Janet Hubbard has spent over fifty years in publishing, working as a researcher at Time-Life Books, and eventually writing twenty-five non-fiction books for Chelsea House Publishers in NYC, and working as a teacher and editor. She moved into fiction in 2012 with the publication of her mystery trilogy, Vengeance in the Vineyards, set in the vineyards of France. The Eloquence of Grief is a stand-alone novel based on her own story.