Jeanette Hanscome

Author Bio:

Jeanette Hanscome is a multi-published author of both fiction and nonfiction. In addition to her Christmas novella, GIFTS, she has written novels for Annie's Fiction's Rose Cottage Book Club and Guideposts Whistle Stop Cafe Mystery series. Jeanette is passionate about sharing stories of hope and grace that highlight deep relationships and a little adventure. When she isn’t writing, speaking at writers conferences, and coaching authors, Jeanette loves gravitates toward all things creative, including singing, knitting, crocheting, and lettering art. Now that her sons have flown off into the world, her new sidekick is a ukulele.

Rumors Are Flying

The Whistle Stop Café is buzzing with the latest town news: The Dennison Preservation Society plans to turn a historic Victorian-style home that was a boardinghouse for wounded soldiers in the 1940s into a museum. Janet Shaw is fascinated by the house and becomes even more so, when WWII veteran Ray…

Accentuate the Positive

When Janet Shaw buys a vintage portable writing desk filled with old stationery, a lifetime supply of pencils, and an old fountain pen, she decides to set up a place in the Whistle Stop Café for customers to write encouraging words and notes. Her best friend, Debbie Albright, agrees that it will add…

Gifts: A Christmas Novella

Justine McNally is down to the last two packages in a box of twelve anonymous gifts to give away when one arrives in the mail with her name on it. It’s from her stepfather, and she does not plan to accept it. But when the final days before Christmas bring a flood of decade-old memories of shattered…