The Daughter of a Colonel, Janet Post, a self-described wild child, lived the military life until she got out of high school at which time she married and moved to Canada where she lived up in the Sechelt Inlet,. This set the scene for her YA novel, Spellcast Waters. Janet lived in a log cabin 15 miles by boat from the nearest town. She's lived in 40 different locations, including Hawaii where he worked as a polo groom for fifteen years. Upon moving to Florida she worked as a reporter covering children in middle school and teenagers in high school which further ignited her interest in writing YA novels. She loves kids and horses. She now lives in Hastings, the swampland of Florida with too many dogs and her fifteen year-old granddaughter. Together with her son Gabe she wrote the YA novels Voodoo Science and My BFF is an Alien. Her book Vagrant was named a finalist in the International Book Awards contest and was a Green Apple Special Selection winner.