Hello!
Hi, my name's Jo and I've never written a blog before so if I do this wrong someone tell me please π. I just really want to introduce myself. I live in the UK with my husband, two daughters and horse, although the furry dude doesn't actually live with us but close by.
I started writing, well as a kid, but I really developed an interest in story telling at university. I started writing a short story to entertain my two best friends (we were in the sci-fi society together) and ended up with three novels - don't ask it's a long story that involves a Rover 100, several notebooks and a LOT of ink cartridges!
After uni writing pretty much disappeared from my world. I was working in admin and assumed my storytelling.was done. Then, in 2015, I had my first daughter. I decided to write her a story. My Dad, who works in advertising and has always drawn cartoons.for fun, agreed to illustrate it and Squirly Squirrel was born.
Squirly may have sat as a stapled bit of paper forever if not for a friend of my, the wonderful Harper Fox, who told me about self publishing. I decided to strap on my big girl pants and try it. I published Squirly and went on with life.
When I had my second little girl it seemed only right that she get a story too. Now though I had read tons of kids picture books and, more importantly, my eldest had firm ideas about what she liked - and didn't.
Combining my eldest's love of Dinosaurs and her picky eating, I came up with There's a Dinosaur in my Soup. Again Dad was drafted in to illustrate it and soon enough it was published too. On a roll I wrote T-rex in my toothbrush straight away.
With three books published and a pandemic lockdown to contend with I decided to try giving writing my attention and see if I could make it my career. Now I'm combining freelance work with my own projects.
I am writing for my kids and hoping others like my books too. So far the reviews I have had are all good and I'm so very pleased people are enjoying them. Anyway that's me. Please feel free to ask me stuff and I'll pop back here and let you know if I'm working in something.
Oh and anyone who did review my books, thank you so very much, Jo x
I started writing, well as a kid, but I really developed an interest in story telling at university. I started writing a short story to entertain my two best friends (we were in the sci-fi society together) and ended up with three novels - don't ask it's a long story that involves a Rover 100, several notebooks and a LOT of ink cartridges!
After uni writing pretty much disappeared from my world. I was working in admin and assumed my storytelling.was done. Then, in 2015, I had my first daughter. I decided to write her a story. My Dad, who works in advertising and has always drawn cartoons.for fun, agreed to illustrate it and Squirly Squirrel was born.
Squirly may have sat as a stapled bit of paper forever if not for a friend of my, the wonderful Harper Fox, who told me about self publishing. I decided to strap on my big girl pants and try it. I published Squirly and went on with life.
When I had my second little girl it seemed only right that she get a story too. Now though I had read tons of kids picture books and, more importantly, my eldest had firm ideas about what she liked - and didn't.
Combining my eldest's love of Dinosaurs and her picky eating, I came up with There's a Dinosaur in my Soup. Again Dad was drafted in to illustrate it and soon enough it was published too. On a roll I wrote T-rex in my toothbrush straight away.
With three books published and a pandemic lockdown to contend with I decided to try giving writing my attention and see if I could make it my career. Now I'm combining freelance work with my own projects.
I am writing for my kids and hoping others like my books too. So far the reviews I have had are all good and I'm so very pleased people are enjoying them. Anyway that's me. Please feel free to ask me stuff and I'll pop back here and let you know if I'm working in something.
Oh and anyone who did review my books, thank you so very much, Jo x
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