Janet Roberts is an award-winning author of fiction set wholly or partially in Western Pennsylvania where her roots run deep. Its lush green mountains, warm sunny beaches, and salt of the earth kind of people populate her writing as they do her life. Her cross-genre, suspense/thrillers feature a woman on a transformational journey to find her own personal power. A former globally recognized expert in cybersecurity education, she often includes elements of cybersecurity in her writing.

 

What Lies We Keep (2024) is the winner of the 2025 International Impact Book Awards Winner - Realistic Fiction; 2024 Literary Titan Silver Book Award in Fiction; 2024 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Summer Competition for Fiction - Suspense Genre; 2024 Firebird Book Award for Fiction; 2024 TAZ Award Winner - Mystery from Pittsburgh’s The Author Zone. It was a Finalist for the 2024 Hawthorne Prize from American Writing Awards; 2024 Best New Fiction from American Best Book Awards; and 2024 Best New Fiction from American Bookfest Best Book Awards.

 

Wired For Magic (2026) was named a Finalist for the 2026 Eric Hoffer Award. 

 

Reviews have termed her writing “cinematic”, “brilliant and fresh prose”, and “authentic and relatable characters”, with themes of forgiveness, redemption, and the unleashing of personal power that readers can relate to.  

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