About Jeanette Juryea
Daydreamer extraordinaire
I love the fantasy of traveling in time. I’ll read any book, any genre,
if it sweeps me into different times and different places. I’m fascinated
by history — especially colonial America and Medieval Europe. My favorite
authors are Diana
Gabaldon and
Ken Follet. I love visiting historical sites and imagining what it might
have been like for the people who lived there so long ago. I also imagine
what it might be like if someone from our time suddenly got stuck in that
time. And then I’ll write a story about it!
Writing maniac
My stories are all either historical or they involve time travel. I like writing
to middle grade and young adult audiences. Displaced
is one story that I’m especially proud of. It’s a sort of Back to the Future
adventure with some Wizard of Oz flavoring and a pinch of Karate Kid mixed in.
It’s where the future meets the past in our present.
Corporate Freelancer
While I continue to build my fiction career, I am also President of “QuBComm”
a corporate writing company that serves the employee benefits niche. I write
marketing materials for big insurance companies and I write customized employee
benefits materials for large corporations. I’m also a corporate editor,
and after 15 years of doing that, I find that I make the same changes again
and again when reviewing materials written by others. Here’s my Top
10 List for better business writing.
Enthusiastic teacher
I like to share my corporate writing techniques and trade secrets. My workshops
help others learn to do what I do — whether that’s other freelance writers
or well-skilled and well-educated corporate managers, who are not writing
professionals, but who get stuck writing in their jobs.