Jane Wenham-Jones

Wenham-Jones began her writing career in 1995 and has published novels, short stories, non-fiction articles and two Wannabe writing guides, in which, in "Wannabe a Writer", she coined the phrase 'Writer's Bottom'.

More than a hundred short stories have been published in magazines across the world including Active Life, Bella, Best, Candis, Chat, More, My Weekly, The People's Friend, Pulp Fiction, Take a Break, Take a Break Fiction Feast, Woman, Woman's Weekly, Woman's Realm, and Your Cat. A selection of these stories have been reprinted in Australia, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, and The US.

Her short stories have also appeared in fiction anthologies including Café Olé Too Hot To Handle, Diamonds and Pearls, Loves Me, Loves Me Not, and the Sexy Shorts Charity Series.

Non-fiction contributions include The Help for Heroes Cookbook, Tweet Treats, Women Leading, and The You Are What You Eat Cookbook.

Wenham-Jones has regular columns inWriting Magazine,[1] and is an occasional contributor to her local paper, The Isle of Thanet News. She has written, or contributed to, articles in The Bookseller,[2] The Daily Express,[3] Family Circle, The Guardian,[4][5][6][7] The Isle of Thanet Gazette (a weekly column from 2001-2015),[8][9] My Weekly, The New Writer, Psychologies, Scarlet Magazine, She, The Sun, Sunday Express,[10] The Sunday Times,[11] The Times,[12] Woman, Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly, Writing.ie[13] and The Weekender.[14][15]

She is a member of Equity, has presented for both BBC Radio Kent and the BBC's Politics Show.[16] Other television appearances have included The Heaven and Earth Show, Inside Out,[17] Just for Starters, Kilroy, Legal TV, Loose Lips, The Property Channel, Ready, Steady, Cook, The Russell Grant Show, The Salon, and The Wright Stuff.

Wenham-Jones was an interviewee of Sue Cook for The Write Lines in conjunction with Talking Bookshelf[18] and National Short Story Week.[19]

As a professional speaker, she gives lectures and after-dinner talks including for Women Speakers.[20] She has hosted the award ceremony for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, hosting with[21] hosting with: actor Tim Bentinck (2011), crime novelist Peter James[22][23] (2012), Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan (2013), Darcey Bussell (2014), Barbara Taylor Bradford (2015), Fern Britton[24][25] (2016), Prue Leith[26] (2017), Richard Coles[27] (2018), Alison Weir (2019), and Jenny Eclair[28] (2020).

As well as hosting events at Guildford Book Festival,[29] Chipping Norton Literature Festival,[30] Belfast Book Festival,[31] Buckingham Lit Fest,[32] and Whitstable Literary Festival (WhitLit),[33] Jane is a founding member of, and regular interviewer for, BroadstairsLit.[34]

Jane is listed on Fantastic Fiction,[35] Dorothy Koomson's,[36] Random House,[37] and Harper Collins[38] websites.

• 2013: Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year, shortlist, "Prime Time"

Novels

• Raising the Roof (2001)
• Perfect Alibis (2003)
• One Glass is Never Enough (2005)
• Prime Time (2011)
• Mum in the Middle (2018)
• The Big Five-O (2019)

Writing guides

• Wannabe a Writer (2007)
• Wannabe a Writer We've Heard Of (2010)

Short Story Anthologies (contributor)

• Sexy Shorts For Christmas (2003)
• Sexy Shorts For Lovers (2004)
• Sexy Shorts For Chefs (2005)
• Sexy Shorts For Summer (2005)
• Café Olé Too Hot To Handle (2005)
• Shorts for the Beach (2006)
• Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2009)
• Diamonds and Pearls (2011)

Non-fiction (author)

• 100 Ways to Fight the Flab – And Still Have Wine And Chocolate (2014)

Non-fiction (contributor)

• Women Leading (2004)
• The You Are What You Eat Cookbook (2005)
• The Help for Heroes Cookbook (2009)
• Tweet Treats (2011)

• Jane Wenham-Jones: Official Website
• Jane Wenham-Jones: Official Blog
• Jane Wenham-Jones: Wannabe A Writer website
• Jane Wenham-Jones on Goodreads
• Teresa Chris Literary Agency