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Jayne Davis

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I was born in England, near the Welsh border, and lived in several places while I was growing up, including a spell in Singapore and in Malta. Malta was where I got hooked on historical romances - my parents rented a furnished house, and the owners had left most of their books there, including a whole set of Georgette Heyer novels.

Loving Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, I longed to write similar novels myself. I toyed with the idea several times over the years, but real life intervened and I've had several careers, including as a non-fiction author under another name. That wasn’t quite the writing career I had in mind…

So here I am, finally publishing my stories. I hope you enjoy them!
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I'm currently working on the fourth book in The Marstone Series, to be called The Fourth Marchioness. As usual, it is progressing …more
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I'm currently working on the fourth book in The Marstone Series, to be called The Fourth Marchioness. As usual, it is progressing more slowly than I'd hoped, but should be published early in the new year.
That will be all for the Marstone Series for the moment (unless new stories occur to me!). I have an idea for a completely standalone story, and another idea for a two or three book series, about men who are prisoners of war during the Napoleonic War and what happens when they return home.

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I didn't think of The Mrs MacKinnons as part of a series, but I do have one or two ideas for short stories or novell…more
Hi Joanna - thanks for the review!
I didn't think of The Mrs MacKinnons as part of a series, but I do have one or two ideas for short stories or novellas that might include some of the characters. (A lot of people liked Richard, and I'd love to write about Webb again!). But at the moment I'm concentrating on the Marstone Series.(less)
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