Janice is an author and artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes the Glass Bead Mystery Series, which are humorous craft-oriented mystery novels set in Seattle.  She is also an award-winning glass artist who has been creating handmade glass beads, jewelry, and sand cast glass sculptures 

since 1992.

The Glass Bead Mystery Series includes High Strung, A Bead in the Hand, Be Still My Beading Heart, Off the Beadin' Path, and To Bead or Not to Bead. These humorous murder mysteries feature glass beadmaker Jax O'Connell,  a cast of quirky characters, fun beading details, a catnip-addicted cat, and a little bit of  romance.

Janice creates lampworked glass beads using a torch and colorful glass from Italy. She designs and assembles jewelry from her handmade beads. These pieces are one-of-kind wearable glass art.  Janice also makes large sand-casted glass sculptures that have a similar style to her smaller works.