Authors whose first name starts with J, page 4 of 13

Jamie McGuire is an American novelist working in romance and new adult fiction. Her 30 catalogued books span 2010 to 2026, from Providence (2010) to Beyond Redemption (2026), and Beautiful Disaster brought her a wide readership. The Maddox Brothers, Happenstance, Crash and Burn, Red Hill and Sovereign Saga series make up most of that run, with several titles self-published. Contemporary relationships, college students, firefighters, weddings and marriage recur across the books. McGuire was born in 1978 and comes from Oklahoma.

Jamie Oliver

40 books• 1 series

Jamie Oliver is an English chef and restaurateur whose 40 catalogued books are mostly cookbooks. The Naked Chef (1999) accompanied the BBC Two series of the same name that ran to 2001, and Jamie's Kitchen, Jamie's Dinners and Jamie's Italy extend a run reaching Eat Yourself Healthy (2025). Oliver started the Feed Me Better campaign in 2005 to put healthier food into schools, and the government later backed it; the first Jamie's Italian restaurant opened in 2008. Oliver has also written the children's series Billy and the Giant Adventure.

Irene Kelly, a California journalist, carries Jan Burke's mystery series, which opens with Goodnight, Irene (1993). Burke has won the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Agatha Award for Best Short Story, the Macavity Award and the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award. Serial murder, police work and women detectives fill the subject tags. The catalogue holds 23 titles and ends with Tried (2014).

The Mitford novels are the core of Jan Karon's work: New York Times bestsellers set in the fictional village of Mitford and featuring Father Timothy Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest. Karon, an American novelist born March 14, 1937, writes for adults and young readers. My Beloved, the most recent Mitford novel, came out in October 2025. Karon was named a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, Illinois, and in May 2000 received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Nashotah House, a seminary in Wisconsin. The catalogue records 30 books from Miss Fannie's Hat (1993) onward, with At Home in Mitford (1994) as the second.

Jan Moran's catalogue opens with Fabulous Fragrances (1994), a guide to prestige perfumes, and runs to 41 titles and Seabreeze Garden, with Moonlight Cove dated 2027. Summer Beach, Love California and Crown Island are the series. Perfumery, fashion designers, businesswomen, family secrets and the Second World War fill the subject tags, and romance and suspense describe the fiction.

Rumble on the Bayou (2006) is the first of 64 Jana DeLeon books in the catalogue, which reaches Marsh Mystics (2026). DeLeon's series include Miss Fortune Mystery, Ghost-in-Law, Shaye Archer, Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance, Tempest Island and Marina at Midlife. Subjects cover romantic suspense, humorous mystery, murder, missing persons, private investigators, plantations and New Orleans. Early titles include Trouble in Mudbug (2009), Bayou Bodyguard (2011) and Louisiana Longshot (2012).

Jane A. Adams is a British writer of psychological thrillers and crime novels, born in Leicester in 1960 and the author of more than thirty of them. The Greenway (1995) was nominated for a John Creasey Award and took an Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. 49 catalogued titles reach Murder At The Folly (2025), across the Naomi Blake, Rina Martin, Henry Johnstone, Detective Mike Croft, Detective Rozlyn Priest, Ray Flowers and Merrow & Clarke series. Adams holds a sociology degree, teaches at De Montfort University and is a Royal Literary Fund fellow.

Jane Ashford is the pen name of Nancy Jane LeCompte, born in Eaton, Ohio in 1948, who also publishes as Jane LeCompte. Ashford writes Regency and traditional historical romance, nobility, husband and wife, forced marriage, social life and customs, and contemporary romance alongside it. Reading Georgette Heyer at school pointed Ashford toward Regency England and then toward a degree in English literature. The catalogue runs to 44 books, from Bluestocking and Gwendeline (1980) to The Duke Has Done It Again (2024), with Duke's Sons, Duke's Estates and Way to a Lord's Heart as the series.

