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Jane MacKenzie

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Jane MacKenzie has lived an exceptionally adventurous life, working in such far-flung corners of the world as the Gambia, Bahrain, and Papua New Guinea, and Switzerland and France nearer to home.

She is as much at home teaching in an African village as organising the research budgets of Nobel scientists, and is a natural linguist, picking up languages wherever she has lived, to complement the fluent French from her first degree in French Language and Literature.

She is an entrepreneur, an international expert in education, and latterly helped transform the UK Government’s Office at CERN in Geneva during two years as its Head. In her fifties Jane turned to writing novels, for a new challenge, and to fulfil a long-held dream.

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Jane MacKenzie The block for me doesn't come from not knowing how to continue a story, but from wondering whether this is a story people will want to read. It's self…moreThe block for me doesn't come from not knowing how to continue a story, but from wondering whether this is a story people will want to read. It's self-doubt that's the killer. You get over it by staying connected with other writers and the wonderful reading community out there, and thinking about what they love to read and why.(less)
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Where to now?

I've absolutely loved writing my three books set in
the heat of French and Spanish Catalonia. And the latest, Mediterranean Summer, is still taking all of my attention after its launch. But I know that readers want to know that there is more to come, and we writers are always a book or so ahead of ourselves in publication.

So what do you write to follow the Catalonia series? A completely different Read more of this blog post »
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