Janice is an editor, designer, illustrator, author, and publisher. She is the artist of Bookcrossing's LE bookplate #21, Bookcrossing Train Stop.

Janice is also the author of Open Your Heart with Pets: Mastering Life through Love of Animals, published by DreamTime Publishing. This book is one in a series of books that encourage readers to explore hobbies as a way to enrich their lives. Janice’s book is endorsed by wildlife expert, Jack Hanna.

She is currently blogging on pets at www.oyhwithpets.blogspot.com

She also maintains a blog on art at www.appalachianmorning.blogspot.com a Cafe Press site of whimsical pet drawings on various products at www.cafepress.com/janicephelps and an online gallery of Abstract work at http://www.gallery.janicephelps.com.

Janice has also written: Wham! Bam! Publishing: The Strategic Marketing Plan for Authors and Publishers (co-authored with Joan E. Phelps) and under her pen name, Claire Starr, What Saved Me: A Dozen Ways to Embrace Life. She has also edited and illustrated a re-telling of the classic book, Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders as They Called Me Beautiful: A Dog’s Search for Love and the Family that Rescued Him.