Jean G. Goodhind
Jean G. Goodhind is a popular writer of women’s fiction, romance and comedy. For many years she owned and ran a haunted guest house on the outskirts of Bath and was one of the founder members of the Bath Hotel and Restaurant Association. Her experiences inspired the international bestselling Honey Driver series. She has won a BBC Radio award for scriptwriting. She also writes women’s fiction as Lizzie Lane and has writes a regular column for the Western Daily Press.
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When she’s not writing or glued to her Kindle, Gaynor enjoys listening to music, playing the piano, walking, travelling, and eating far too much chocolate.
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The Galway Homicides - set in and around Clifden on the Wild Atlantic Way
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I now live in Topeka, Kansas, with my wife (bless her), no pets (don't like 'em), no children (all moved out), and with many gallons of home-made wine bubbling as I write.
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She is also an award winning writer of short fiction, having won the Gothic Fiction prize for short fiction by Go Gothic. She was the runner up in The New Writer’s writer of the year award and her work has been short listed and Highly commended by Writers’ Forum magazine. She was also long-listed for The Willesden Herald International Short Story Compet -
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Maureen Peters was born in Caernarvon, Wales, on March 3, 1935, and was married and divorced twice; she has two sons and two daughters. In addition to biographical fiction, historical romances, and mystery novels written under her own name, other noms de plume include Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Levanah Lloyd, Belinda Grey, Elizabeth Law, Judith Rothman, and Sharon Whitby.
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Lex Young
Lex Young is a horror writer hailing from Wiltshire, UK, who also likes to merge into the genre of crime and sci-fi.
Lex's first publication, A Christmas Number One, hit #1 in two separate Kindle store charts during its first month of release, and was also featured on BBC Radio in 2022.
His follow up story, V: Garcia, is currently averaging a review score of 4.9/5* on the Kindle store.
Most recently, his short story collection, Silent Fright, became a bestseller on the Kindle store.
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