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Jane Holland is an award-winning British poet and novelist, and a proud mother of five amazing kids. The middle child of romance legend Charlotte Lamb, she grew up in Essex and now lives in beautiful rural Cornwall. As Jane Holland, she writes poetry, thrillers, historical suspense and is now also a 'Harlequin Presents' Mills and Boon author! Not content with all that, she also writes commercial women's fiction as Betty Walker (the highly popular Cornish Girls wartime sagas), Victoria Lamb, Elizabeth Moss, Beth Good and JJ Holland, among others. A little odd.

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Jane Holland Firstly, Janet, thank you so much for taking the time to tell me how much you loved FORGET HER NAME. It means a great deal to me. I actually came up w…moreFirstly, Janet, thank you so much for taking the time to tell me how much you loved FORGET HER NAME. It means a great deal to me. I actually came up with the idea several years ago, before the big wave of 'sister' thrillers swept the charts. But at the time I submitted the idea, my editor didn't like it. So it was shelved. Later, she changed her mind and asked me to write it after all. By then 'sister' books were everywhere, and I was a little concerned people would see it as me jumping on a bandwagon. But I did my best, and wrote it in two months, so quite quickly. I can't immediately recall the 'spark' that led me to the idea, but I suspect it came out of an even earlier 'sisters' story I had been writing 3-4 years ago but also shelved, that time because the plot ran aground. That one was about twin sisters, a light romantic suspense novel. I probably had that story in my head and started wondering, as writers do, 'What if ...?' and that's where the basic idea came from. Maybe one day I'll work out how to fix that earlier story and keep going with that one too, as the set-up was very different to FORGET HER NAME. Thanks so much for contacting me! Jane (less)
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How To Write A Book Series

Tomorrow, my fourth book in the popular Cornish Girls wartime saga series, A Mother’s Hope for the Cornish Girls is published! HOORAY!!!

I write these books under one of my other pen-names, Betty Walker, largely to keep them separate from my romances, thrillers and other historicals, so readers are never disappointed.

Writing a series that has become so popular has taught me some useful skills in wr Read more of this blog post »
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“That’s the beauty of running. It purges the soul.”
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“Five years isn’t so much. It’s not even a box set of Buffy. That show ran for seven seasons.”
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“She is smiling too but the smile does not reach her eyes.”
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