About The Author

Janet Kuypers (June 22, 1970), graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana with a degree in News/Editorial Communications Journalism (with computer science engineering studies). She had the equivalent of a minor in photography and specialized in creative writing.

In the early 1990s she worked as a portrait photographer for years, was an acquaintance rape workshop facilitator, and edited two literary magazines. Later she was an art director, webmaster and photographer for a few magazines for a publishing company in Chicago.

Kuypers is published in books, magazines and on the internet almost 6,000 times for writing or almost 1,900 times for art work in her professional career, and has been profiled in such magazines as Nation and Discover U. She sang with acoustic bands “Mom’s Favorite Vase”, “Weeds and Flowers” and “the Second Axing,” does music sampling and learns to play the guitar. She turned her writing into performance art on her own and with musical groups like “Pointless Orchestra,” “5D/5D” and “Order From Chaos.” She has performed spoken word and music across the country - in the spring of 1998 she embarked on her first national tour, with featured performances, among other venues, at the Albuquerque Spoken Word Festival during the National Poetry Slam; her bands have had concerts in Chicago and in Alaska; in 2003 she hosted and performed at a weekly poetry and music open mic, and starting in 2002 was a featured performance artist, doing quarterly performance art shows with readings, music and images,

She has published eight books: Hope Chest in the Attic, The Window. Close Cover Before Striking, (woman.), Autumn Reason, the Average Guy’s Guide (to Feminism), Contents Under Pressure, and eventually Changing Gears, Etc. and The Key To Believing.

When doing all of that wasn’t enough, she decided to quit her job and travel around the United States and Mexico, writing travel journals (Changing Gears) and writing her first novel (The Key To Believing). After a collection book of short stories was published of Janet Kuypers and Bernadette Miller’s writing (called Domestic Blisters), she did intricate web design and engineering, using video (mov and mpeg), sound clips (.aif, .au, .mp3, .ra, and .wav), writings and e-books (PDF, Microsoft Reader, Palm Pilot reader, web page and text files) available on line.

OEUVRE

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in conjunction with Penny Dreadful Press
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first edition
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copyright @ 2004 Scars Publications and Design
writings @ 1979-2004 Janet Kuypers
book design @ 1998-2004 Scars Publications and Design

This book, as a whole, is fiction, and no correlation should be made between events in the book and events in real life. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.

Information about past books is available upon request through Scars Publications and Design. Materials from the literary magazines “Children, Churches and Daddies” and “Down in the Dirt” are available on line at http://scars.tv, as are .mp3 files, .ra files, .aif files, .au files, .wav files .mov and mpeg files of Kuypers, both reading her work and singing with three sets of musicians.

Oeuvre is published through Scars Publications and Design, whose publisher is a member/minister through the Universal Life Church. Scars Publications and Design, the logo and associated graphics @ 1979 - 2004. All rights reserved. Kuypers and Scars Publications and Design welcome your comments, tips, compliments or complaints. Direct all comments and suggestions to the e-mail addresses listed above.

The definition of oeuvre (the works of a writer, painter, or the like, taken as a whole) is from the Websters Unabridged 2001 Dictionary.