I always knew, at least on some level that I was to be an author. I printed my name inside the front cover of every Little Golden Book in our house. Those same storybooks now are part of my home library. Then, again obvious when I would write and hand my work to anyone to read, just to watch them read, seeing their face change, knowing where they were and that what I had written could alter their expression. Connection. Never spent a single second or stamp sending in any of my words to publishing houses or writing contests. That wasn't the dream back then. Being censored or edited or rejected was not part of the plan. Researching traditional marketing pathways I soon found myself discontent with modern ways. I was searching for my voice. I love authors who have their own. There was something pioneering, adventurous, even daring about writing words and finding a path for words to travel. So here I am. Writing and finding that pathway. My dream now? That someone two hundred years from now will find a copy of my work and it will still hold value.

Writing Dear Daisy and finding the pathway; self publishing and Rising Sparrow Press.

Anyone knowing the author would tell you her hobbies include storytelling, traveling and recording footsteps, and that she is most at home under a cherry or apple tree. Jane calls the Lake Ontario shoreline of Upstate New York home.

Storytellersandwriters
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Lake Ontario Shoreline
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Upcoming Titles
Jane Marla VerDow is currently working on a children's series with her four-legged and fur friends. (Title has not been announced) Rising Sparrow - Author's account of pathway creating Rising Sparrow Press and self-publishing. (Not yet released)

Lake Ontario Shoreline
word and picture images of life and times recorded by a storyteller living on the southern shore of Lake Ontario.