Ensconced in corporate America for twenty years, Jan launched her own communications consulting business before finally divorcing herself from the management frenzy completely. She jump-started her writing career as a by-lined co-author on a windfall book project for Time-Life and the Nature Company.

Jan has since written magazine and newspaper articles on a variety of subjects but favors history and nature. Whenever possible, and not overruled by her family, she loves to trip off with her husband to practically inaccessible places around the world hoping to encounter exotic animals and unspoiled cultures.