Jane Wenham-Jones
Jane Wenham-Jones | |
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Born | 1964 |
Occupation | author, Television presenter and journalist |
Years active | 1990–present |
Jane Wenham-Jones is an author, journalist, presenter, interviewer, creative writing tutor, writing competition judge, and speaker who lives in Broadstairs, Kent, a town that appears in two of her novels. She is a columnist for the Isle of Thanet Gazette, Woman's Weekly Fiction Special and Writing Magazine.
Career
Wenham-Jones began her writing career in 1995 and has published novels, short stories, non-fiction articles and two Wannabe writing guides, in which, in "Wannabe a Writer", she coined the phrase 'Writer's Bottom'.
More than a hundred short stories have been published in magazines across the world including Active Life, Bella, Best, Candis, Chat, More, My Weekly, The People's Friend, Pulp Fiction, Take a Break, Take a Break Fiction Feast, Woman, Woman's Weekly, Woman's Realm, and Your Cat. A selection of these stories have been reprinted in Australia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, and The US.
Her short stories have also appeared in fiction anthologies including Café Olé Too Hot To Handle, Diamonds and Pearls, Loves Me, Loves Me Not, and the Sexy Shorts Charity Series.
Non-fiction contributions include The Help for Heroes Cookbook, Tweet Treats, Women Leading, and The You Are What You Eat Cookbook.
Wenham-Jones has regular columns in Woman's Weekly Fiction Special, Writing Magazine,[1] and her local paper, The Isle of Thanet Gazette.[2][3] She has written, or contributed to, articles in The Bookseller,[4] The Daily Express,[5] Family Circle, The Guardian,[6][7][8][9] My Weekly, The New Writer, Psychologies, Scarlet Magazine, She, The Sun, Sunday Express,[10] The Sunday Times,[11] The Times,[12] Woman, Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly, Writing.ie[13] and The Weekender.[14][15]
She is a member of Equity has presented for both BBC Radio Kent and the BBC's Politics Show.[16] Other television appearances have included The Heaven and Earth Show, Inside Out,[17] Just for Starters, Kilroy, Legal TV, Loose Lips, The Property Channel, Ready, Steady, Cook, The Russell Grant Show, The Salon, and The Wright Stuff.
She is a regular presenter / interviewer / panellist at various venues including the Guildford Book Festival,[18][19][20][21] Chipping Norton Literature Festival,[22] Belfast Book Festival,[23] and WhitLit (Whitstable Literary Festival) [24] with celebrities including Rachel Allen, David Baddiel, Lynn Barber, Tim Bentinck, Fern Britton, Kay Burley, Tania Carver, Mavis Cheek, Julian Clary, Ann Cleeves, Charles Collingwood (actor), John Crace (writer), Tim Dowling, Jenny Eclair, Katie Fforde, Judy Finnigan, Steve Furst, Joanne Harris, Veronica Henry, Victoria Hislop, Gill Hornby, Peter James, India Knight, Irma Kurtz, Helen Lederer, Kathy Lette, Richard Madeley, Lucy Mangan, Jill Mansell, Bel Mooney, Kate Mosse, David Nobbs, Amanda Ross, Penny Vincenzi, Fiona Walker, Jojo Moyes, Fay Weldon, Prue Leith and David Nicholls (writer).
