Jane

P. F. Jeffery was raised in the part of Southend-on-Sea that is furthest from the beach, and claims to have been consigned to bizarre wilderness realms – both physical and psychic – ever since. The author’s day jobs have mostly been in under-valued, ill-paid fields largely associated with women – including care work and data input. This experience has proved both grist and grit to a novelist’s mill. Professionally published work has also tended to be ill-paid, including factual articles, short stories, role playing material and at least two erotic novelettes. (The writer had three erotic novelettes accepted for publication, but doesn’t know whether the third one ever appeared. The rascally publishers didn’t bother to inform or pay the author when issuing the second.) Much of this output has appeared under a variety of pseudonyms, including Martine Bell, Fiona Duncan and others long since forgotten. Phoenix-like, from this unpromising mulch, arises The Warriors of Love, a series of twelve novels, of which Jane is the first.