Jane Austen

22 books• 7 series

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 to 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose reputation rests on six novels. The novels examine the English landed gentry of the late 18th century, and Austen's plots turn on how far women depended on marriage for social position and financial security. Critics and scholars credit Austen's wit, irony, realism and social commentary, and place the novels in the shift from the novel of sensibility toward 19th-century realism. The catalogue lists 22 titles, from the juvenilia of 1787, such as Love and Freindship, through Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Mansfield Park (1814).

Jane Blythe has 101 books catalogued from A Secret to the Grave (2012) to Flawed Revenge (2026). Series include Count to Ten, Detective Parker Bell, Broken Gems, Saving SEALs, River's End Rescues, Christmas Romantic Suspense and several Prey Security team lines, among them Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Artemis. Dead or Alive (2014), Forgotten (2015), Little Girl Lost (2015) and Christmas Hostage (2017) are among the earlier titles.

Jane Casey is an Irish-born crime novelist, born in Dublin in 1977 and raised in Castleknock. Casey read English at Jesus College, Oxford, and edited children's books before publishing fiction. Two 2010 titles open the catalogue: The Missing, shortlisted for the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award, and The Burning. Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan leads the main series, and Jess Tennant is a second. The catalogue lists 23 books up to The Secret Room (2025), with Everything She Didn't Say due in 2027.

Jane Corry writes psychological suspense. Her 12 catalogued books open with My Husband's Wife (2016) and reach My Sister's Secret (2026), taking in Blood Sisters (2017), The Dead Ex (2018), I Made a Mistake (2020) and Coming To Find You (2023). Recurring subjects include marriage, secrecy, revenge, prisons, missing persons and women lawyers.

Jane E. James writes domestic psychological thrillers, and the titles name the relationship at issue: Her Second Husband (2023), Not My Child (2023), The Son-in-Law (2023), The Godmother (2024) and The Grandmother (2024). The Crying Boy (2017) opens a catalogue of 12 books running to 2026, with The Butcher's Daughter (2019), The Long Weekend (2019), Looking For Lucy (2021) and Before Us (2025) between. No series groups the books; each stands on its own.

Jane Fallon is an English author and television producer. Her 14 catalogued novels run from Getting Rid Of Matthew (2007) to Welcome to the Neighbourhood (2026), taking in Got You Back (2008), Foursome (2010), Skeletons (2014), My Sweet Revenge (2017), Faking Friends (2018) and Queen Bee (2020). Subjects cover marriage, adultery, revenge, friendship and family secrets, handled with humour.

Jane Feather, born Jane Robotham in Cairo, Egypt, in 1945, is a British–American writer of historical romance with more than ten million books in print and New York Times bestseller status. In 1984 Feather wrote five contemporary romances under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop. The catalogue lists 52 books from 1984 to 2021, including Love's Charade (1986), Smuggler's Lady (1986), Reckless Seduction (1987), Chase the Dawn (1988) and Venus (1988), and ends with Ravish Me with Rubies (2021). Series include Charm Bracelet, Matchmaker Duncan Sisters, Cavendish Square, Blackwater Brides and London Jewels Trilogy, and England, aristocracy and inheritance appear in the subjects.

Jane Gardam wrote for children and for adults and worked as a literary critic, with reviews in The Spectator and The Telegraph and writing for BBC Radio. Gardam took the Whitbread Award twice, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005 and appointed OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours. Thirty-five books are catalogued between A Few Fair Days (1971) and The Stories of Jane Gardam (2014), with Old Filth the one series listed. England, family life, adolescence and girls recur as subjects.

Jane Green is an English novelist, born in 1968, who lives in the United States. By 2014 Green's books had sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into 31 languages, and Green has been called one of the first chick lit writers. The catalogue lists 32 books from Straight Talking (1997) and Jemima J (1998) to The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke (2026). Subjects include single women, female friendship, dating, family secrets and London.

