Jean Saunders
Jean Saunders, née Jean Innes (born 8 February 1932 in London, England – d. 3 August 2011 in Weston-super-Mare, England) was a British writer of romance novels since 1974, she writes under her married and maiden name, and also writes under the pseudonyms of Rowena Summers, Sally Blake, and Rachel Moore. Jean also wrote, an erotic novel as Jodi Nicol and also published writing books.
Jean Saunders was elected the seventeenth chairman (1993–1995) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and she was the Vice-Chairman of Swanwick writers' summer school
. She also is member of Romance Writers of America, Crime Writers' Association and West Country Writers' Association.
Biography
Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she have lived in the West Country almost all her life. She married with Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they have three grown up children.
After the publication of her first novel, Jean began a career as a magazine writer and had published around 600 short stories. She start to published gothic romance novels under her married and maiden name in the 1970s. In 1980s, she created, to wrote historical romances, two pseudonyms, her most popular, Rowena Summers and Sally James. In 2004, she began to used the penname Rachel Moore.
