So she filled a box with rejection letters, took it to the curb, and set it on fire. In one interview, she poignantly remarks that they couldn’t afford to buy oranges. The shingles from my roof were on the front yard, and we had no hope of getting a new roof. We had two kids who had gone through two very expensive post-secondary schools. We were living in this little brick house in northern Virginia. She wrote and submitted for ten years, hitting rejection at every turn.Īnd like any parents trying to give their children the best life possible, Janet and Pete struggled. Janet settled into the life of a stay-at-home mom.īut while the kids were in grade school, she discovered a new artistic impulse - writing. They soon had a son and daughter, Peter and Alexandra. Janet Evanovich didn’t start out as a writer. Her first calling was art, but the idea of being a ’60s free spirit appealed more than the work:Īfter high school, I spent four years in the Douglass College art department, honing my ability to wear torn Levis…Painting beat the heck out of digging holes in lawns, but it never felt exactly right.Īfter graduating, she married her high school sweetheart, Pete Evanovich, who was completing his doctorate in Mathematics from Rutgers University. I’ll tell you what I thought of it later. So I felt duty-bound to read One For The Money (recently made into a movie with Katherine Heigl) before writing this post. She began the Stephanie Plum series at age 51. Janet published her first novel at age 44 after ten years of rejection. Reviews like that made me avoid her books until I learned she was a late bloomer. The New York Times calls the series “the mystery-novel equivalent of comfort food.” It’s not a compliment. They’re titled One For The Money, Two For The Dough, Three To Get Deadly, etc. Janet’s wealth comes from a series of numbered, comedic mysteries starring gutsy bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. “The mystery-novel equivalent of comfort food.” So I’m embarrassed to admit I was only vaguely familiar with her novels. To date she’s written more than 45 books and sold more than 75 million. Hollywood adapted one of her novels to the big screen. 79 on Forbes’ list of The World’s Most Powerful Celebrities, with earnings estimated at $33 million. In 2012, author Janet Evanovich ranked No.
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