I’ve started a new feature on my blog as another way to support my fellow authors. Colleen’s Author Interviews will introduce you to authors from around the world. You can check out their books and visit their Amazon Author Pages to see if you find anything that tweaks your reading fancy!

This is also a way for my readers to get to know some different authors. You never know what secrets I might be able to coax out of them! Enjoy!

My first author interview is with Jan Spina. You might know her as a children’s author but recently she has stepped into the adult mystery writing genre. Please meet, Jan Spina!

Thank you, Colleen, for having me here today on your lovely blog.

Hi, Jan. Thanks for stopping by. Please tell us something about yourself.

I have been writing since the age of nine in the form of poetry. In my twenties, I moved to stories for children and wrote my first novels in 2009. When I was a young child I dreamt of either being an author or a singer.

I realized that singing was not in my future but writing was. I became an author at the age of 65 in 2013 after I retired a few years before from a position as an administrative secretary in a school system in Massachusetts.