Janet Rendall has had a love for writing and Route 66 since she was a child. She began writing short stories at age seven on her mother’s old Remington typewriter and traveled with her parents and younger brother on the “Mother Road” when she was nine. Vivid memories of that adventure include spotting the red and white Burma Shave signs along the roadside, the huge jackrabbit display for a trading post, and the garish billboard advertising the Meteor Crater.

 

In 2008, she and her husband drove Route 66 in their cherry red PT cruiser, staying mostly in lodgings from the era, including the famed Wigwam in Holbrook, and meeting visitors from around the world who had their own observations of the iconic highway. So it’s no wonder her two passions collided with her first novel Route 66 to the Milky Way.

 

A science fiction fan, Janet gained insight into the genre with the novels of Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, and Isaac Asimov. She can’t wait to read Neon Green by Margaret Wappler, who blends humor, science fiction, and fantasy with underlying commentary of our life in the 1990s. She’s attracted to science fiction because of the worlds she can create and the unique ideas and messages she imparts through the characters she invents.

 

Establishing herself as a writer has been a lifelong pursuit. During her many years as an occupational therapist and Certified Hand Therapist, she wrote extensively on these subjects in various trade and professional publications.

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She has received several writing awards from the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference and many others from the American Society of Hand Therapists and the Occupational Therapy Association of California.

 

Rendall is at work on a sequel to Route 66 to the Milky Way. Titled TubeLight, it answers many of the questions she’s gotten from readers about what’s become of May and Frank, the two main characters in her first novel.

When not writing and honing her craft, Janet enjoys cooking many of the recipes her mother taught her at a young age and collecting vintage cookbooks, one of America’s number one hobbies.

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