Janet Chester Bly

Janet Chester Bly is a city girl with a country heart. She doesn’t corral horses or mow her own lawn. “I’m no womba woman,” she says. But she followed her husband award-winning western author Stephen Bly to the Idaho mountain top village of Winchester to write books and minister to a small church. When she lost him, she stayed. She manages the online Bly Books bookstore, rakes lots of Ponderosa pine needles and cones, and survives the long winter snows. Janet Chester Bly has authored and co-authored with Stephen 32 contemporary and historical fiction and inspirational and family-themed nonfiction books. He also published 100 books of his own. She graduated as an adult with a B.S. degree from Lewis-Clark State College. She speaks on women’s issues and family challenges at women’s retreats and has taught at writers’ seminars and conferences. She’s been a judge for several writers’ contests, including the International Self-Published Book Awards, Operation First Novel, and Writer’s Digest Magazine.