1)    I believe in love, and when you’ve found it, in working hard to make it last. I’ve been married for over twenty years and we’re still ridiculously crazy about each other.

Jane Cable

Jane Cable

2)    My writing is inspired by beautiful British settings, places I love that I want my readers to be transported to. I’ve had some lovely reviews for Another You, saying that I’ve inspired people to visit Studland Bay. I’m thinking of asking the local tourist information office to stock my books!

3)    I am very proud to be a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. I joined when Endeavour Press acquired Another You and it’s the friendliest bunch of writers I’ve ever met.

4)    One of the best parts of writing a novel is when your characters come alive and begin to create the storylines themselves. It’s a very special kind of magic.

5)    I wouldn’t be where I am today without my mother. She always encouraged me and in 2011 made me enter The Cheesemaker’s House into the Alan Titchmarsh Show’s People’s Novelist competition. It reached the final and gave me the self-belief to take my writing seriously.

6)    The story is everything. You have to make the reader keep wanting to turn the pages. I had a lovely email from a man who’d been reading Another You until 2.15 in the morning and only stopped because the battery in his Kindle ran out and he’d left his charger in the car.

7)    My girlfriends mean the world to me. They’re a bright, characterful bunch and inspire the strong women I love to write about.

8)    I love Cornwall and later this year we’re moving there so that we can adapt our lives to give me more time to write. There’s something so special about the wild beauty of the north coast with its mining heritage starkly contrasting with its surfer-packed beaches. I’m a real water baby too and hope to spend time perfecting my bodyboarding and learning to kayak.

9)    At the moment I don’t have enough hours in the day to read, but if you’re looking for recommendations my best books of the last couple of years are Claire Dyer’s The Perfect Affair, Barbara Copperthwaite’s Invisible and Elizabeth Buchan’s I Can’t Begin to Tell You. Top of my TBR pile are Rosanna Ley’s Last Dance in Havanna and Elaine Everest’s The Woolworths Girls. Luckily I’m off on holiday soon so I should have time to enjoy them.

10) I’m a big supporter of the charity Words for the Wounded. Founded by author Margaret Graham it raises money through writing events, competitions and donations to improve the lives of wounded service personnel. In 2015 my local authors’ group raised £900 over a weekend by holding a series of bookish events and I’m donating £1 for every review of Another You on Amazon in the UK and in the US.