Janson Mancheski

Janson Mancheski is an award-winning author of five novels, and has three times made the Amazon Best-Sellers' list for crime fiction. The Chemist Series (The Chemist, Trail of Evil, Mask of Bone) featuring Detective Cale Van Waring, are all set in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Chemist captured first place for fiction in the Sharp Writ Book Awards in 2010.

The Chemist movie script was a top 16 semi-finalist 2018 Big Break Screenplay Awards; and it also scored a top 16 semi-finalist in the 2018 Blue Cat Screenplay contest. His screenplay "Nuck" was a Writer’s Digest 2011 top 10 finalist in the movie script category.

Janson has authored a number of short stories and been granted awards for multiple screenplays. He continues to add to his roster of books. The screenplay version of his fourth novel, Shoot for the Stars (a historic Green Bay Packers “What If” novel), was a finalist for the 2014 Writer’s Digest creative fiction awards. His latest version of The Scrub, a fictional/memoir, will be released in April, 2020. A University of Wisconsin-Green Bay graduate and practicing optometrist, from 1985 – 2005 Janson worked with the UW-Green Bay men and women’s basketball teams. He also functioned as team eye doctor for the Green Bay Packers from 1990-2002. He remains an ardent Packers, UWGB Fighting Phoenix, and Wisconsin Badgers fan.