In my 23-year Army career, I worked primarily in personnel and public affairs, serving my last four years in the Washington, D.C., area. Since retiring in Pensacola, I’ve held jobs ranging from a women’s assisted living facility administrator (Woman’s Home) to Exceptional Student Education (ESE) teacher and intervention specialist/behavior coach at Warrington and Bellview Middle Schools. I retired from the Escambia County School District in 2020.

Janice Ryan Hall, Author

I’ve served as chair of the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival and currently serve on the Art Show, Emerging Artist and Scholarship Committees.

Writing/editing credits include articles and photos published in Climate and Pensacola Today magazines and the Pensacola News Journal, including several of its specialty publications, for about a dozen years.

I participated in the “So, You Want to Write for the Pensacola News Journal” forum at then-Pensacola Junior College. Served as a panelist for two sessions of a Gulf Coast Writers Conference in Panama City, FL. In 2007 I was a featured speaker at the Friends of the Pensacola Public Library Meet the Author Series. I co-chaired and presented at the 2019 Pensacola Writing and Book Festival.

In 2006 I won the First Annual Florida Noir Festival noir script competition for The Red Heron, set in Pensacola in August 1941. In 2008 I won a national WOW! Women on Writing Honorable Mention for my flash fiction, Sex and Money, which also won first place in a Gulf Coast Writers Conference Gulf Coast Idol contest.

My published books include Killing the Past, Art Attack, Blood Ties, Peckerheads (writing as Erin Jay Lachlan—an anagram of Janice Ryan Hall), [Un]Gone (writing as Jan Hall), Deadly Ties, Lost and Found, Dawn Breaks, Sins of Our Mothers and Son Day. These books are available through Amazon or other retailers. All covers, except Killing the Past, were designed by Ron Hall, award-winning digital designer.

Killing the Past won Pottersville Press’s 2^nd Annual Novel Writing Contest in 2005. Blood Ties (submitted as Blood Relations) was a finalist in the Mystery Category of the Writers’ League of Texas 2008 Manuscript Contest.