About Jan Bozarth

Jan Bozarth was raised in an international family in Texas in the sixties, the daughter of a Cuban mother and a Welsh father. She danced in a ballet company at eleven, started a dream journal at thirteen, joined a surf club at sixteen, studied flower essences at eighteen, and went on to study music, art, and poetry in college. As a girl, she dreamed of a life that would weave these different interests together. Her dream came true when she grew up and had a big family and a music and writing career. Jan is now a grandmother and writes stories and songs for young people. Jan credits her own mother, Dora, with handing down her wisdom: Dream big and never give up.

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If You Really Knew Aventurine…

Have you ever wondered how Aventurine came to be? If you love the Fairy Godmother Academy books and have been curious about what’s next, your wait is almost over.  Contact me via this blog or on our Fairy Godmother Academy Facebook page to be a secret reader for the advance e-book version of Queens of Aventurine! I’ll be sharing the pre-release free e-book with a limited number of Super Fans.

 The Queens of Aventurine gives you the backstory and sets you up for the new YA series, Coded4Greatness coming soon.

Here’s something from the Queens of Aventurine:

“After the tapestry was lost, I hid the Mermaid Crystal Viewer because I was sure that your tapestry’s disappearance was foul play. Now that I am gone, I want you both to use the Viewer.  It will allow you to see beyond into a whole other world. That is where your lost destiny tapestry can be found, Annabel.  Look through the eyepiece. You’ll know what to do after that. Take care of each other and remember who you are.”

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Jan Bozarth – Author
The Fairy Godmother Academy, Queens of Aventurine, and Coded4Greatness

Growing Up, Coming Back, & Writing New Stories

To my loyal girls, women, and guy fans:

Yes. I have been gone awhile. I had cancer. I am better now and writing again after the three-year journey. This part of my story has made me stronger though. I have grown up. So I wanted to write some new stories about teens and young adult girls, strong girls and older women, women who know things and have also ‘grown up’!

Here’s what I have been thinking. Many girls feel they have something special inside themselves, but they can’t quite name what it is. So they try and try to unravel their specialness, their unique powers, their genius. Sometimes that’s not so easy. You need friends who can relate to what you are going through. You need helpers. You need fairy godmothers.

My new series is called Coded4Greatness and it’s full of characters who can relate to that feeling. Each character has his or her own special genius which I call “codes”. The first book will be done in the fall of 2017. It is called The Dually Codes. You will recognize some of the characters because you met a few them in the Fairy Godmother Academy books. The old ones have grown up and the new ones are a bit older too like Mo and Annabel. These books are considered Young Adult Fiction and have boy characters and magic. And there is a new place where all the magic in the real world happens. Maybe you know someplace in your world like this. It’s called The Third Place and it’s a great big warehouse with all kinds of maker stuff for fashion design, music, computer coding, science experiments and much much more.

Next month I’ll be offering a free first chapter of the Dually Codes if you sign up for the new OFFICIAL Fairy Godmother Academy website.

Thanks for hangin’ in there with me. You’ll be the first to find out how to find your own Genius Codes when I start releasing the Coded4Greatness series.

Jan

Aventurine- The Beginning

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Many fans have asked me to tell the origin story of Aventurine.  Here you go!

Hundreds of years ago when the dreams and powers of girls and women were not allowed, twelve young girls from different places in the world witnessed a great comet. That night they went to bed and dreamed the same dream. All twelve were transported to a strange ridge above an unknown walled garden. The wall was made of a blue stone they call the dreamers stone, aventurine. There was a twin oak tree at the entrance to the walled area. As passage, the tree offered the chance to choose from what appeared to be two identical acorns. But they were very different inside-one was the light and the other the darkness. The leader of the girls chose the light acorn by intuition since seeing was not enough. This allowed them to enter the walled garden. The other acorn was carried off into the distance by a black crow. In celebration, the girls built a place where their dreams could be held safely until the people of the human world were ready. On the first day, they discovered a race of beautiful indigenous people. The leader of the twelve named these people Faeren because they looked like full sized humans with fairy wings.

Changing

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Happy Fairy God-Mother’s Day 2014- When writing a new story for my series, I always marvel at how whatever comes out of my brain seems to mimic my real life- even when I do not mean for that to happen.

I have been writing the next story for about a year now. If you have read the teasers on the site, you know the new lineage is called the Luci Lineage.  They are the ones that teach the initiates about personal power by holding their own little “luci”, a pet-like light form they are given at the age of 13. This lineage creates all that is beauty in Aventurine. They can change their form at any moment both to disguise and to beguile. They have the power to change and so do you.  There is no set rule for what is beautiful and every girl must choose her own way to look, feel, believe, and act in the world. These are your gifts and your powers.  It has nothing to do with body shape or hair color.  When you realize this is all up to you, you get busy making the best of what you’ve got.

I am ever-changing. My changes often feel like a crossing to a foreign land. That is why I have decided to call the next book “Her Crossing” to honor the ever-changing-ness of girls and women throughout their lives.  This title was given to me by my brother years ago when our mother, Dora, was crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the Queen Mary to go to Europe and recorded her life story onto a small tape recorder to pass the time.  Her stories of crossing from one place to another, both geographically and emotionally, stayed in my consciousness. Now I write the stories of the girls who will pass from Faeren to human, human to Faeren, girl to woman, woman to crone.

Believing in your own Beauty

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The most beautiful people I have ever known all have things in common.  They are kind, passionate, and honest. They shine.  What makes you shine?  We don’t have a crystal ball but we do have our inner light.  Shine it on the outside and see what happens! Our newest Global Wisdom Act begins with The Best Question Ever Mobile Game and Contest, Starting April 8 at tbqe.io  Turn your beauty inside out. Tell us how you do it.

London Calling!

I love London.  I am introducing the Fairy Godmother Academy books in the UK this week. They really get fairies here. Write to me if you are a fan in the UK.

Check out this Wisdom on a blackboard at Neal Courtyard.

There are many magical places on earth. London was calling me and I answered! Where do you find magic?

Faeriecon West: Day 1 – Suspending Disbelief

Something happens when a bunch of humans get together to celebrate the imagination. Beauty and humor come pouring through. At this conference it is easy to meet those who have no trouble suspending disbelief- letting go of “so called reality” to soar freely through other worlds. Imagination-It’s a worthy destination that some people call home. I interviewed one such person today. Toby Froud is at home in the fairy world. He’s a beacon. Follow!!!