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Janson Mancheski
Janson Mancheski is the author of three previous crime novels set in Green Bay, Wisconsin: The Chemist, Trail of Evil and Mask of Bone all feature Green Bay homicide detective Cale...view moreJanson Mancheski is the author of three previous crime novels set in Green Bay, Wisconsin: The Chemist, Trail of Evil and Mask of Bone all feature Green Bay homicide detective Cale Van Waring. His fourth novel Shoot For the Stars is a work of historical fiction that explores the Green Bay Packers from the team's founding in 1919 to the hiring of Vince Lombardi. It explores the characters of Curly Lambeau, Tom Hearden, Johnny Blood McNally, and other historical Packers’ figures. Janson has won multiple writing awards. His screenplay Nuck was a Writer's Digest award winner in 2008. The Chemist won first place in the fiction category of the 2010 Sharp Writ Book Awards. The screenplay version of Shoot For the Stars was a finalist in the Writer's Digest 2012 Fiction Contest, and movie script of The Chemist is up for option by Voyage Media Productions. His latest novel The Scrub, a YA memoir, has just been released on 12/10/17.
Janson is a University of Wisconsin - Green Bay graduate. He was awarded his optometric degree from Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago. From 1990 - 2002, he functioned as team eye doctor for the Green Bay Packers. From 1985 - 2005 he worked with the UW-Green Bay Men and Women's basketball teams in a similar capacity.
An avid Packers fan, Janson lives in Green Bay and works in Shawano, Wisconsin. He enjoys biking, suspense movies and mystery novels, as well as the sport of competitive fencing. His favorite authors are Richard Montanari, Raymond Chandler, and E.A. Poe. He is currently at work on a fourth Cale Van Waring detective thriller.view less