Jana was born in Czechoslovakia, where children once made their toys themselves and families played many simple games together in their free time. When she was a little girl, she and her twin sister used to love taking long walks with their aunt Ruzenka in the streets of the old city. She remembered these happy times and as her own two sons grew up, she too took them for walks and told them stories about the world where love, loyalty and friendship are the most important values. Jana moved to the US and, encouraged by a friend, wrote these stories down. She lives in New England near the ocean