I love a great story and writing was always a joy, even at an early age. My greatest influence was Agatha Christie. I wanted to be just like her but when I discovered romances, it was love at first read.

In 1990 I founded Romance Writers of New Zealand, basically to get in touch with other people who wanted to write romance. Little did I know then that the original 10 Auckland members would snowball into an international organisation. We now have about 280 members including Australia, the USA and the UK and South Africa.

I also love anything with an Egyptian background. THE book of my heart, an ancient Egyptian time travel is now finished and will be published by Highland Press sometime soon.
  

The Sabine Connection won third place in the Treble Heart Books inaugural awards.

Beats a Wild Heart, set on Cornwall's Bodmin Moor, won best published contemporary and came third in the Lories.

Yesterday's Dreams won the Silver Lining award. It was published as Hidden Dreams, but unfortunately, the company no longer exists.

Beats A Wild Heart is published by Highland Press and available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Another title, A Place of Healing, is now available digitally published by The Wild Rose Press, trade paperback end of January

Jean Drew

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