Chasing Death
About the Author



















"I view every misfortune as an opportunity to improve my life and that of others."


Jan Andersen has been a professional freelance writer, copywriter and editor since 1999, before which she had pursued a marketing and PR career spanning 25 years, between giving birth to four children; Kristian, Anneliese, Carsten and Lauren.

She writes compelling and diverse commercial copy for a broad spectrum of industries and contributes informative, inspirational and often humorous articles, features and columns on a wide range of topics to online and print media and books around the world.  She is also the author of two fertility e-books; Enhancing Fertility After Age 40 and Improve Your Fertility Naturally.  Jan's specialities include: 

 - Book editing (fiction and non-fiction)
 - Script editing (Screenplays, films)
 - Government policies, manifestos and other documentation (confidential)
 - Articles for the Independent, Guardian and Huffington Post (ghostwriting for cients)
 - Commercial Copywriting - all business sectors
 - Website Content
 - Articles, Features & Columns
 - Business, Personal & Complaint Letters
 - Dissertations
 - Marketing
 - Ebay Descriptions and Admin

Recently, Jan has decided to concentrate more on her artistic pursuits. Samples of her artwork can be viewed at http://www.aphroditeart.org

Jan also owns and manages several websites single-handedly, all of which she also designed, including the world’s premier resource for older mothers, Mothers Over 40 (http://www.mothersover40.com), Child Suicide (http://www.childsuicide.org), a supportive resource for families who have lost a child to suicide and Jan Andersen Writing Services (http://www.creativecopywriter.org), which is Jan’s personal business site.

Jan has participated in numerous national and international radio and TV programmes as a result of her websites and written work.

Words that sum up Jan: Spiritual, kind, creative, intuitive, compassionate, funny, childlike, loving, positive.

Please feel free to contact me at jandersen8888 at live dot com.


©Jan Andersen 2009 - 2023

All rights reserved

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Ernest Hemingway
Surviving after loss
Image ©Jan Andersen 2013, Norway
Chasing Death: 
Losing a Child to Suicide

ISBN: 978-1-905399-44-4
Publisher: Perfect Publishers Ltd
Pages: 488
£13.99

ISBN 978-1-905399-45-1 (E-book) £4.44




£3 from the sale of every hard copy of the book is being donated to CALM, (Campaign Against Living Miserably), an award-winning charity dedicated to preventing male suicide.