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Writer’s bio

J anson Mancheski is the author of three previous crime novels set in Green Bay, Wisconsin: The Chemist, Trail of Evil, and Mask of Bone, all featuring Green Bay homicide detective Cale Van Waring. Shoot For the Stars, his fourth novel, is a work of historical fiction that explores the Green Bay Packers from the team’s founding in 1919, to the hiring of Vince Lombardi. Janson has won multiple writing awards. His screenplay Nuck was a Writer’s Digest award winner in 2008. The Chemist won first place in the fiction category of the 2010 Sharp Write Book Awards. The screenplay version of Shoot For the Stars was a finalist in the Writer’s Digest 2012 Fiction Contest.

Janson is a University of Wisconsin–Green Bay graduate. He was awarded his Doctor of Optometry degree from Illinois College of Optometry, in Chicago. From 1990 – 2000 he functioned as team eye doctor for the Green Bay Packers. From 1985 – 2005 he worked with the UW-Green Bay Men and Women’s basketball teams in a similar capacity.