Jane Simon Ammeson

Ever since she started her own newspaper at age eight, selling it to neighbors who had no choice but to subscribe, Jane has loved to write.

She’s now upped her game writing about travel, food, history for newspapers, magazines and Websites and is the author of 16 books including Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America’s Favorite President which won the Lowell Thomas Journalism Award Bronze for Best Travel Book and the true crime book How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away With It: Money & Mayhem in the Gilded Age. She has several new books out this year including America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness and Classic Restaurants of The Region: Northwest Indiana’s All-Time Favorite Eats.

A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), Midwest Travel Journalists Association (MTJA) and International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA), Jane’s home base is on the shores of Lake Michigan in Southwest Michigan. Follow Jane on Facebook; Twitter @HPAmmeson; @janeammeson1 ; @travelfoodIN  Instagram ; Tumblr and shelflife.blog

Contact janeammeson@gmail.com