Welcome
My great passion is telling stories – and has been since I was just a girl sitting around a camp fire in the Australian bush, telling stories about girls and ponies to my fellow Pony Club members.
These days, my stories tend to focus on people, rather than ponies, and on romance and relationships.
I write light hearted romantic novels, mostly set in Australia – and short stories set just about anywhere that appeals to me. One of my short stories won the Romantic Novelists’ Association‘s Elizabeth Goudge Award, which was a great honour.
Do have a look around my website. There are some short stories for you to read, and for each of my novels, there’s a ‘book bonus’ with the story behind the book.
I’m always happy to hear from readers – so drop me an e-mail if you feel like saying Hi.
I hope you enjoy the site. – and do come back soon.
Janet
Read one of my short stories:
The Brown Pony
“Ladies and Gentlemen, a big round of applause please, for the under 13 years Girl Riders, now circling the ring. Leading the group is the winner, Joanne Harper, on her pony Sunbeam. Second is…”
From her seat in the rickety wooden grandstand, Carol watched the winner trot very sedately around the arena. Once safely through the gate, Joanne Harper’s control vanished. She flung herself to the ground and wrapped her arms around her pony’s neck. A smiling woman, her mother, received a quick hug too, but the pony got most of the little girl’s kisses, because the pony was the best thing in the whole world! Carol knew, because a long time ago, she was that girl with pigtails.
How many years was it? Carol didn’t even want to think about it. She took a deep breath, inhaling the heat and the dust. The taste of the Australian bush. She hadn’t realised just how much she missed it, until she stepped off the plane last week.
Read the complete story…
