Today, I welcome Janet Lane-Walters to Five on Friday where she answers five questions to reveal more about her personality. Interesting that she not only believes in horoscopes, but once raised money for a trip to Ireland by casting them!

The Leo Aquarius Connection

The nurses stare as he exits the elevator on the Pediatric Unit. “Enter the handsome doctor.” Those are Doctor Caleb Winstone’s words as he steps off the elevator. Though he’s embarrassed, this Leo doctor rolls with the punches.

He’s returned home to join an older doctor in the practice. Before long he learns the new nurse manager of the unit is a woman he knows. Of all the women in the world, she is the last one he wants to see. How can he manage to work daily with her? Before the day ends, he discovers his mother has decided who he should marry and the woman is quite willing. Not for him.

Suzanna Rollins is an Aquarian and now the guardian of her half-brother who was badly injured in a car accident. She takes the position as nurse manager of the Pediatric unit for several reasons. One is the move from the city re-unites her with college friends, the Grantley Gang. The other is for the excellent Rehab Center. On the day of her arrival, she encounters Caleb. What is he doing here and why? Can she work with the man she fell in and out of love with the night he offered her less than marriage?

Caleb’s interest in helping her half-brother gives them more together time than they imagined.

Five on Friday

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Maybe I’m strange but I love where I’m living, and years ago, when I first visited this Hudson River valley village, I said, “I have to live here.” Took a year, and my husband finding a job in the area before my dream came true. The village has been good for my family, allowing a son to pursue art in high school, something denied him where we lived before, and my youngest daughter, an adopted biracial child to stop being the token black. It’s  also where I met writers who inspired me to develop my career. So there’s no other place in the world I’d rather live.

Ann: I’m just like you, Janet. I’m happy with where I live.

What are the top three things on your bucket list? And why?
Now, here comes the bit. I really don’t have a bucket list. The reason is there are some places I would like to go and things to do but aren’t possible in my life. I would love to take a trip to Mars. I’ve been fascinated by the red planet for years and am watching the things the Rover has discovered.
I would love to find a way to end the thought of wars forever and to have people learn to tolerate each other and their beliefs without trying to force everyone to see things their way.
I would love to find a way to cure all ills like cancer and starvation.
As you can see these are impossible for a bucket list but they’re mine.

Ann: Again, we have something in common. I also don’t have a bucket  list.

Name the last three books you’ve read.
I have recently read The Beast Master’s Circus by Andre Norton, Malevolent IA Kendra Sparks Novel Book 2) by S. Peters Davis and The Seventh Plague: A Sigma Force Novel by James Rollins.

Ann: Those all sound interesting.

Do you read horoscopes?
Not only do I read horoscopes but at one point in my life a friend and I cast horoscopes and earned enough to take a trip to Ireland. She did the math part and I did the interpretation. I also use Astrology when casting my characters. I use the Sun Sign, the Moon Sign and the Ascendant to give me a picture of their nature, their emotional reaction and the face they show the world.

Ann: I don’t read horoscopes on a regular basis, but find them interesting when I do.

Name three people who influenced your life.
The first was my grandfather John Kirkland. He taught me to read when I was three years old and since then reading has been important in my life. The Second was my father Norman Lane who told me to shoot for the stars but if I hit the fence post, I had tried. He shared my books and writing with everyone he met. The third was Jane Toombs. She was a fellow member of our local RWA chapter. When I returned to writing after a ten-year exodus to work as a nurse, she vetted my book and sold the idea to her editor. We were friends until her death and collaborated on two books. The first Moon Pool, a series of novellas set in the same area and tied to a resort. The second is Words Perfect: Becoming Your Own Critique Partner.

Ann: I think family and friends influence most of us. We’re lucky to have their support. Sounds like you did.

Award Winning Janet lane Walters has been a published author since 1968 beginning with short stories and moving into novels when an editor told her a short story sounded like a synopsis for a novel. In the 1970s and 1980s she published 4 sweet nurse romance novels. Then she returned to school to earn a BS in Nursing and a BA in English. Returning to work as a nurse to help put four children through college she put her writing career on hold. In 1993 she retired from nursing and began writing again. A new nurse romance followed in print. Then she discovered electronic publishing and since 1998 has been electronically published.

Janet calls herself an eclectic writer since she moved from genre to genre. There are mysteries featuring Katherine Miller a former nurse who seems to stumble over bodies wherever she goes. Using Janet’s interest in Astrology, she has several series that use Astrology as a premise for the stories. Once, she earned enough money to travel to Ireland by casting charts for people. She has many books in the romance genre, some of them are contemporary and are nurse romance, others fall into the fantasy or paranormal forms of romance. Interested in reincarnation, she has used this as a jumping point for at least two novels. Two of her novels deal with alternate worlds using a love affair with Ancient Egypt.

Under her other name J.L. Walters she has written a YA fantasy series called Affinities. She has also written a non-fiction book with co-author Jane Toombs that won the EPIC Award in 2003 for best Non-fiction. During her career she has received other awards and has a number of great reviews.

Besides her four adult children, she has seven grandchildren. Five of them are the models for the YA series. The other two arrived too late to play a large role in the series. Four of her grandchildren are bi-racial and 3 are Chinese so the eclectic even invades her family. She has been married to the same man for more than 50 years. He’s a psychiatrist who refuses to cure her obsession for writing.

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