Jan Stone

As a school librarian and teacher, Jan Stone always prided herself on being able to find the right children's fiction book for any child who was experiencing worries or challenges in their life. She saw how it helped and comforted them to know that someone else understood what they were going through. There came a time, though, when the book she was searching for didn't seem to exist. She needed a story that would help a child to cope with the issues surrounding life with a narcissistic parent. Eventually she gave up searching and settled down to write it herself. The Glassmaker's Children, aimed at 8-12 year olds, is the result. Jan has taught and mentored young people in London, Suffolk, Essex and Somerset. She holds a Cert Ed and B Phil (Ed) and currently lives in a tiny cottage in the shadow of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, where she writes, creates educational resources and - rather bizarrely - makes and upcycles steampunk miniatures. What others say about Life: A Player's Guide: "If you decide to see life as a game, you can still take it seriously, yet more lightly, and with greater awareness. You simultaneously become your own observer and the participant. Emotions and feelings become scripts to observe and edit. Jan Stone's observations,insights and words become a simple guide inward; a reminder that what, and who we are being, is what matters, more than what we are doing." Bruce Scott, Ph.D. author of Being Real: An Ongoing Decision and Free The Children "Life: A Player's Guide is a wonderfully relevant and timely book. At last, here is an empowering, enlightening and eminently practical MBS message for young people. They are our future and this is their indispensable guide for co-creating a positive new era for people and planet." Dr Jude Currivan, cosmologist, planetary healer author of HOPE and The 8th Chakra. www.judecurrivan.com "A masterpiece of existential thinking for the digital age." Geoff Ward, Mysterious Planet.