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Janni Lee Simner

b. 1968

American writer

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Born 1968. Janni Lee Simner is a writer and novelist.

Janni Lee Simner (born November 3, 1967, in New York City, US ) is an American author of fantasy and adventure novels and short stories. She writes primarily for young adults as teenagers and upper elementary children.

Appearances She was involved in a number of panels and autograph signings at the 2007 North American Science Fiction Convention. On March 11–12, 2009, she was one of the four special guest authors for the Brandeis Book and Author Events at the Skyline Country Club in Arizona.

Simner was interviewed on CNN in relation to the essay she wrote for the anthology Dear Bully that had been a blog post that she had written about being bullied as a child. She discussed how she was contacted later in life online by one of her childhood bullies and they became friends. In response to the multiple child sexual abuse allegations made against by Marion Zimmer Bradley by her own children, Simner announced on June 13, 2014, that she would be donating advances from her two Darkover books, her Darkover royalties and at the request of her husband, Larry Hammer, payment for his sale to Bradley’s magazine to the American anti-sexual assault organization Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.

Personal life She is married to the author Larry Hammer, and they reside in Arizona.

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American writer

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Janni Lee Simner was born on 3 November 1968.

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Janni Lee Simner is a writer and novelist.

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· Wikipedia: Janni Lee Simner

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