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Hello, and welcome to my website ~ here you will get a view on my books and life as a published author. It’s been a long journey to getting here ~ finally I am now writing full time and hope you enjoy what you find here. If you want to get in touch, follow the links, and I’ll get back to you soon.

Susan Jones writes romantic drama with a touch of humour, and historical sagas as Lydia King. She lives in North Warwickshire, and loves walking through the beautiful woodlands where she lives, and gardening and reading are her pastimes.

Would you like to comment?

I love commenting on blogs, and it’s great when people reply to mine, thanks Patsy for this lovely chatty badge.  It reminds me of the comics I used to read with the speech in them.  What was your favourite comic?  Mine was The Beezer, it was like a big newspaper and was full of great characters.  Each week I’d be wondering what they’d be up to.  Sometimes I had the Dandy or Beano but it was Beezer that caught my attention the most.  There was Ginger who had a mop of red hair, bendy Pearl the elastic girl with long arms, and baby bud, and Lord Snooty.  I changed to the Diana when I grew up a bit.  That was good as well.  It’s the characters that make the story.  So I’m working on building up my characters for stories, ones that the reader will care about.

People I’m passing this award on to are Vanessa, Rosalie and Gail.  I know it should be more than that, but never mind, I’m not a rule follower, except when it comes to short story competitions.

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21 responses to “Would you like to comment?”

  1. Vanessa Chapman Avatar
    Vanessa Chapman

    Thank you kindly for the award!

    I used to like comics too when I was little, I never really went for the girly type ones like Bunty, I preferred the ones like you mentioned. I think my favourite was Whizzer and Chips, do you remember that one? After that I progressed onto Jackie and Blue Jeans.

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  2. susanjanejones Avatar
    susanjanejones

    Yes I remember those. I read my friend’s Jackie but didn’t have it myself. We used to like reading the problem pages.

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  3. Rosemary Gemmell Avatar
    Rosemary Gemmell

    Well done on your award, Suzy – I’m off to collect mine shortly! Although I enjoyed all the comics you mentioned, my absolute favourite was Bunty which I got from the first issue. Loved the annuals too!

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Yes I loved the longer stories in Bunty Rosemary, thanks for popping by.

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  4. Rosalie Warren Avatar
    Rosalie Warren

    Thanks for the award, Susan. I loved the Beano when I was young (especially The Bash Street Kids and Dennis the Menace), and then moved on to ‘June and School Friend’.

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Hi Rosalie, yes the boys ones had better stories didn’t they? I’d forgotten about June that was great oh I must go on ebay and get some. Brings back memories.

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  5. Lynne Hackles Avatar
    Lynne Hackles

    My brothers used to have the Beezer and The Beano so I read them as well as my copy of Girl. Years later I was filling in those lovely word bubbles in your picture and writing for comics. Shame they’re all disappearing now.

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Yay I’m glad you loved the Beezer as well Lynne. How exciting to write for comics. They will come back into fashion I’m sure, everything does go full circle. I’d forgotten about girl.

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  6. Paula R C Avatar
    Paula R C

    My was Jackie… I loved copying the drawing of the lovers kissing. My friends would get me to draw them kissing their boyfriends in the same style with speech bubbles.

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      You must have been a great artist if they asked you to do that Paula. A lot of my friends had Jackie. It was a bit raunchier than Diana wasn’t it?

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  7. Sally Jenkins Avatar
    Sally Jenkins

    I liked Bunty too – I seem to remember there was a paper doll to cut out and dress on the back page.

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      That’s right Sally there was. The only thing that put me off Bunty was the name of it. I think it’s because it reminded me of Billy Bunter in the old black and white films. Good comic though.

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  8. Teresa Avatar
    Teresa

    Congratulations on the award, Sue – I used to like Beezer, but Bunty was my favourite x

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  9. susanjanejones Avatar
    susanjanejones

    I think Bunty seems to be the most popular comic for girls Teresa, I must have been a bit of a tomboy. I liked girly things but found them a bit embarassing. Think it’s because I wanted to act like a boy to please Dad who always wanted to show us boyish things to do. He bought us a football subuteo game one Christmas…

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  10. Patsy Avatar
    Patsy

    My friend used to get Jackie and we did all the quizzes. Stuff like ‘does your boyfriend really love you’ (even if we didn’t have a boyfriend at the time)

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  11. susanjanejones Avatar
    susanjanejones

    I remember those Patsy, we took them so seriously as well didn’t we?

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  12. Debarghya Mukherjee Avatar
    Debarghya Mukherjee

    I would love to comment on others post. 🙂

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Hi Debarghya, thanks for popping by.

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      1. Debarghya Mukherjee Avatar
        Debarghya Mukherjee

        🙂

  13. houari fodhil Avatar
    houari fodhil

    hello i am really fortunate and proud that i am watching bbc programs

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Good Houari. Keep on watching and learning, well done.

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