She is the New York Times bestselling author of Paris Letters, a book based on the creation of an illustrated letter-writing service of the same name. She is also the author of A Paris Year, a travel journal about Paris, which was named one of USA TODAY's top most beautiful books.

She is from Canada. She spent several years as an advertising copywriter in Toronto and Los Angeles.

Janice and her family live in Port Dover, Canada, and live in Paris part of the year. She considers any day creating art for her Etsy shop a day well spent.