Jan Yager

Jan Yager is a consultant, coach, speaker, and the author of 60+ award-winning books, with translations into 35 languages. Jan, the former J.L. (Janet Lee) Barkas, has a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hofstra University, an M.A. in Criminal Justice, from Goddard College Graduate Program, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from The City University of New York Graduate Center.

Jan's master's thesis was on "Victims of Crime and Social Change." She went on to publish a book about crime victims, VICTIMS, to teach victimology and criminology courses, and to write the textbook, ESSENTIALS OF VICTIMOLOGY, published in 2022 by Aspen Publishing with a 2nd edition due out in 2025.

Business including time management and relationships are two additional areas of research and concern for Jan, besides crime victims and vegetarianism. Here are just some of the many topics and related books by this prolific author: finding a romantic partner (125 WAYS TO MEET THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE); time management (WORK LESS, DO MORE; PUT MORE TIME ON YOUR SIDE; HOW TO FINISH EVERYTHING YOU START); friendship (WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS, published by Simon & Schuster); FRIENDGEVITY; and FRIENDSHIFTS); as well as writing and publishing (EFFECTIVE BUSINESS AND NONFICTION WRITING; FOREIGN RIGHTS AND WRONGS; HOW TO SELF-PUBLISH YOUR BOOK; and HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR BOOK)

Jan's fiction includes five novels: ON THE RUN; JUST YOUR EVERYDAY PEOPLE and UNTIMELY DEATH (co-authored with husband Fred Yager). (There are completed spec screenplays available based on these three novels.)