Janice Monk Glass was destined to write when she was born into deeply rooted East Texas families of farmers, educators and authors. Her first works were published in a national magazine when she was nine-years-old. Education included English, Elementary Education, and Library Science at East Texas State University; Psychology at Vanderbilt University, and Belmont School of Music. She holds certificates in paralegal law, accounting, and abstracting. This latest book, The Departing Spirits, is a fifteen story collection of romance, humor, mass murder, deceit, mystery and downright fun.