Susan Jones – Writer

My Writing Blog

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.

Category: Competitions

  • To be in the draw, which will take place on Friday all you need to do is leave a comment at the end of this post. Why would you like to read it? It’s set in the midlands, and heroine is Molly, who is left to run the hat company while Issac goes off to…

  • News and jottings from this month at the writing desk. Happy May time, or Beltane if you’re into the witchy woo stuff. I love all things mystical, and have lots of tarot packs, several crystal balls, and tons of crystals I wear and use all the time. Also numerology is getting quite addictive. Today I…

  • We all start somewhere, and for me, before I could even write by the age of 5, I was an avid reader, and knew I wanted to write books. Fair to say it’s taken me a while to get to ‘books’ but the amount of poetry and jottings and diary entries I used to do…

  • There was a time when you could always find a magazine that published filler items. I started off writing a letter to Woman’s Realm. We had some giant thistles in the garden. I sprayed them gold and silver and used them as Christmas decorations. That gave me my first cheque for my writing £5. It…

  •   This is the story that won Eddie Walsh’s final Emerald competition. Theme: – Nobody will ever know. I came first from 65 entries, so I was thrilled as you can imagine. It’s been a while ago, but it’s a story I’m proud of and thought you might like to read it. When the cheque…

  • There’s nowhere like Warwickshire when the bluebells appear in the woodlands. Ann and Sophie have the same thoughts on a warm sunny April afternoon. Sophie is on the hunt for fairies. You never know when they may appear and glad to see she found them. Good to see magic in the air. Hope you’re enjoying…

  • I started back at the gym this week. On Wednesday morning and again this morning, I went on the rowing machine, treadmill, bike and then the cross-trainer. After that mat excercises and stretches to cool down. I’m lucky to have a personal trainer, who says, no do those planks for a bit longer, and no,…

  • O Christmas Tree

    Christmas traditions

  • We have a winner of the Redington paperback book.

  • Here it is…

    The collection of Redington stories are now published into one volume…