Whether the story is fiction or non-fiction, J.Q. Rose is “focused on story.” She offers readers chills, giggles and quirky characters woven within the pages of her mystery novels. Using her storytelling skills, she provides entertainment and information with articles featured in books, magazines, newspapers and online magazines.
Janet taught elementary school for several years and never lost the love for teaching passed down through her grandmother and mother. She satisfies that aspect of her character by presenting workshops on Life Storytelling.
Janet used the lessons she taught to pen her memoir, Arranging a Dream: A Memoir.
When not reading or writing, blogging, photography, Pegs and Jokers board games and travel are the things that keep her out of trouble. She and her husband relish times spent with their two daughters, two sons-in-law, four grandsons, one granddaughter, two grand dogs, four grand cats, but not so much with her great-grand bearded dragon.
Arranging a Dream: A Memoir Back of the Book
In 1975, budding entrepreneurs Ted and Janet purchase a floral shop and greenhouses where they plan to grow their dream. Leaving friends and family behind in Illinois and losing the security of two paychecks, they transplant themselves, their one-year-old daughter and all their belongings to Fremont, Michigan, where they know no one.
Will the retiring business owners nurture Ted and Janet as they struggle to develop a blooming business, or will they desert the inexperienced young couple to wither and die in their new environment?
Most of all, can Ted and Janet grow together as they cultivate a loving marriage, juggle parenting with work and root a thriving business?
Follow this couple’s inspiring story, filled with the joy and triumphs and the obstacles and failures experienced as they travel along the turbulent path of turning dreams into reality.”