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: Garden News

  • Congratulations to Sally J, the winner of Murder in the Village. Alan drew your name out of the pepper pig pot a while ago.     Your signed copy will be on it’s way next week if you could email your postal address please. Or p.m me on facebook. Well done. Thank you to everyone…

  • Here’s what’s coming soon, and there will be a giveaway on the blog, so watch out for that. Looking forward to the RNA conference in July, and meeting up with other pocket novelists and romatic authors. I’m busy writing my next story, which hopefully should be finished before long. I’m on chapter 10 of 15,…

  • We’re fully stocked with salad leaves. At the moment it’s all year round lettuce, spinach and rocket leaves available in the kitchen garden. And growing on we have yellow courgettes, mini munch cucumber, tomatoes, money maker are my favourite variety. As well, we have normal cucumber, green courgettes, dwarf beans, and dwarf peas, lots of…

  • Are you seeing signs of springtime around and about? Here’s a few pictures I captured in the garden earlier that show it’s only a matter of time before we have an explosion of colour and prettiness abound. Hope you enjoy the array of springtime flowers. Do you remember I was going to have a wardrobe…

  • Just back from a few days in the English Riviera. This time we found time to go on the Torquay Eye, that’s the view from the top. We also had chance to check up on the country estate, it was in a bit of a state, but the gardens are fabulous. Anybody know where it…

  • From the oxford dictionary The universe seen as a well-ordered whole. ‘he sat staring deep into the void, reminding himself of man’s place in the cosmos’  A system of thought. ‘the new gender-free intellectual cosmos’ An ornamental plant of the daisy family, which bears single dahlia-like flowers and is native to Mexico and warm regions…

  • My latest kindle read, A Factory Affair, will be available in paperback later this year. A story set in 1970’s Warwickshire, with a Hat Factory at the centre of the story. The paperback will have a different cover, but this   I’ve chosen for now with the hearts on the front. Enjoy the story if you’re…

  • Here’s our wedding photo from 2008. The reason I’m putting this here is because when I updated Facebook to put that I’m married, it immediately assumed I meant we’d got married on that day. So it doesn’t know much does it? I’m 12,000 words into the next book in the Redington/Country Matters series. This one’s…

  • Hello, friendly bloggers, hope your weekend is going well. I’m catching up with writing and doing some knitting – making a tea cosy from some scraps of wool. Reason being, I’ve just finished reading this book. It’s one my sister, lent to our mom, and she lent it to me. We all like knitting, so…

  • I’m having a good writing week with a new Alfie dog story out, Martha knows best, and a letter in Writing magazine, and a piece on the lovely Lynne Hackles page, Random inspiration people. Thanks, Lynne for buying my book as well. Also Redington is now available in a book shop in Walsall, if you…