Jane Haddam was the pen name of Orania Papazoglou, an American mystery writer who lived from 1951 to 2019. Gregor Demarkian, a private investigator of Armenian American background working in Philadelphia, heads her longest series. Patience McKenna and Georgia Xenakis head two more, and some early titles carry the Papazoglou name. The catalogue holds 39 books published between 1984 and 2020, from Sweet, Savage Death (1984) to One of Our Own (2020), which appeared after her death.

Jane Hamilton

8 books

Jane Hamilton is an American novelist, born in 1957, with eight books catalogued. The Book of Ruth (1988) opens the run and The Phoebe Variations (2025) is the most recent, with A Map of the World (1992), The Short History of a Prince (1998), Disobedience (2000), When Madeline Was Young (2006), Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009) and The Excellent Lombards (2016) between them. Family life, mothers and daughters, small-town Wisconsin and dairy farms are the recurring subjects.

Jane Harper

6 books• 2 series

Jane Harper writes crime fiction about homicide investigations in remote country, where secrecy holds a community together. Federal agent Aaron Falk recurs across the work. Six catalogued books run from The Dry (2016) through Force of Nature (2017), The Lost Man (2018), The Survivors (2020) and Exiles (2023) to Last One Out (2026). Harper also publishes standalone novels, and remains actively writing.

Jane Healey is a novelist with three catalogued books, all of them standalone. The Animals at Lockwood Manor (2020) came first, followed by The Ophelia Girls (2021) and Crescendo (2026). The novels run to roughly 304 pages each, and Healey remains in publication.

Jane Henry is a USA Today bestselling romance author. Henry's books are character-driven and pair dominant anti-hero alpha males with strong heroines. The catalogue lists 92 books from 2016 to 2026, beginning with A Thousand Yesses, Begin Again and Claimed on the Frontier in 2016, and Wicked Scars (2026) is the latest. Series include Bratva Kings, Boston Doms, NYC Doms, Dangerous Doms, Ruthless Doms, Wicked Vows, Montavio Brotherhood and McCarthy Family Legacy. Erotic romance, BDSM, romantic suspense, enemies to lovers and second chances appear in the subject tags.

Jane Johnson

19 books• 4 series

Jane Johnson, born in 1960, is an English fiction editor and a writer of books for adults and children. Two pseudonyms appear besides the real name: Gabriel King, shared with M. John Harrison, and Jude Fisher. The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion (2001) carries the Jude Fisher name. The 19 catalogued books run from The Wild Road (1997) to Secrets of the Bees (2025), with Eidolon Chronicles, Tag, the Cat, Knot Garden and Moroccan among the series.

Antiques appraiser Josie Prescott is the detective Jane K. Cleland is known for. The Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries are traditional mysteries set in New Hampshire, beginning with Consigned to Death in 2006 and continuing through Deadly Appraisal (2007), Antiques to Die For (2008) and a strand of short stories and novellas. The American author also writes non-fiction on the craft of writing, and earlier titles handled business communication, among them How to Create High-Impact Newsletters in 1996. Cleland has won and been nominated for numerous awards, the Josie Prescott series has been optioned for film and television, and the catalogue reaches Beat the Bots in 2025.

Women pioneers on the American frontier are Jane Kirkpatrick's subject, written as Christian historical fiction and often set in Oregon. Kinship and Courage, Tender Ties, Change and Cherish, Portraits of the Heart and Women of Cannon Beach are among her series, with non-fiction alongside. Sixty-five catalogued books run from Homestead (1991) to With the Enduring Tides in 2026.

Jane L. Rosen writes contemporary fiction about women in New York. Seven catalogued books run from The Thread (2013) to Songs of Summer (2025), taking in Nine Women, One Dress - also published as The Dress - along with Eliza Starts a Rumor (2020), A Shoe Story (2022), On Fire Island (2023) and Seven Summer Weekends (2024). Single women, relationships and New York City supply the material.

