Jane Ammeson

Jane Simon Ammeson is a freelance writer who specializes in travel, food and personalities. She writes frequently for Times of Northwest Indiana, Edible Michiana, Kentucky Living magazine, Lakeland Boating, MexConnect, Long Weekends Magazine, Travel Indiana, Indianapolis Monthly, and the Herald Palladium where she has a weekly food column. Her Touch Screen Travel app "Best Of Indiana" will be online soon. She writes the monthly marketing column for the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA). She is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books.

She also writes the book review column Shelf Life for the Times of Northwest Indiana, has authored 14 books including Lincoln Roadtrip: The Backroads Guide to America’s Favorite President, winner of the Bronze Award in the 2019-20 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition in the Travel Book category.

Her historic true crime books include How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away With It: Murder and Mayhem in the Gilded Age, Murders That Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana and A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana. She is also the author of other books such as Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest, Brown County, Indiana, Holiday World with Pat Koch, and East Chicago. Jane’s base camp is Stevensville, Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Follow Jane at https://www.instagram.com/janeammeson, https://twitter.com/janeammeson1, https://janeammeson.blog/, https//shelflife.blog; https://www.facebook.com/janesimonammeson; https://harborgirlwrites.tumblr.com/and http://www.nwitimes.com/niche/shore/blogs/will-travel-for-food/