Jean Saunders

Jean Innes Saunders
Born Jean Innes
8 February 1932
London, England
Died 3 August 2011 (aged 79)
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
Pen name Jean Saunders,
Jean Innes,
Rowena Summers,
Sally Blake,
Jodi Nicol,
Rachel Moore
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Period 1974–Present
Genre romance, suspense
Spouse Geoff Saunders
Children 3
Website
jeansaunders.net

Jean Saunders, née Jean Innes (b. 8 February 1932 in London, England – d. 3 August 2011 in Weston-super-Mare, England[1]) was a British writer of romance novels since 1974, she writes under her married and maiden name, and also writes under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore. Jean also wrote, an erotic novel as Jodi Nicol and also published writing books.

Jean Saunders was elected the seventeenth chairman (1993–1995) of the Romantic Novelists' Association,[2] and she was the Vice-Chairman of Swanwick writers' summer school . She also is member of Romance Writers of America, Crime Writers' Association and West Country Writers' Association.[3]

Biography

Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she have lived in the West Country almost all her life.[3] She married with Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they have three grown up children.

After the publication of her first novel, Jean began a career as a magazine writer and had published around 600 short stories. She start to published gothic romance novels under her married and maiden name in the 1970s. In 1980s, she created, to wrote historical romances, two pseudonyms, her most popular, Rowena Summers and Sally James. In 2004, she began to used the penname Rachel Moore.

In 1991 her novel, "The Bannister Girls," was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award.

She lived in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she writes full-time.[3]

She died on Wednesday 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness on a holiday earlier that year, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital.[1]

Bibliography

Some of her novels were reedited under different names.

As Jean Saunders

[4]

Single novels

Alexandra Best PI

  1. Thicker Than Water (2000)
  2. Illusions (2000)
  3. Deadly Suspicions (2003)

Non fiction

As Jean Innes

[5]

Single novels

Omnibus in collaboration

"A Reluctant Bride" in A Bride's Desire (1994) (with Karen A. Bale, Christine Dorsey and Sonya T. Pelton)

As Rowena Summers

[6]

Cornish Clay Saga

0. A Safe Haven (1996)
1. Killigrew Clay (1987)
2. Clay Country (1987)
3. Family Ties (1988)
4. Family Shadows (1995)
5. Primmy's Daughter (1998)
6. White Rivers (1999)
7. September Morning (1999)
8. A Brighter Tomorrow (2000)

Caldwell Saga

  1. Taking Heart (2000)
  2. Daisy's War (2001)
  3. The Caldwell Girls (2002)
  4. Dreams of Peace (2002)

Elkins Saga

  1. Shelter from the Storm (2005)
  2. Monday's Child (2005)

Chase Saga

  1. Long Shadows (2007)
  2. Distant Horizons (2008)

O'Neil Saga

  1. Chasing Rainbows (2009)
  2. Pot of Gold (2009)

Single novels

As Sally Blake

[7]

Single novels

As Jodi Nicol

Single novels

As Rachel Moore

[7]

Cornish Clay Saga

9. The Soldier's Wife (2004)
10. The Farmer's Wife (2005)
11. A Cornish Maid (2006)

Single novels

References and sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Weston Mercury Article
  2. ↑ Past RNA Officers
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jean Saunders's Webpage
  4. ↑ Jean Saunders at fantasticfiction
  5. ↑ Jean Innes at fantasticfiction
  6. ↑ Rowena Summers at fantasticfiction
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sally Blake at fantasticfiction