It’s December and although part of me doesn’t know where 2024 has gone (shouldn’t it still be early September?!), we’re now in the midst of what for many is the holiday season. After a busy year in life and writing, I’m set for a slower-paced December complete with a “happy holiday season bucket list” to ..read more

I’ve been looking at old family photos and it’s fun to see how certain characteristics continue through generations. From noses (unfortunately for me!) to height, ear shape and even gestures, I see many similarities between late relatives and myself and English Rose. For me, though, one of the most special links with those who’ve gone ..read more

Join me at the North Grenville Writers Circle (NGWC) on Monday, December 2, 2024 where I’m giving a free workshop about writing in multiple genres. Location: Tallman Room, North Grenville Public Library, Kemptville Norenberg Branch, 1 Water Street, Kemptville, Ontario, Canada. Time: 5.00 pm to 6:50 pm. Find out more about the NGWC here.   ..read more

Over the next few days, those of us in Canada, the UK, the United States and other countries mark Remembrance Sunday, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day and Veterans Day. These commemorations emerged following the First World War, when the Armistice agreement was signed between Germany and the Allies on 11 November 1918. Today, we remember and ..read more

As some of you know from my October newsletter and social media, my latest book as Jen Gilroy, A Rancher’s Return from Harlequin Heartwarming, was published earlier this week. It’s a sweet second chance contemporary western romance and although the fourth (and final) book in my Montana Carters miniseries it also stands alone. A Rancher’s ..read more

I spent the last few days of September in Toronto, Canada celebrating Harlequin’s 75th anniversary. It was a wonderful time of learning and socializing, and I returned home inspired and energized. Learning Attending authors took part in a day and a half of workshops led by Harlequin staff. I learned about how our book covers ..read more

Soul Mate Publishing, which released two of my Jen Gilroy small-town contemporary romances, The Wishing Tree in Irish Falls and A Wish in Irish Falls, sadly closes its doors on September 30, 2024. If you’ve purchased The Wishing Tree in Irish Falls and/or A Wish in Irish Falls for Kindle and haven’t downloaded them, be sure to do ..read more

I’m excited to be talking about my writing with the book club at St. John’s United Church in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 7.00 p.m. Although the club is opening their meeting to non-members, if you’d like to attend please RSVP to me at jen@jengilroy.com There will also be a door ..read more

After five long years when pandemic restrictions and then my own bout with Covid precluded travel, I’m finally able to visit England again this summer. It’s still and always will be, important to who I am as a person and writer and one of the places I call ‘home.’ And as I count the days until my trip, it’s all about what to do, who (and what) I’ll see and what to pack! What to do…In London, Norfolk and Manchester London In London, I’ll meet my British literary agent, Kiran Kataria of Keane Kataria Literary Agency for the first time in ‘real life’ rather than through a computer screen. With Ki ..read more

On X (formerly Twitter), Welsh author friend Tracy Rees posted recently that she has two desks, an “expensive oak-topped one” and a “cheap self-assembly one” she built twenty-three years ago and has “carried…from house to house…ever since.” I too have several desks but do most of my writing on an also “cheap self-assembly” desk. It’s one I bought as a postgraduate student at University College London in *mumble mumble* (but more than twenty-three) years ago! I got my desk in the summer sales at what was then British modern home designer Habitat’s flagship store on London’s Tottenham Court Road ..read more