Jane Langton (1922–2018) wrote children's literature and mystery novels, and illustrated her own books. Two sequences carry most of the work: the Homer Kelly mysteries, built on a recurring detective of that name, and the Hall Family Chronicles, which run to magic and fairy tale. Thirty-four books are catalogued, from The Majesty of Grace (1961) to The Dragon Tree (2008), with Massachusetts and Cambridge among the settings, at a median length of 252 pages.

Jane Lindskold writes fantasy and science fiction, in novels and short stories. Her 34 catalogued books run from Chronomaster (1989) to House of Rough Diamonds (2023), at a median of 368 pages, densest in the 2000s. Her series include the Firekeeper Saga, recorded under its first title Through Wolf's Eyes, along with Athanor, Breaking the Wall, Over Where, Artemis Awakening and Captain Ah-Lee. Wolves, feral children, magic and life on other planets run through the subject index. Lindskold is American, born in 1962, and wrote a 1993 book about Roger Zelazny.

Jane Linfoot writes romance set in Cornwall. The Little Wedding Shop by the Sea is the main series, opening in 2016 and adding Christmas at the Little Wedding Shop, Christmas Promises at the Little Wedding Shop and Summer at the Little Wedding Shop; The Little Cornish Kitchen (2018) starts a second. Weddings, bridal shops and Christmas supply much of the material. Eighteen books are catalogued between 2000 and 2025, from How to Win a Guy in 10 Dates to The Cosy Croissant Café.

Jane Porter's 74 catalogued books span 2001 to 2026, opening with Christos's Promise (2001) and reaching A Soldier's Promise (2026). Subjects place the work in contemporary romance and romantic suspense, with arranged marriage, princesses, kings and rulers, and single mothers among the listed themes. Series include Wyatt Brothers of Montana, Taming of the Sheenans, Galvan Brides, Desert Kings, Brennan Sisters, Bellevue Wives and Disgraced Copelands. Jane Porter is still publishing.

Jane Roberts (1929-1984) was an American author and poet who described herself as a psychic and spirit medium channelling a personality named Seth. The resulting Seth Material made Roberts a leading figure in writing on paranormal phenomena, through The Seth Material (1970), Seth Speaks (1972) and The Nature of Personal Reality (1974). Roberts also wrote fiction, including the Oversoul Seven novels. Reincarnation, parapsychology and the nature of reality run through 47 catalogued titles.

Jane Shemilt writes psychological suspense about families under pressure: missing persons, runaway children, mothers and daughters. Seven catalogued books run from The Daughter in 2014 to The Vacation House, also published as All Her Secrets, in 2023, taking in The Drowning Lesson in 2015, The Playground in 2019, Little Friends in 2020 and The Patient in 2022. Africa appears among the settings, and nothing new has been recorded since 2023.

Jane Smiley

40 books• 6 series

Jane Smiley, born September 26, 1949, is an American novelist and the winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Thousand Acres (1991). The catalogue holds 40 Smiley books from Barn Blind (1980) to Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (2026). The Greenlanders (1988), Moo (1995) and The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998) are among the titles. Series include Horses Of Oak Valley Ranch, Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga and Ellen and Ned. Subjects include horses, ranch life and rural families.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

8 books• 1 series

Jane Stanton Hitchcock was an American author, playwright and screenwriter who lived from 1946 to 2025. Grace (1982) opens a catalogue of 8 books, and the mysteries made the name: Trick of the Eye (1992), The Witches' Hammer (1994), One Dangerous Lady (1990), Social Crimes (2002), Mortal Friends (2009) and Bluff (2019), which took the 2019 Hammett Prize. Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love. New York socialites, rich people and their manners supply the settings.

Jane Steen writes historical fiction with romance and suspense in it. The House of Closed Doors (2012) opens her first series and takes unmarried motherhood as its subject; the Scott-De Quincy Mysteries follow, from Lady Helena Investigates (2018) to Lady Ambition's Dilemma (2024). Nine catalogued books span the two series, and Steen is listed as ongoing.

