by jenna | Jul 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Holding out for a Greek hero… You know how it usually goes. You read the book, you fall so in love with the leading man and then they make the film and… eww, who did they choose to play your book boyfriend?! He’s not right at all! In your head he was taller, fitter,...
by jenna | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Red versus Grey Enid Blyton, who comprised a good deal of my reading material, wrote about red squirrels, which led me to believe that all squirrels were red. Many of my books as a child were written in similar times, before the grey squirrel outcompeted and brought...
by jenna | Jun 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Life Begins… It’s funny how midlife creeps up on you. One minute you’re a young looking 20 something feeling rather annoyed at being asked for ID at the bar, the next you’d do anything to have that happen one last time. When I was younger, the idea of being 40 or...
by jenna | Jun 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
A different kind of book research My new book, It Had to be You, is about Libby, who grew up in a fostering family. One foster carer who reviewed it commented on my ‘great research’. This made me smile. The research undertaken for the fostering aspect of this book...
by jenna | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Farewell Party with a dark twist! The idea for my new novel Guilty, came from an old school friend, Lucy Fassett, who held a farewell party to celebrate her life with family and friends seven years ago. She died of bowel cancer a few weeks later aged just 48. (And I...