janice always dreamed of being an author but did not realize this dream until after she retired from an administrative secretarial position in a public school system in Massachusetts. In 2013 she published two children's books, followed by three more children's books and one novel in 2014, two children's books, and two middle-grade/preteen detective books 1 & 2 in 2015 and one novel, a children's book, and Book 3 and 4 of her MG/PT series in 2016 and a short story collection, children's book and a MG/PT detective series book 5 in 2017, and two children's books and the sequel to her first novel were published in 2018 along with this girls' Abby & Holly series. Her husband, John, illustrator and cover creator, is working on illustrations for Janice's first fairy tale which she hopes to publish later in 2018. A YA fantasy needs to be edited and will be published as a series in 2019 and beyond. Janice submitted an article to an anthology collection by author Kristina Stanley and published a short story in The Writers Newsletter. Janice's books have won a total of eleven book awards - seven Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, one Mom's Choice Awards, two Reader's Favorite Book Awards an Honorable Mention and a Silver Medal, and a Silver Medal from Authorsdb Cover Contest, and her first novel, Hunting Mariah was a finalist in Authorsdb First Lines Contest in 2018. Her goal is to write for all ages and encourage children to read which will cultivate a love of reading and carry them throughout their lives. Janice's motto is Reading Can Give You Wings to Fly! Soar with Jemsbooks.com! Her logo is Jemsbooks - Books for all ages. Her husband, John, illustrates her children's books and creates the covers for all her books. Janice plans to write more children's books, middle-grade, young adult fantasy and novels over the next few years. As the author says, "There is always another story running around in my head just waiting to be written down." Janice's hobbies are crocheting, exercising (walking, hula hooping to keep in shape), and reading, reviewing books, blogging, traveling, going out to the movies and dinner with her husband, and spending time with her five grandchildren who are her inspiration to write.