Jane Thornley has 24 books catalogued across six series: the Agency of the Ancient Lost & Found, Crime by Design, None of the Above, Time Shadows, the Cosmati Chronicles and the Timewalker Chronicles. Frozen Angel (2013) opens the run, and Rogue Wave (2014), The Warp in the Weave (2015), Beautiful Survivor (2016), The Plunge (2018) and Consider Me Gone (2020) follow it. Sigrid's Hoard (2025) is the most recent title.

Jane Thynne writes historical espionage. The British novelist, journalist and broadcaster has 14 books catalogued from Patrimony (1997) to The Judgement of Stars (2025). Clara Vine is her main series, Black Roses (2013), The Winter Garden (2014), A War of Flowers (2015) and Faith and Beauty (2015), several of them retitled for other markets, and Rose Ransom is the second. Actresses, intelligence officers, murder and wartime Germany supply the material.

Jane Willan's catalogue holds 7 books, from Jump Start This Church! (2014) to The Beekeeper's Last Confession and Widow's Walk (both 2025). Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery is the series listed, and subjects include abbeys, nuns, murder, investigation, Wales and cheese. The Hour of Death and The Shadow of Death appeared in 2018, Abide With Me in 2020 and The Christmas Camel Caper in 2024.

Jane Yolen

237 books• 22 series

Jane Yolen (Jane Hyatt Yolen, February 11, 1939 to June 11, 2026) was an American author of fantasy, science fiction and children's books. The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella, is the best-known Yolen work, and Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite are among the others. The short works Sister Emily's Lightship and Lost Girls both won Nebula Awards. The catalogue counts 237 books from The Witch Who Wasn't (1964) to Daddy Plays a Mean Guitar (2026). Series include Commander Toad, How Do Dinosaurs...?, Pit Dragons, the Young Merlin Trilogy, Books of the Great Alta and Tartan Magic. Yolen worked as an editor, collaborated most often with Adam Stemple, and in 2012 became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.

Janelle Brown, born September 12, 1973, is an American novelist and former technology and culture journalist. Brown worked at Wired from 1995 to 1998, helping launch Wired News, then wrote for Salon.com from 1998 to 2002, and co-founded the early online feminist zine Maxi. Five novels have made the New York Times bestseller list. The 7 catalogued books run from All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (2008) to What Kind of Paradise (2025), and Pretty Things (2020) is being adapted for television.

Savage Ecstasy, Defiant Ecstasy and Forbidden Ecstasy all appeared in 1982, the first year in Janelle Taylor's catalogue. Taylor is an American author of historical romance, born June 28, 1944, in Athens, Georgia. Brazen Ecstasy and Tender Ecstasy followed in 1983, and Golden Torment and Valley of Fire in 1984. Series include Gray Eagle, Western Wind, Lakota Skies, Sedgwick Sisters, Southern Historical, Saar and Viking Fantasy. Subject headings name Indians of North America, the American West, mixed descent and romantic suspense, and the catalogue counts 58 books in all.

Janet Bolin is the author of the Threadville Mystery series. Catalogue subjects include embroidery, sewing machines and Pennsylvania. The catalogue lists 9 books, starting with Dire Threads (2011), Threaded for Trouble (2012), Thread and Buried (2013), Night of the Living Thread (2014) and Seven Threadly Sins (2015). Blame the Beignets and Double Grudge Donuts followed in 2024, Sour Crime Donuts in 2025 and Killer Donuts in 2026. Subjects also include women sleuths, murder and missing persons.

Janet Chapman wrote paranormal and contemporary romance set in Maine, with Scots and time travel in the mix. Charming the Highlander (2003) opens the Pine Creek Highlanders series, followed by Loving the Highlander and Wedding the Highlander in the same year. Spellbound Falls, Midnight Bay, Puffin Harbor and the Logger books follow. Twenty-six titles are catalogued, the last of them Call It Magic in 2020.

