Jodie James has worked in an old folks home, sold toys in a department store, had a brief job in a chocolate factory, worked as a waitress for a sports centre, and years ago was a feature writer for a now defunct teen magazine. She is eternally grateful the sealed section involving an interview with a to-be-disgraced sex therapist never made it into print. Not surprisingly, she loves reading! She reads romance from Nora Roberts to Jane Porter, suspense from Brad Thor to Joel Rosenberg, inspirational fiction from Robin Lee Hatcher to Francine Rivers, and chick lit from Helen Fielding to Sophie Kinsella. She now writes cosy novels about love, romance and emotion, and is thankful she can now write the kind of books she loves to read. She makes her home with her family – and two guinea-pigs who have taken possession of the back yard.