Hi!
I’m Jenny and welcome to my woods.
My origin story starts in Essex and brought me to the North Somerset coast, where I live in woods filled with fae, chatting with dragons and falling in love at first sight, usually with a slice of Christmas chocolate log.
Wherever I am, there is cake.
A lover of autumn, history and the long-lost art of the simple chocolate cake, I have a degree in archaeology but couldn’t fully appreciate pottery shards until I turned forty.
Stories are what I know best.
I’ve been telling stories since I was very small when my mum would make them up for me, then we’d make them up together, until I grabbed a pencil, learned to spell ‘because’ and was away!
My fantasy writing started after a trip to the cinema, when Gandalf led us into the Mines of Moria and lit them up with his staff. For the first time in my life, my ever-chatty brain fell silent.
Although, before then there were vampires. Because, puberty.
Now there are hunters and warriors, witches and fae, sky pirates and dragons, a touch of romance, a sparkle of Christmas (the darkness is where fairy lights shine the brightest), falling madly in love with interesting people and the hunt for a murderer who thinks they’re clever but can’t outsmart a Scottish brownie.
Join me in the woods.
The campfire is ready and I’ve bought a fresh bag of marshmallows.
Mind your step and I would advise keeping to the path. You never know what might be lurking in the undergrowth. You should know that nothing here will hurt you.
Well, almost nothing.
The rules of the woods...
For Frodo!
Kindness, empathy, honesty and transparency. (There’s good in this world and it’s worth fighting for.)
We are the weirdos, mister.
Embrace the creativity.
Where we’re going, we don’t need dickheads.
No greedy, unempathetic scumbags.
I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.
Freedom and independence.
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