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What an accolade for From Bedtime On to be in the last five for the prestigious Kindle Book Award for Poetry. I already feel like a winner but wish me luck for the announcement on November 1st! You can check out all the finalists here, including my five competitors. What a year for awards! Four…
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I’ve just finished uploading my new gallery of photos ‘The Forge in The Forest’. It took a month’s work with local blacksmith Mael Miranda to photograph the story of a Damascene steel knife being made, from raw metal and a tree trunk to a fine blade with polished yew handle. The forge is up a…
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Linda Thompson from the Authors Show asks me all about the book, my dogs and my life! Watch the video here

The launch for ‘Song Hereafter’ is going so well and we’re partying on fb like it’s 1153. It’s not too late to join in and read all kinds of Troubadour fun facts. The party is here and I thought I’d wear furs – live ones with little black noses.

The launch for ‘Song Hereafter (TODAY!) just gets better and better. Top historical novelist and blogger Deborah Swift has made The Troubadours Quartet her book recommendation for the month. Jean Gill’s Song Hereafter, the final book in the series about troubadours Dragonetz and Estela is tour de force. Every character, and that includes the horses,…
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Author and blogger Elizabeth Noreen Newton asked me how I created the characters’ names in The Troubadours Quartet. I had no idea that the answer would be so long! There’s a list of characters at the beginning of ‘Song Hereafter’ and it gave me a shock to realise that I’d included a hundred real 12th…
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Another award for ‘Left Out’ so I’m feeling very upbeat as well as excited in the run-up to the launch of ‘Song Hereafter!’ You can see the detail here

I was so excited to learn that ‘Left Out’ has won a Bronze Award in Children’s Books: Social Issues category from the Readers’ Favorites site. Part of my prize is an invitation to the Book Festival in Miami in November but it’s just too far for me and bad timing. One day I will not…
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Thanks to LitPick Student Book Reviews​ for making me featured author! Great to see my oldest novel published at last! (I was 11 when I wrote it…) ***How did you get started writing? I’ve always loved writing stories. I wrote my first novel when I was 11, a dramatic adventure in 10 chapters, titled Jill’s…
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Fantastic review from Shut Up & Read duo Stephanie and Emily. The verdict is positive (phew!) ‘Entertaining reads – we would recommend them’ but the detail is really interesting. ‘Left Out’ resonated far more with left-hander Emily than with right-hander Stephanie, who was surprised at the idea that being left-handed could be important in somebody’s…
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