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A daughter of American missionaries, Jeanette Windle grew up in the jungles and small towns
of Colombia, now guerrilla hot zones. In 1981, Jeanette graduated magna cum laude with a degree in
Biblical Studies and Theology from Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta. In 1985, Jeanette and
her husband Martin moved to Bolivia to work with a nondenominational Christian mission organization.
While her husband served as director, Jeanette worked with women and children at risk in varied
regions of Bolivia.
Jeanette began her publishing/writing career producing Spanish-language educational and inspirational
material for women and children at risk as well as writing articles for a variety of international
publications. This was followed over the next years by eight children's books, including the six
books of the Parker Twins Adventure Series, a young adult mystery/suspense series set in a multicultural
background. Her first major adult fiction release, CrossFire, a 630-page political/suspense
novel set in the counter-narcotics war in Bolivia, was released in July, 2000. A teen novel, Jana's Journal,
and a second adult political/suspense novel, The DMZ, set in the guerrilla warfare in Colombia,
were released in spring of 2002. FireStorm, an exploration of Islamic terror ties in Latin America, was
released, July, 2004. Her most recent suspense novel, Betrayed, is scheduled for release by Tyndale
House Publishers in March, 2008, in both English and Spanish. Tyndale has also recently published
The DMZ in Spanish as Zona de Despeje.
Jeanette and her husband Marty moved to Miami in June, 2000, when her husband assumed
the position of Vice-President of General Services for Latin America Mission, a nondenominational
Christian mission organization working throughout Latin America. In January, 2006, they moved again
to Lancaster, PA, when Marty accepted the position of President of BCM International, another nondenominational
mission organization serving in 50 countries on five continents.
Jeanette heads up BCM's media department, speaks and travels extensively both in the U.S.
and internationally, and serves as consulting editor and mentor in developing indigenous writers in
more than a dozen different countries from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, to Croatia and
the Philippines. She is recipient of Focus on Fiction's 2005 Deserted Island Book Award (i.e. the reading
material of choice if one were headed to a deserted island). Jeanette is also recipient of the South
Florida Writers Association 2004 Celebrity Author's Award and 2002 Mabel Meadows Staats Award.
She served for three years as VP of Publication for the South Florida Writers Association and president
of Miami-Dade Christian Writers and is currently president of Lancaster Christian Writers. Marty and
Jeanette have four children.
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