Janet Scaife's Blog
May 28, 2018
Never say Never
Hi, I'm Janet Scaife. Sorry to have picked one of James Bond's tag lines if he his watching. But I have said those three words so many times in the last few years.
I began writing back in 1991 when I won the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writer of the year award. I wrote several books back then, Romances and Family Sagas. But then ill health took over and made the physical act of writing difficult and I gave up. At least I gave up professionally, I never stopped doodling with words, suddenly scribbling the odd poem, or just letting the stories that are constantly coming to me filter through my brain take shape.
During all that I was a constant visitor to hospital for one treatment after another. Then, at the grand old age of 66, I found the hospital visits had diminished and I had time on my hands. I also found I could sit comfortably for longer periods and so I decided Never say Never was going to be my motto, spoken with a great deal of determination.
I returned to writing and Aphrodite's Child was born and published on Amazon in October of last year. Casanova's has followed and I have every intention of there being a long line of new books to follow on before I reach my final nemesis.
I have always written stories that are based around a romance. But that does not mean there cannot be any excitement in other areas with tragedy, deceit and, in the next one, even history finding a way into a contemporary story.
I am also a psychic medium and I like to bring the spiritual into my books, I feel it adds a different dimension to my stories. It can also add quite a bit of excitement, but nothing scary. I do not turn my books into supernatural ghost stories.
My birth certificate might say I shall be 70 come October and my body might have creaks and groans, but my mind has not caught up with the legal certificate, or the aches and pains. Inside I am 31, and I am going to stay 31, aided and abetted by the heroines in my stories, for a lot more years to come.
I began writing back in 1991 when I won the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writer of the year award. I wrote several books back then, Romances and Family Sagas. But then ill health took over and made the physical act of writing difficult and I gave up. At least I gave up professionally, I never stopped doodling with words, suddenly scribbling the odd poem, or just letting the stories that are constantly coming to me filter through my brain take shape.
During all that I was a constant visitor to hospital for one treatment after another. Then, at the grand old age of 66, I found the hospital visits had diminished and I had time on my hands. I also found I could sit comfortably for longer periods and so I decided Never say Never was going to be my motto, spoken with a great deal of determination.
I returned to writing and Aphrodite's Child was born and published on Amazon in October of last year. Casanova's has followed and I have every intention of there being a long line of new books to follow on before I reach my final nemesis.
I have always written stories that are based around a romance. But that does not mean there cannot be any excitement in other areas with tragedy, deceit and, in the next one, even history finding a way into a contemporary story.
I am also a psychic medium and I like to bring the spiritual into my books, I feel it adds a different dimension to my stories. It can also add quite a bit of excitement, but nothing scary. I do not turn my books into supernatural ghost stories.
My birth certificate might say I shall be 70 come October and my body might have creaks and groans, but my mind has not caught up with the legal certificate, or the aches and pains. Inside I am 31, and I am going to stay 31, aided and abetted by the heroines in my stories, for a lot more years to come.
