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My website is www.janejohnsonbooks.com and there you can find an email contact form: do write - I love to hear from my readers and always reply!
I update and blog regularly about writing, publishing and cooking Moroccan food (my husband is a Moroccan chef).
I am from Cornwall and I've worked in the book industry for 20 years as a bookseller, publisher and writer.
In 2005 I was in Morocco researching the story of a family member abducted from a Cornish church in 1625 by Barbary pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa (which formed the basis for THE TENTH GIFT), when a near-fatal climbing incident (which makes an appearance in THE SALT ROAD)made me rethink my future! (The whole story is told on my website in 'Inspirations')
I went home, gave up my office job in London, sold my flat and shipped the contents to Morocco. In October of that year I married Abdellatif, my own 'Berber pirate', and now we split our time between Cornwall and a village in the Anti-Atlas Mountains.
I still work, remotely, as Fiction Publishing Director for HarperCollins and am the editor for (among others) George RR Martin (GAME OF THRONES), Sam Bourne, Dean Koontz, Robin Hobb, Mark Lawrence and Raymond Feist.
I was responsible for publishing the works of JRR Tolkien during the 1980s and 1990s and worked on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, spending many months in New Zealand with cast and crew. Under the pseudonym of Jude Fisher I wrote 3 bestselling Visual Companions to the films, and I'll be doing the same for the 2 HOBBIT movies. I have also written several books for children, the latest being GOLDSEEKERS.
