by jenna | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Nell Gwyn – A Seventeenth Century Celebrity Eleanor Gwyn, known as Nell, was a celebrity back in the mid-17th century when the term hadn’t even been invented. One of the first professional actresses in England, she forged a path for others to follow and inspired a new...
by jenna | Feb 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writing friendship As writers we often have an urge to pen something in particular and what I love about being an author is deciding what feels right at the time, when I’m faced with that totally blank page. The Year That Changed Us is my 33rd book and when I sat...
by jenna | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
It’s every writer’s dream to have their book adapted for TV right? Amanda Reynolds had her book Close To Me adapted into a drama on Channel 4, and in light of her brand new book The Screenwriter coming out, she’s been reflecting on the process of...
by jenna | Jan 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of the questions I guarantee people will ask me is, ‘Do you do much research?’ My answer is, ‘Absolutely. Continually.’ I’m a naturally nosey person and so my research comes two-fold. First, I love to people watch. Not just idly observe them as they pass by in the...
by jenna | Dec 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Am I alone in believing that our natural skills manifest themselves in their own time? You could drum hundreds of hours of algebra into me as a kid and I’d still be perplexed and left wondering what I was supposed to do with it. Ask me to write an essay on the most...
