Penny Jordan
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Penny Halsall, neé Penelope Jones (b. November 24, 1946 in Preston, Lancashire, England) is a best-selling English author of over 200 romance novels. She start writting regency romances as Caroline Courtney, now she writes contemporany romances as Penny Jordan and historical romances as Annie Groves (her mother's maiden name). She also signed novels as Melinda Wright and Lydia Hitchcock. She sales of over 67 million copies of her books.
Widow, she lives in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, surrounded by her pets.
Penelope "Penny" Jones born at about seven pounds on November 24, 1946 in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, who died aged 85, and his wife, Margaret Louise Groves Jones, 86, who passed to Penny her Scots Celtic heritage. She has a brother, Anthony Jones, and a sister, Prudence "Pru" Jones.
She had been a keen reader from the childhood. Her mother leaved her in the children's section of our local library whilst she changed her father's library books. Her story-telling career began at the age of eight when she began telling original bedtime stories to her younger sister.
Her all-time favourite books are those of Jane Austen, Dorothy Dunnett, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare's plays and poetry and The Bible. After reading a serialised Mills & Boon book in a woman’s magazine, she fell in love with the hero. Penny was eleven and she quickly became an avid fan.
Penelope left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. In her early days, she spent fourteen years working as a shorthand typist in Manchester.
Penelope Jones married with Steve Halsall, an accountantand a “lovely man”, who smoked and drank too heavily, suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. They didn't have children, but she has a bakers dozen of assorted godchildren nieces and nephews.
Penelope writes from an office in her beautiful mock Tudor house in Nantwich, Cheshire home that she shares with her dog, Sheba, and cat, Posh.
By her early twenties, Penelope was writing for herself, but her writing career began in earnest when she was 30, encouraged and supported by her husband, who bought her out of his own money at a time when he could ill afford it the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first books.
She entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, an agent, who was looking for a new-style Georgette Heyer, contacted the R.N.A..
In 1979, she published her first novels as Caroline Courtney. She publised under this penname 25 regency romances.
From 1981 to 1983, she singed air-hostess romps as Melinda Wright and thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock.
n 1981, Mills & Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey signed as Penny Jordan. Since then, almost 70 million copies of her 167 Mills & Boon (or Harlequin) novels have been sold worldwide.
Her favourite Penny Jordan's Series is The Perfect Crightons. The surname for Crighton family came from her late mother in law as it was her family name prior to her marriage. The Crighton live in the fictional town Haslewich, inspired in Nantwich, the Hasle is a play on her own married surname.
Since 2003, she returned into historical novels as Annie Groves (She has adopted her mother's maiden-name). Penelope gains much of her inspiration from human interest stories in the news as well as her own family history. She adapted a story told by her grandmother Elsie Jones in Ellie Pride.
Penelope runs a writing group where she helps other aspiring writers to develop their craft, pointing them to agents and publishers who might be interested in their work. She is also active in women's charities in her native England.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Jordan
