Belinda Jones
BornBelinda Cheryl Jones
(1967-12-20) 20 December 1967[1]
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom
OccupationNovelist
NationalityEnglish
Period1997–present
GenreFiction
Website
belindajones.com

Belinda Jones (born 20 December 1967) is an English writer.[2]

Biography

Jones was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent to parents Pamela (née Gwyther) and Trefor Jones.[3] She grew up in Taunton, Devon, and studied at the London College of Printing. Her first job was on the children's comic, Postman Pat.[3] At the age of 20, she moved on to become a feature writer on Woman's World. She spent four years working on More! magazine as a feature writer.[3] She has had work published in Elle, Empire,[3] FHM, Bliss, Company, and Cosmopolitan. In 1997 she moved to Los Angeles, but later returned to the UK where she wrote her successful first novel, Divas Las Vegas.[3][4] Her second novel was I Love Capri.[3] In 2009 she switched publisher from the Arrow imprint of Random House to Hodder.[5][6]

Jones is the co-founder of Notting Hill Press with authors Talli Roland and Michele Gorman.[7][8]

Her novels mainly fall into the women's fiction or "chick lit" categories, and usually combine romance and travel.[5][6] On the Road to Mr. Right is an autobiographical travelogue.[9][10]

Bibliography

  • 2001 – Divas Las Vegas[5]
  • 2002 – I Love Capri[5]
  • 2003 – The California Club[5]
  • 2004 – On the Road to Mr. Right[5]
  • 2005 – The Paradise Room[5]
  • 2006 – Cafe Tropicana[5]
  • 2007 – The Love Academy[5]
  • 2008 – Out of the Blue[5]
  • 2010 – Living La Vida Loca[6][11]
  • 2011 – California Dreamers aka Hollywood Calling[12]
  • 2012 – Winter Wonderland[13]'
  • 2014 – The Travelling Tea Shop
  • 2018 – Bodie on the Road: Travels with a Rescue Pup in the Dogged Pursuit of Happiness (Skyhorse)[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Belinda Jones" (in Dutch). BOL. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  2. ↑ "Belinda Jones". TV.com. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Catherine Jones (6 July 2002). "Interview: Mother, me and a tale of Capri; Belinda Jones tells Catherine Jones how her new novel 'I Love Capri' was inspired by her mother's pilgrimage to Wales". Western Mail. p. 14.
  4. ↑ "Divas Las Vegas". The Times. 30 August 2000. p. 13.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Victoria Gallagher (17 April 2009). "Jones makes move to Hodder". Bookseller. No. 5378. p. 15.
  6. 1 2 3 "Major sellers: women". Bookseller. No. 5421. 26 February 2010.
  7. ↑ Alison Flood (12 June 2013). "New press hits on 'third way' between traditional and self-publishing". The Guardian.
  8. ↑ Tom Tivnan; Felicity Wood (28 June 2013). "The third way". Bookseller. No. 5582. p. 18.
  9. ↑ Catherine Jones (29 June 2004). "Chick Lit cracks up". Western Mail. p. 1.
  10. ↑ Sam Scott (6 June 2003). "Looking for love in the Port City". Star – News. p. 1B.
  11. ↑ "On the coffee table. Living La Vida Loca, by Belinda Jones". The Mercury. 15 October 2010. p. 24.
  12. ↑ "Belinda Jones official website, biography section". Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  13. ↑ "News". Daily Record. 17 November 2012. p. 11.
  14. ↑ "Pets". Library Journal. Vol. 143, no. 21. 2018. p. 103.
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