Jessica Hart

My early career, if you can call it that, was a haphazard one that included stints as foreign newsdesk secretary in London, cook on an Australian outback cattle station, TEFL teacher in Jakarta and interpreter on expedition in Cameroon - all places that featured as settings in some of my earliest romances. I first stumbled into writing as a way of funding a Ph.D. on the disposal of rubbish in the Elizabethan city (which is honestly more interesting than it sounds), and I ended up writing 60 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon. My first, A Sweeter Prejudice, was published in 1991 and my last, Mr (Not Quite) Perfect, in 2014. Best Made Plans (originally The Baronet's Wedding Engagement) was the second in the Royal Wedding Invitations series published by Tule in 2017 - and a chance to write with three other of my favourite romance authors, Liz Fielding, Sophie Weston and Anne McAllister. We had great fun plotting these books together! Since 2014, however, I have mostly been writing historical fiction/time slips as Pamela Hartshorne, sagas as Pamela Bell and I now have a fourth writing name for the upcoming Before the Crown as Flora Harding. I write non-fiction, too, and project edit illustrated books and histories. I live in York, although I also spend a lot of time in Scotland, Wiltshire and London. When not on a deadline or travelling, I love to walk, especially on the North York Moors, and my favourite ways to relax are talking, cooking and playing cards. If I'm lucky, I get to do all three at the same time. Some of my very earliest romances now have a new lease of life in the Jessica Hart Vintage Collection, perfect for anyone who'd like an escape back to innocent days of the early 90s! New books will be added in 2020 and the whole collection will be getting a revamp so keep an eye out for news of that - coming soon! To find out more about Jessica Hart, visit my website, www.jessicahart.co.uk, find me procrastinating on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jessica-Hart/197786216977996 or Twittering @JessicaHartXX