{"id":860,"date":"2013-03-28T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=860"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T18:52:32","slug":"new-publications-for-janet-ruth-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2013\/03\/28\/new-publications-for-janet-ruth-young\/","title":{"rendered":"New publications for Janet Ruth Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/03\/Janet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/03\/Janet.jpg\" title=\"Janet\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-861\" height=\"290\" width=\"248\" \/><\/a>We are pleased to report that Janet Ruth Young (Fiction 1987) published two young adult novels with <a href=\"http:\/\/imprints.simonandschuster.biz\/atheneum\">Atheneum Books for Young Readers<\/a>, a division of Simon &amp; Schuster, in November of 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beautiful-Failure-Janet-Ruth-Young\/dp\/1416954899\">My Beautiful Failure<\/a> tells the story of a teen boy who volunteers at a suicide hotline and falls in love with a troubled caller. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Things-Shouldnt-Think-Janet-Young\/dp\/1442451076\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1364496449&amp;sr=1-2\">Things I Shouldn\u2019t Think<\/a> is about a babysitter whose obsessive-compulsive disorder causes her to worry about harming the child she cares for. You can learn more about Janet&#8217;s work at her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janetruthyoung.com\">www.janetruthyoung.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Janet Ruth Young graduated from Salem State College and BU. She was a co-editor of the literary magazine <em>stet<\/em> and a founder of Writers&#8217; Circle, the writing workshop at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgewomenscenter.org\/news\/calendar.html\">Cambridge Women&#8217;s Center<\/a>. She left her job as a textbook editor to focus on writing fiction.<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Janet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to report that Janet Ruth Young (Fiction 1987) published two young adult novels with Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon &amp; Schuster, in November of 2012. My Beautiful Failure tells the story of a teen boy who volunteers at a suicide hotline and falls in love with a troubled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}