Janette

I started my working life as a sewing factory machinist, making high-end garments for Bradford’s equivalent of Harrods. It helped me develop my love of dress design, which became entirely a pastime when I turned to secretarial work. Most lately I concentrated on theatrical costumes for my husband’s Mumming group, though I also made my daughter’s gothic wedding gown and an intricate cathedral-length christening gown, among other things.
Other pastimes have included bohdran drumming in folk sessions, jive-dancing and gardening, though my love of creative writing, which goes as far back as I can remember, rules over all. I initially kept to short works, including two mumming plays which have been performed at folk festivals nationally (one of them goes back out next year).

I expanded into book-length works several years ago, after I had an idea for a time-travel novel, aimed at mid-range children. It became clear I needed guidance, and that is when I joined Writers Workshop Cloud and attended their York Festivals of Writing. My writing, and genre choice, has evolved quite a bit since then, and I love that I am still able to keep in touch with some of my Cloudie friends here, in the Den.