About the Author
Janet Taylor-Perry, a native of Laurel, Mississippi, a graduate of the
University of Southern Mississippi with a BS in psychology, Belhaven University
with a Master of Arts in teaching, and gifted certification from Mississippi
College, is an author, editor, and educator in English, social studies, and
gifted. She has taught 5th - 12th grades in a number of
districts in the state. She currently teaches life skills in a variety of areas
with Goodwill Industries of Mississippi.
Janet's short pieces appeared in Letters from the Soul, 2002; Brick
Streets Press: 2010 Winner's Circle; and The Magnolia Quarterly, 2012 and 2013. She's produced pieces that
finished semi-finalist, short-list finalist, and finalist for The Pirates'
Alley Faulkner Wisdom Competition in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Memberships include Kappa Delta
Epsilon, Red Dog Writers, Gulf Coast Writers' Association, The Mississippi
Writers Guild, Mississippi Poetry
Society, and TheNextBigWriter.com.
The first and second installments of The Raiford Chronicles,
Lucky Thirteen http://amzn.to/1ld8grm and Heartless
http://amzn.to/1iWuYmP, can be found on
Amazon for both Kindle and in paperback, as well as at The Bookshelf,
Ridgeland, MS, Main Street Books, Hattiesburg, MS, and Southern Bound Book Shop, Biloxi, MS.
Inspiration comes through life experiences. She's the mother of
five and an avid reader who loves anything historical from antique cars to old cemeteries.
She's on Facebook at http://goo.gl/z3FFxx and can be found http://www.amazon.com/author/janettaylorperry, as well as on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/mom5kidz421
and via LinkedIn.
Hey, Janet. I, too, was a Psych major. Loved that B.F. Skinner! :) The biggest lesson I got out of it was that random, intermittent reinforcement was the most effective spur for achieving one's goals. That might be okay for lab rats, but I prefer constant reinforcement! :)
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