You will find:
- posts on the writer’s craft
- some strange and surprising facts revealed during research
- guest posts from a wide variety of authors about their books, where the stories are set, and why.
- a few short stories (for free)
All posts have been written or selected to be thought-provoking and meaningful.
Comments on posts are welcome, but please be polite. Both reading and writing are a matter of taste; we should respect one another’s opinions and views.
If you would like to contribute, please contact me.
Secret agents, skulduggery, crime and romance, and sea voyages…
I am the creator the infamous rogue Ludo da Portovenere, who ‘charms the shadows of 17th Century intrigue’, and grumpy DS Bob Robbins who investigates crime on the British Home Front during WWII. Each series weaves fictional characters into real events.
In recent years, I have been working on a Viking-age saga drawing on Norse and Celtic myths and legends for younger – and not so younger – readers.
Prior to becoming a full-time fiction author, I was involved in international education and wrote a number of textbooks for Oxford University Press.
After travelling widely – I’ve visited or lived in most of the locations in my novels – I’m now settled in my husband’s home province of Andalucía, Spain.
Jane
Málaga, January, 2026
