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Joan Ellis

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I spent years penning letters from dogs. As an award-winning copywriter, you have to be adaptable! I worked with talented people including Paula Yates, Jennifer Saunders and Harry Enfield. With a full-time job in a London advertising agency and a new baby, I did what any right-minded woman would've done and set up a comedy club. I even appeared on the same bill as Jo Brand. Once. As a university lecturer, I taught comedian Noel Fielding all he knows about advertising. I also tutored Wordsworth's great-grandson in the art: Buy a host of golden daffodils. Get a yellow one, free! I also wrote a column in a fashionable glossie about my young daughter. She is eighteen now and has never read a word of them. A Londoner, I now live beside the sea-s ...more

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Joan Ellis I was an advertising copywriter for 30 years working on blue-chip accounts. I had to deliver the goods. It was great training for novel-writing. I wri…moreI was an advertising copywriter for 30 years working on blue-chip accounts. I had to deliver the goods. It was great training for novel-writing. I write every day, and rewrite the next. For me, the trick is to keep writing. It's like anything, the more I do it, the more I enjoy it. I love what I do.(less)
Joan Ellis Playing with words. Having fun with the characters and waiting to see how they grow and develop. The best bit is when they take over and write the boo…morePlaying with words. Having fun with the characters and waiting to see how they grow and develop. The best bit is when they take over and write the book for me.(less)
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The Killing of Mummy's Boy

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I am Ella. Buy Me

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DIED BLONDES 23 February 2019

Died Blondes – Marilyn Monroe. Ruth Ellis. Icon. Murderer. Infamous Women. Famous last words. What have these two so-called dumb blondes got in common apart from a bottle of peroxide? Plenty.


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Joan Ellis Bringing up baby? Bringing up baby alone? Here's a little gift from me to you. Hope it makes you smile.


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Joan Ellis When you're waiting for a review and it finally comes and you click on it and it's five stars! That!

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New Review: The wonderful I Am Ella. Buy Me by @JoanSusanEllis. I gave it five stars, it's terrific! http://wp.me/p4XUGt-3n


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Joan Ellis Fancy a 'mesmerising' and 'outstanding' thriller for just 99p?

GUILT by Joan Ellis 99p. Offer ends March 16. Kindle only.

‘You died a month before your fifth birthday. You were probably dead long before Mum downed her third gin with Porky Rawlings.’

Seven-year-old Susan is alone with her younger brother when he dies of an overdose. The guilt informs the rest of her life. When it threatens to destroy not only her but also her relationship with her new baby, she sets out to discover the truth. What she finds is as disturbing as it is magical.


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