Biography of Janet Evanovich  
After graduation from high school, Evanovich spent four years in the Douglass College art department, learning to transfer cerebral excitement to primed canvas.

Somewhere down the line Evanovich started writing stories. Evanovich sent her stories out to editors and agents and collected rejection letters in a big cardboard box. When the box was full, she burned the whole box and felt very disappointed. Then later she went to work for a temp agency.

Four months into her stellar secretarial career, Evanovich got a call from an editor offering to buy her last mailed (and heretofore forgotten) manuscript. It was a romance written for the now defunct Second Chance at Love line, and she was paid only $2,000.

With her head reeling from all this money, Evanovich plunged into writing romance novels full time. She wrote series romance for the next five years, mostly for Bantam Loveswept. It was a rewarding experience, but after twelve romance novels, Evanovich ran out of ideas and finally decided to move into the mystery genre.

Evanovich spent two years retooling --drinking beer with law enforcement types, learning to shoot, practicing cussing. At the end of those years she created Stephanie Plum, the main character of her detective series.

When ONE FOR THE MONEY came out hard cover, reviewers said some nice things about her writing and lots of people went out to buy the book. TWO FOR THE DOUGH sold even more copies a year later, and now THREE TO GET DEADLY is Evanovich’s latest book.