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Absolutely Fabulous line-up for BroadstairsLit in 2019

January 21, 2019 janewj

Here at BroadstairsLit, we are excited to announce our 2019 programme of events – featuring a dazzling array of personalities from comediennes to men of the

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ChipLitFest 18 – it was fab!

May 1, 2018 janewj
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Write around the Isle – turnips, thrillers and special guests

March 25, 2018 janewj

Sir Tony comes to town for BroadstairsLit There were turnips on display when Baldrick fans packed The Pavilion on 10th March to welcome Sir Tony Robinson

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Write Around The Isle and BroadstairsLit

September 8, 2017 janewj

Literary gatherings have been popping up left, right and centre – I go to quite a few of them myself – and there are now

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Didn’t I have a lov-er-ly time…

July 3, 2017 janewj

Another to add to my list of fab festivals I have worked for. Had a great time at the Buckingham Literary Festival last weekend, interviewing three

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The Archers come to town…

June 25, 2017 janewj

So fab to host the Archers event last Friday at the Pavilion in Broadstairs with ace scriptwriter Keri Davies, the gorgeous Annabelle Dowler (Kirsty Miller),

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Rum de tum ti tum de dum….. Calling all Archers fans!

June 17, 2017 janewj

Looking forward to this very much. Are you an Archers fan? Do you fancy a day trip to Broadstairs? Tickets from here . Would be brilliant

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2017 janewj

This first appeared in Woman’s Weekly Fiction in 2010. Can’t say much has changed…. 🙂 Happy Valentine’s Day! You might think that someone who has

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Jane remembers 2016

January 9, 2017 janewj

At midnight on 31st December I was travelling by car through the bottom of Broadstairs.  In Ramsgate, minutes earlier, they’d been spilling out of pubs,

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Champagne de Romance at Chez Castillon

August 18, 2015 janewj

It is always a joy to be at Chez Castillon.  Next course up – could it be for you? – Write and Sell Short Stories. Write

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Plain Jane 140815 – Bra-vellous project

August 14, 2015 janewj

If we live in a small world then Thanet is microscopic. Hold forth in the pub about the bloke from the garage and it will

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Plain Jane 250714: Royalty, politics, tourism and how not to waste money

August 1, 2014 janewj

Originally published last week but I’ve been away teaching at the fabulous Chez Castillon… HAPPY Birthday Prince George and congratulations on being able to walk.

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Plain Jane 300514: My view on term-time holidays

May 31, 2014 janewj

RECENT figures have shown that 24,000 children each day are taken out of school for a family trip. If I still did the school-run, it

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The joy of Chez Castillon

April 8, 2014 janewj

April 2012 – the first time… You never really know someone until you live with them. A truth universally acknowledged by generations of women who’ve

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How time flies… a big hand for Carole Blake!

November 7, 2013 janewj

How time flies… a big hand for Carole Blake! My small tribute to the Queen of Shoes and her Fifty Years in Publishing. It was

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I couldn’t have put it better myself…

October 18, 2013 janewj

A lovely blog post here from the immensely talented Clare Mackintosh (watch out for her debut novel next year – it’s going to be astonishing)

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Plain Jane 280813: Everyone has a book in them…

August 30, 2013 janewj

THEY say everyone’s got a book in them and I say: Sometimes it should stay there! The explosion of ebooks and self-publishing has made everybody

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Happy Birthday Morgen Bailey!

August 19, 2013 janewj

A quick post to say a Very Happy Birthday to the fabulous Morgen to whom I owe a great deal. This is the woman who

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The Wannabe a Writer TV Show

August 15, 2013 janewj

Here at last…. Am all very thrilled – and not a little nervously twitchy 🙂 – to announce the launch of the first half of

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Plain Jane in the Isle of Thanet Gazette from Friday 21st June

June 23, 2013 janewj

Bit late getting this up here as have been away to the Winchester Writer’s Conference where I had the enormous privilege of hearing Julian Fellowes speak!

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We have a winner!!!!

May 19, 2013 janewj

100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition. Judged by Janie Millman, Morgen Bailey (and me). ….  It was very, very difficult to choose. We wrangled

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100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition – Top 5

May 12, 2013 janewj

Following on from last weekend’s Top 12, we are pleased to announce the creators of the Top 5 Flab-fighting tips, complete with the tips themselves, again in

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Plain Jane: With beaches like ours, why are we still languishing in deprivation?

May 10, 2013 janewj

Plain Jane with Jane Wenham-Jones: With beaches like ours, why are we still languishing in deprivation? I BLAME my colleague Mike Pearce. I go to

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100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition – Top 12

May 5, 2013 janewj

Taa-Raaa – we have the first set of results of the Fight the Flab Competition, judged by Janie Milman, co-owner of the fab Chez-Castillon, Morgen-with-an-e-Bailey

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The Ab Fab ChipLitFest :-)

April 23, 2013 janewj

Well what a lov-er-ley time I had at this year’s Chipping Norton Literary Festival – a treat indeed. You would never believe the festival is

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RNA & Plain Jane 1st March 2013: The sartorial choices of the stay-at-home writer

March 1, 2013 janewj

Bit lax on the old blogging front lately but will catch up soon with the excitements of Richard and Judy at the book awards –

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er… not on the radio after all…

February 10, 2013 janewj

Quick one to say that they have technical problems over at Radio Litopia so I won’t be on this evening after all… Will post new

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Shortlists and radio shows

February 8, 2013 janewj

There – don’t they look pretty? Prime Time with the covers of the other lovely books shortlisted for the Romantic Comedy category of the RoNas.Very proud

