Welcome to The INKPAPERWORDS NETWORK!
About Us
IPW
is the brainchild of Librarian/Raconteur Janet Leister. From
an early
age, Janet loved books. One of her first memories is making her own
because her mother refused to buy them, citing the "perfectly good
library just a few blocks away."
Janet exacted revenge by becoming a master-level reference librarian at the University of Alabama Graduate School of Library Service. Her undergraduate degree in English is from Washington State University.
Prior to launching InkPaperWords, Janet lived her dream job of collection development, wherein she toiled away reading reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, buying books and spending someone else's money to do it. Through an extremely convenient twist of fate, she narrowly escaped endronement as a mouthpiece for a self-congratulatory yet sadly irrelevant blog.
Janet currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with fiance Daniele, her son, a cat and a German Shepherd. In addition to the publishing gig and working on her second volume of poetry, together with Daniele she is busy restoring the house that belonged to her 103-year old grandmother Pearl.