Janet Dailey

161 books• 16 series

Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (1944-2013) was an American author of romance novels, translated into nineteen languages and sold in the hundreds of millions of copies. The Dailey catalogue holds 161 books opening with No Quarter Asked (1974), followed by state-titled entries including Savage Land: Texas (1974), Darling Jenny: Wyoming (1975) and Dangerous Masquerade: Alabama (1976). Subjects cover contemporary and historical romance, western romance, ranch life, love stories, Christmas stories and the Calder family. Series listed include the Calder Saga, New Americana, Tylers of Texas, Bannon Brothers and Christmas Tree Ranch. The listing also carries titles dated after 2013, running to Kill for a Million (2026).

Janet Evanovich

79 books• 13 series

Stephanie Plum, a bail bond agent turned bounty hunter, is the recurring lead of Janet Evanovich's longest series. Evanovich writes humorous mystery and romance, and the catalogue holds 79 books from Full House (1981) to Split Second in 2026. Other recurring lines include Kate O'Hare & Nicolas Fox, Lizzy & Diesel, Knight and Moon, Alexandra Barnaby and the Culhane Family.

Kelly Jackson is the amateur sleuth in Janet Finsilver's cozy mysteries, set in California. Each of the 6 books opens its title with the same word: Murder at Redwood Cove (2015), Murder at the Mansion (2016), Murder at the Fortune Teller's Table (2017), Murder at the Mushroom Festival (2018), Murder at the Marina (2019) and Murder in the Wine Country (2020). Nothing has followed since 2020.

Janet Fitch

5 books• 1 series

Janet Fitch is an American novelist, born in Los Angeles in 1955 and a graduate of Reed College, where she first intended to become a historian. White Oleander (1999) is the best known novel and reached the screen in 2002. Five books are catalogued: Kicks (1995), White Oleander, Paint it Black (2006), The Revolution of Marina M. (2017) and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral (2019). Foster children, mothers and daughters, Los Angeles and drug abuse recur as subjects.

Janet Neel wrote detective fiction, 11 books of it catalogued between 1988 and 2002. The Wilson & McLeish series carries most of the run, from Death's Bright Angel (1988) through Death on Site (1989), Death of a Partner (1991), Death Among the Dons (1993) and A Timely Death (1996) to O Gentle Death (2000); two titles, The Highest Bidder (1992) and Children of a Harsh Winter (1994), appeared as Janet Cohen. Many of the books carry two titles. Lawyers and legal stories supply the material, and Ticket to Ride (2002) closes the catalogue.

Janet Skeslien Charles writes fiction set between Eastern Europe, France and the United States. Moonlight in Odessa (2009) opens the catalogue, with a Ukrainian dating agency for its material. The Paris Library (2020) and Miss Morgan's Book Brigade, also published as The Librarians of Rue de Picardie (2024), turn to librarians in wartime France. Charles also writes the Wynd Brothers series. Five titles are catalogued in all, running to Mistress of Wyndview (2026).

Janette Oke, born Janette Steeves on 18 February 1935, is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction, often set in pioneer times with women as the lead characters. Bethany House published Love Comes Softly, the first Oke novel, in 1979. When Calls the Heart (1983) opened the Canadian West series and became the basis for a television series with the same title. The catalogue holds 79 Oke books, with The Pharisee's Wife (2025) the newest. Series include Love Comes Softly, Prairie Legacy, Women of the West, Song of Acadia and Janette Oke's Animal Friends. Subjects include women pioneers, Canada and Christian fiction.

Janette Rallison

40 books• 8 series

Janette Rallison, born 1 April 1966, is an American writer known mainly for light romance novels aimed at young adults. Rallison also uses two pen names: C. J. Hill for young adult science fiction and fantasy, and Sierra St. James for romantic novels for adults. The catalogue holds 40 books from Blue Eyes and Other Teenage Hazards (1996) to We Are Never Getting Together (2026), with Trial of the Heart (1999) among the Sierra St. James titles. My Fair Godmother, Slayers, Erasing Time and Pullman High are listed series.