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Today’s Plain Jane

February 1, 2013 janewj

Hello and  Happy Friday. We have progress of sorts. My column in the Isle of Thanet Gazette is finally online (hurrah) but does not yet

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Overly excited and thrilled

January 23, 2013 janewj

Am suitably delighted to report that Prime Time has been shortlisted for the Romantic Comedy category of the RoNas today. This is a massive honour  of

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100 Ways to Fight the Flab

January 3, 2013 janewj

I know I’m a bit of a show-off but even I wouldn’t display my bottom without good reason. These photos were taken as possible cover

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Top Comment-leaver of 2012…

January 1, 2013 janewj

Yes, excitement, drum roll, etc. I am pleased to announce that… Tony Tibbenham has the doubtful glory of being crowned the most-frequent-commenter on this blog in

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Plain Jane. Isle of Thanet Gazette. Friday December 21st 2012

December 22, 2012 janewj

This might not make entire sense to those not blessed with living on the Isle of Thanet but perhaps you would would wish for similar for

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Plain Jane: Playing the Party Season

December 1, 2012 janewj

As some of you may know, I write a fortnightly column – alternating with My-Mate-Mike (he who hovers just to the right of Genghis Khan and

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Thank you Sarah Salway!

November 20, 2012 janewj

Very pleased to be featured on Sarah Salway’s website and thanks Sarah for the plug for Thursday’s event at Canterbury, Waterstones too. Also thank you Edith for

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Plain Jane column 16 November – public speaking & event with Lesley Cookman

November 16, 2012 janewj

As some of you may know, I write a fortnightly column – alternating with My-Mate-Mike (he who hovers just to the right of Genghis Khan and

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For those who don’t like tea…

November 12, 2012 janewj

You’ll be glad to know I have found one I don’t like either. It has to be a thumbs down for the teapigs‘ exotically-named tung

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pure lemongrass, silver tips white, but no mint thank you…

November 9, 2012 janewj

I used to drink so much coffee it gave me blotches. In the decade that I gave it up entirely (I now have the odd

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Tea(pig) anyone?

November 7, 2012 janewj

Those nice teapig people did a spot of sponsoring at the Guildford Book Festival – where I first discovered the teabag-with-real-tea-in-it – and have now kindly

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Guildford Day Six

October 23, 2012 janewj

Yes a bit of a delay there but Saturday I was doing a workshop in HMP Send, Sunday I had taken to my bed with

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Guildford Day Two

October 20, 2012 janewj

The end of the second day of Guildford Book Festival and tonight was Peter James and Ann Cleeves. Fab interviewees both – and both with

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And off to Guildford….

October 18, 2012 janewj

It’s begun – I am here in my Guildford for my annual stint in the interviewing chair and. as always, thrilled at the prospect. Last

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Back from Chez Castillon….

October 16, 2012 janewj

I came back on Saturday, in fact, but it took  the rest of the weekend to sort the faint air of bachelor pad – why

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Slacker

September 21, 2012 janewj

Am all behind on this blogging lark – as I am on so many things – but I have a small array of excuses. Been

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Room for a little one…

August 20, 2012 janewj

Room, indeed, for two little ones – or even two quite big ones (bedroom sizes generous). Due to a cancellation, there are now a couple

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Hot tips for Writers – am in the spotlight with Writer’s Choice

August 16, 2012 janewj

The nice people at Writer’s Choice have put me in their ‘spotlight’. Thank you PDR! 🙂 If there’s nothing much on TV, you can read

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Greetings from (not-so) sunny Swanwick…

August 15, 2012 janewj

Actually it has been sunny but just happens to be p***ing down as I type. I am here at the long-running Swanwick Writers’ Summer School in

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Dancing on the table…

July 28, 2012 janewj

Yes, I’m afraid I did. I wasn’t going to. Thought I’d grown out of it, and all that. But as the boys told me, it’s

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A night with the choir

July 27, 2012 janewj

The last night of Writer’s Holiday is the biggie. Wonderful to see all the chaps again. Below is a quick snap of the glorious Cwmbach

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Barry’s on the ball…

July 26, 2012 janewj

To my talk at Caerleon and a spot of audience participation from Barry Adams who gamely agreed to attempt to balance on my exercise ball

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Greetings from Sunny Wales

July 25, 2012 janewj

And it really is sunny! Am here in Caerleon at Writer’s Holiday  where  yesterday people were dropping by the wayside with heat exhaustion cos nobody’s

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RNA Conference at last

July 18, 2012 janewj

   Did two stints at the splendid  RNA conference this year, brilliantly organised as ever by Jan Jones and Roger Sanderson. On Saturday, a panel

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How to lose a day….

July 16, 2012 janewj

Intended to post suitable witticisms and photos from RNA conference this morning but day went to Ratsh*t when someone drove into me necessitating endless conversations

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Trying to travel light to Penrith

July 13, 2012 janewj

Off to the fabulous RNA conference – or at least I hope it will be fab – I hadn’t realised quite how far Penrith was

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Loose Muse

July 12, 2012 janewj

No, I am not trying to summon the dead, lead the gospel singing or appeal to the Almighty*. This is me attempting to impart some

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*Columnist of the Year*

Very thrilled with my #KPBA Kent Columnist of the Year Award for my #lockdowndiary column in The Isle of Thanet News.

The jury: “Jane’s lockdown diary was head and shoulders above the other entries and at a time when we were all left floundering, it was something really powerful to latch on to.”

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