Betrothal and Betrayal: Longlisted for the Young Quills Prize 2024

About Janet McGiffin

Janet McGiffin divides her time between her apartment in Manhattan her family in Washington State and her friends in Athens Greece. She was born in Fairfield Iowa into a newspaper family and learned to write copy as a teenager by writing obituaries for the Ellensburg Daily Record in Washington state. After university she worked for the Milwaukee Health Department where she gained first-hand knowledge for her best-selling mystery series published by Fawcett Press NY featuring Doctor Maxine St. Clair an ER doctor in an inner-city hospital. She worked as a press officer for the Washington state senate then moved to Athens Greece where she wrote grant proposals for small non-profit womens organizations in Mediterranean countries. She also wrote a humor column for the Athens News newspaper with field archaeologist Adrian Vrettos wrote two English language easy readers for Cambridge University Press UK and a series of hiking articles for greecetravel.com. She researched her Byzantine-era Empress Irini Series through extensive travel in Greece followed by six months of research at the Bodleian libraries in Oxford England. She enjoys hiking in Greece England Wales and Scotland.