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...
by jenna | May 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
My research so far… When I decided I wanted to start writing a brand new series I was looking to do something a bit different. I’d just watched RFDS season 1 which is a drama series based on the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australia and it got me thinking about the...
