· A bit about the author

Now. My name (in case you haven't already guessed) is Jenny Sullivan.

I'm Welsh, and I used to live in Monmouthshire. However, at the moment I’m happily living in another Celtic area ~ in Brittany, in a house called ‘Ynys Haf’. I love Bretagne (or Breizh as the Bretons call it) but visit Wales often to visit schools and libraries ~ and because I get homesick. I have a lovely husband (Rob) and three gorgeous daughters, Kirsty, Tanith and Stephanie. Kirsty works in London as Education Officer in a museum, and in July 2006 she and Art, her partner, presented me with a beautiful new grand-daughter, Daisy. Tanith works in London as an Operations Manager for a large chain of stores. Stephanie married her primary school teacher fiancé Conall in June 2005, and is enjoying her new job as an 'Living History Interpreter' at the Navan Centre in Armagh, Northern Ireland, and acting with the Armagh Theatre Group, and Tanith and Darren, who is a brilliant guitar teacher, were married in Raglan in September 2005.

When I'm not writing (something I've been doing since I was 8 years old) I'm usually found in a school somewhere, or a library, either helping kids to write stories and poems in workshops, or talking to them, telling them all about me and my writing.

And before you ask, yes, I love being a writer. It's the best job in the world. Second best is being able to visit schools and talk to and workshop with the kids. That's great.

Current projects

The latest part of the ‘Magic Apostrophe’ series, ‘Nobody Asked Me!’ was published in September 2006 and there’s an extract from it on this site. The other two parts, ‘What Part of No Don’t You Understand?’ and ‘Tree of Light’ are already written, but have no publication date as yet. I’ve also written another in the ‘Gwydion’ series ~ ‘Gwydion’s Quest’, so you can see I’ve been quite busy! ‘Tirion’s Secret Journal’, a Civil War novel set at Llancaiach Fawr, was published in 2005, and if you'd like to read an extract of that, you'll find it in the main menu. A companion novel ~ not a sequel ~ to ‘Tirion’, ‘Troublesome Thomas’, was published at the end of July 2007. This book is aimed more at boys than girls. Much to my delight (and amazement) ‘Tirion’ won the Tir Na N-Og Award in 2006.

‘A Guardian What?’ was published in March 2006. It’s about a girl called Tali, who is being bullied at school. She wishes for help ~ but doesn’t get exactly what she expected! You can read an extract from that by going back to the main menu.

There's also one called "The Really Weird Boy Next Door" and couple of other books in the pipeline ~ you'll have to wait and see!

I’m also working on an adult fantasy novel, and a teenage novel, ‘Mad as a Box of Frogs’ which have had to take a back seat lately to other projects ~ but I’ll get back to them eventually, I’m sure! Perhaps my hardest project is a two-book series on WWI and WW2, which I am currently trying to find time to research!

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