Author: Jenn J McLeod

Australia's nomadic novelist tours in a purple and white caravan called Myrtle the Turtle. Come home to the country: House for all Seasons (#5 top selling novel in 2013), Simmering Season (2014), Season of Shadow and Light (2015), The Other Side of the Season (2016), A Place to Remember (2018), House of Wishes (2020) The Tides That Lie (2024)
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Jenn’s race tips for aspiring writers


NOVEMBER
Wow!
What a month.
Love it!

This time last year I was writing my first words of my novel House For All Seasons. Another 50,000 words later and it is finally in the hands of Curtis Brown Lit Agency – woo hoo! So I have joined up with the RWA 50k in 30 days program again in the hope that I can do the same with book 2.

November is the month of dreams for more than writers like me. Those involved in the Melbourne Cup Day and those who dream of a big win at the TAB will put everything on the line for the race that stops the nation.

What I DON’T want to do this year is replicate is my appalling Melbourne Cup day results from last year. Yikes!
But I’m hoping with horses like these: ‘So You Think’, ‘Precedence’ and ‘Maluckyday’, there is a winner or two in there.
What do you think?

For RWA last Nano I gave advice to writers about running your own race – and for once I listened to myself ! LOL You can see it here. http://writeinjune.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-race.html.
Have a great month everyone.

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Who am I?

Inspired as always by some great Aussie authors, I decided to reposition myself (oh, that sounds a bit uncomfortable!)

I love tags like Bronwyn Parry and Helene Young’s: “Gripping romantic suspense in Australia’s wild places” and Fleur McDonald and Fiona Palmer’s “Heart-warming sagas of love and life on the land”.

So I thought…how can I capture the essence of my women’s fiction novels.
I came up with these which I kinda like.

Come home to the country with Aussie author Jenn J McLeod
or
Jenn J McLeod: Women’s fiction set in small towns on the edge of Austalia’s big country.
or
any variation of the above!

Then of course there’s the author pic. I was going to try kissing a horse like Mandy Magro’s picture (if you haven’t seen it, you’ll find this new Penguin author on face book. It’s a fantastic photo) but the last time I got that close to a horse I nearly lost my nose – yes it was a little sunburned and probably resembled a tasty carrot!) So no horse for me.

Oh, the things I do to get out of writing LOL