Janice Cantore writes Christian police fiction. Policewomen, cold cases and missing persons run through the subjects, and the work divides into Line of Duty, Pacific Coast Justice, Cold Case Justice and the Brinna Caruso books. Sixteen catalogued titles run from Critical Pursuit (2007) to Edge of Truth in 2026, at a median 400 pages.

Janice Hallett writes crime novels told through documents: emails, letters, transcripts and case files that the reader assembles. The Appeal (2021) opens the catalogue, followed by The Twyford Code, The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, The Christmas Appeal and The Examiner. Nine books reach Death at the Museum in 2026.

Janice Holt Giles, born in 1905 and died in 1979, was an American novelist who lived near Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky and wrote about that state. Frontier and pioneer life, mountain communities and country life fill the Kentuckians and Piney Ridge books. Twenty-three titles are catalogued, from The Enduring Hills (1950) through The Kentuckians (1953) and Hannah Fowler (1956) to Act of Contrition (2001).

Janice Thompson has 148 books in the catalogue, from Duty to Die (2001) to Mistletoe and Mayhem (2025). Subjects include weddings, Christian romance, dating, Christian life, mystery, girls and children's fiction. Series include Weddings by Bella, Texas Weddings, Bridal Mayhem Mystery, Hill Country Bride, Boardwalk Brides, Brides With Style, Red, White, and Blue Weddings, Freedom Express and Red Truck Mysteries. Early titles include A Class of Her Own (2002), Angel Incognito (2004) and The Wedding Caper (2006).

Janie Bolitho (1950-2002) wrote crime fiction set largely in Cornwall. Born in Falmouth, Bolitho worked as a psychiatric nurse, a debt collector, a bookmaker's clerk and for a tour operator before writing full time, and divided her later years between Cornwall, Berkshire and Devon. Two series carry the 25 catalogued books, Ian Roper and Rose Trevelyan, running from Kindness Can Kill (1993) to Caught Out in Cornwall (2003). Bolitho died of breast cancer in late 2002, and Manadon Arena was christened Bolitho Park in her honour in December 2003.

Janie Chang writes historical fiction with ghosts and the afterlife in it, following young women through coming-of-age stories. Five books are catalogued: Three Souls (2013), Dragon Springs Road (2017), The Library of Legends (2020), The Porcelain Moon (2023) and The Fourth Princess (2026). Roughly three years separate one from the next, and the books run long, at a median of 400 pages.

Romantic suspense is Janie Crouch's field, and the catalogue counts 90 books from Infiltration / Stealth (2014) to Code Name: Scorpio (2026). Linear Tactical, Omega Sector, Zodiac Tactical, Resting Warrior Ranch, San Antonio Security, Warrior Peak Sanctuary and Heroes of Oak Creek are among the Crouch series. Intelligence officers, undercover operations, hostages, terrorism investigations and women scientists recur in the subjects. Special Forces Savior (2015) is one of the early titles.

Janna MacGregor writes historical Regency romance, with Great Britain and the nobility among the catalogue subjects. The catalogue counts 19 books, opening with The Bad Luck Bride (2017) and reaching Curves for the Secret Duke (2026), with Curves for the Notorious Duke due in 2027. Series include Cavensham Heiresses, Widow Rules and Millionaires of Mayfair. Revenge, orphans and trusts appear among the listed subjects, and titles include The Good, the Bad, and the Duke (2018) and A Duke in Time (2021).

Janny Wurts is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator who often paints her own covers and has won Chesley Awards for that artwork. The Wars of Light and Shadow, her longest sequence, turns on the half-brothers Arithon s'Ffalenn and Lysaer s'Ilessid and opens with The Curse of the Mistwraith (1993). Wurts also wrote the Cycle of Fire trilogy and, with Raymond E. Feist, the Empire trilogy. Her collection That Way Lies Camelot was nominated for the 1995 British Fantasy Award. Twenty-six titles reach Song of the Mysteries (2024).