Wenham-Jones was an interviewee Sue Cook for The Write Lines in conjunction with Talking Bookshelf[25] and National Short Story Week.[26]
As a professional speaker, she gives lectures and after-dinner talks including Women Speakers.[27] She has hosted the award ceremony for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, hosting with [28] hosting with: actor Tim Bentinck (2011), crime novelist Peter James.[29][30] (2012), Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan (2013), Darcey Bussell (2014), Barbara Taylor Bradford (2015) and Fern Britton (2016).[31][32]
She is also a competition judge for writing competitions including Flash 500[33] and is listed on Fantastic Fiction,[34] Dorothy Koomson's[35] and Random House websites.[36]
Awards
- 2013: Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year, shortlist, "Prime Time"
Bibliography
Novels
- Raising the Roof (2001)
- Perfect Alibis (2003)
- One Glass is Never Enough (2005)
- Prime Time (2011)
Writing guides
- Wannabe a Writer (2007)
- Wannabe a Writer We've Heard Of (2010)
Short Story Anthologies (contributor)
- Sexy Shorts For Christmas (2003)
- Sexy Shorts For Lovers (2004)
- Sexy Shorts For Chefs (2005)
- Sexy Shorts For Summer (2005)
- Café Olé Too Hot To Handle (2005)
- Shorts for the Beach (2006)
- Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2009)
- Diamonds and Pearls (2011)
Non-fiction (author)
- 100 Ways to Fight the Flab – And Still Have Wine And Chocolate (2014)
Non-fiction (contributor)
- Women Leading (2004)
- The You Are What You Eat Cookbook (2005)
- The Help for Heroes Cookbook (2009)
- Tweet Treats (2011)
References
- ↑ "Online Store - January 2017 - Latest Issue". Writers Online. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/4128398566_3bfa63ea32_o.jpg
- ↑ "legacythanetgazette.co.uk". Thisiskent.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Child, Lee (2010-06-28). "Indies storm People's Book Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Wenham, Jane. "Danger: A Man about the house | Express Yourself | Comment | Daily Express". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "Effects of depression | Society". The Guardian. 2005-08-06. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Jane Wenham-Jones. "Jane Wenham-Jones: I love to love | Global". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Helen Pidd, Amy Fleming and Jane Wenham-Jones. "Helen Pidd, Amy Fleming and Jane Wenham-Jones experience the health retreat | Travel". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Helen Pidd, Amy Fleming and Jane Wenham-Jones. "Helen Pidd, Amy Fleming and Jane Wenham-Jones experience the health retreat | Travel". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "legacythanetgazette.co.uk". Thisiskent.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Post (2005-09-18). "Tales of a Landlady: The rotters of Ramsgate". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Published at 12:00AM, September 18 2005 (2005-09-18). "The rotters of Ramsgate". The Times. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "Write What You Know? It's 'Prime Time' for Jane Wenham Jones". Writing.ie. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ " This website is for sale! - weekenderonline Resources and Information". Weekenderonline.net. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ " This website is for sale! - weekenderonline Resources and Information". Weekenderonline.net. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ Trudi Davies (2007-07-11). "Programmes | Politics Show | The End of the Pier Show?". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "Euroferries on BBC - Inside Out". Adem Djemil. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
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- ↑ "What's On: What's On news and reviews from across Surrey". Get Surrey. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ "What's On: What's On news and reviews from across Surrey". Get Surrey. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ↑ http://chiplitfest.com/authors.asp?authorid=3
- ↑ http://www.belfastbookfestival.com
- ↑ http://www.whitlit.co.uk
- ↑ https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F63508274%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-1GqqY&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=ff7700
- ↑ http://www.nationalshortstoryweek.org.uk/thewritelines.htm
- ↑ http://www.womenspeakers.co.uk/speakerprofile/141/Jane%20Wenham-Jones
- ↑ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/rona-romantic-novel-year-shortlists.html
- ↑ http://www.peterjames.com/appearances/2012/October
- ↑ http://blog.peterjames.com/2012/03/thrilling-romance-bookseller.html
- ↑ http://www.romanticnovelistsassociation.org/news/entry/iona_greys_letters_to_the_lost_wins_the_goldsboro_books_romantic_novel_of_t
- ↑ http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/63562
- ↑ http://www.flash500.com/index_files/JWJ.htm
- ↑ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/jane-wenham-jones
- ↑ http://www.dorothykoomson.co.uk/jane-wenham-jones-2
- ↑ http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/authors/jane-wenham-jones
External links
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- Jane Wenham-Jones: Official Website
- Jane Wenham-Jones: Official Blog
- Jane Wenham-Jones: Wannabe A Writer website
- Jane Wenham-Jones Twitter page
- Wannabe a Writer Twitter page
- Jane Wenham-Jones Facebook author page
- Wannabe group Facebook page
- Prime Time Facebook book page
- Jane Wenham-Jones on Goodreads
- Jane Wenham-Jones on LinkedIn
- YouTube compilation of talks by Jane Wenham-Jones
- Teresa Chris Literary Agency
- Morgen Bailey Interview with Jane Wenham-Jones
- Fiction is Stranger Than Fact Interview with Jane Wenham-Jones
- The Elephant in the Writing Room Interview with Jane Wenham-Jones
- Writers Choice Interview with Jane Wenham-Jones
- KD Grace Interview with Jane Wenham-Jones
- Chez Castillon Jane Wenham-Jones tutors
- Greatvine Writing advice site where Jane Wenham-Jones tutors
- hosting the 2016 RONAs with Fern Britton
- hosting the 2016 RONAs with Fern Britton