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Jen Black


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Newcastle upon Tyne, The United Kingdom
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Jen's home town is Newcastle upon Tyne in the north east of England. She lived within sound of Durham Cathedral bells until she was seven, then moved to Stockton where she attended Grangefield Grammar School, and later went to Newcastle University as a mature student and gained an Honours degree in English Language & Literature. Work in various industrial, public and academic libraries in the north east followed, including a stint as library manager at Gateshead College for a number of years.

She updates her blog three times a week: http://jenblackauthor.blogspot.com
and can also be found on Twitter and Facebook as well as Goodreads.

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Jen Black isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

no longer A Good Thing To Do.

 It may be that selling books on Kindle (otherwise Amazon KDP) is no longer A Good Thing To Do. Sales for the last year have not been anything like they have in the past. Amazon tells me I have clicks, for which they charge, but the charge for clicks outweighs the profit from sales.

KENP  (page reads)are also just about vanished. My career as an author is just about over even though I am 40,000

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