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| Previous News - March 2007 Having returned from New Zealand last February with a fiancé, Jane added “plan wedding” to her to-do list – just beneath “write next novel”.  After an exciting honeymoon on safari in Tanzania and a rest on the beach in Zanzibar, Jane returned to the real world and to her second draft. But by early 2007 her task was complete and The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter will be available for you to enjoy later this year. March 2006 Having completed a beginner’s screenwriting course, Jane put her film writing ideas to one side and wrote her fourth novel – Like Mother, Like Daughter - in 2005 and has just started work on her fifth. In order to ensure that the life of a writer didn’t become too sedentary, and to prevent Jane spending all her spare time playing with iTunes, in April 2005 she acquired a puppy. Thirty-something and child-free Jane soon realised that, stretch marks and breastfeeding aside, four legged parenthood is more similar to having a baby than she could have possibly imagined. With no sign of a pre-pup and shoes that are definitely not for chewing she has now found a constant companion and useful feet warmer in her Working (but resting) Cocker Spaniel who is adapting to life as a dog about town.
Jane spent February 2006 travelling around in New Zealand in a camper van where she tried her hand at blackwater rafting, hiking on a glacier and swimming with dusky dolphin. Halfway through a day of bicycling from cellar door to cellar door in the Marlborough region in search of the perfect Sauvignon Blanc, her boyfriend was so overcome with the setting (and the wine) that he ended up on one (actually both) knees. And so Jane has returned from the southern hemisphere with a fiancé (and rather glamorously was in a blue bicycle helmet at the moment of proposal – damn…) And so now, in a case of life imitating art, Jane has a wedding to plan and is hoping to avoid any Technical Hitches…. She is still writing articles and has also started doing some radio work. January 2005 Jane has spent the last year as a full-time writer and has been adjusting to life after an open-plan office. Having realised that there are definite advantages to working from home (no nasty commute, you can work in your pyjamas and no-one will ever know, you can get up at 7.58am and be at your desk by 8am) Jane has also realised that there are also definite disadvantages. Aside from the fact that you only burn between one and ten calories between getting up and starting work, you then consume hundreds of calories in the course of the morning – breakfast, biscuit while the kettle is boiling, multiple cups of tea (allegedly very bad for cellulite), another biscuit, etc. Also, when you work from home, there is no one to waste hours talking to when you don’t want to work, you feel guilty about taking time off when everyone else you know is in an office sounding very busy and there is no sick pay or holiday pay… However, Jane has certainly made the most of not having limited holiday days over the last year, re-learning to ski, learning to ride a big motorbike and spending a couple of weeks sailing (or at least, sitting on a yacht watching other people sail and trying to learn how to tie knots and play around with sails). On the work front, Jane wrote her third novel in 2004 and Technical Hitch – the novel approach to love, marriage and living together - is set for publication in 2005. Jane has also written an internet serial, a few articles and has appeared on television as a relationship expert on “Loose Lips”. She is hoping to write more feature articles for newspapers and magazines and has also signed up for a screenwriting course. Meanwhile she has just started writing her fourth book for Red Dress Ink, due for publication in 2006. November 2003 After spending the summer as a serial wedding and hen weekend attendee, Jane landed the jammiest job ever. International house and dog sitter extraordinaire, she left London for the Caribbean island of Virgin Gorda where she spent the month of September walking dogs, killing a lot of mosquitoes, dodging a couple of hurricanes and starting to write her next book for Red Dress Ink. Technical Hitch is due to be published in January 2005.
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