Janice Hardy photo

Janice Hardy

Janice Hardy is the award-winning author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars, including The Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall from Balzer+Bray/Harper Collins.

She also writes the Grace Harper series for adults under the name, J.T. Hardy.

When she's not writing fiction, she runs the popular writing site Fiction University, and has written multiple books on writing, including Understanding Show, Don't Tell (And Really Getting It), Plotting Your Novel: Ideas and Structure, and the Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft series.


“Doing what's right is seldom easy.”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“Go forth and mutilate fish.”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“Aylin stepped outside before Danello could argue further. What's going on Nya's declaring war on the Duke he said. I thought we alredy did that.”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“Grannyma always said the Saints hide your fate in their pockets.”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“I would not bend.They could not make me Pliable.My mind was strong.My mind was mine.”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good.”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they?”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“I am worse than they are, I didn't DO anything to stop them”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was”
Janice Hardy
Read more
“Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about?”
Janice Hardy
Read more