Author bio

 

Janine is from West Yorkshire in England. She has been writing since girlhood, firstly in the form of heroine based comic strips.

She developed an early taste for horror when, aged about nine, she’d sneak the Pan Books of Horror from her auntie’s bookshelves to be devoured in secret. When she's not writing she's teaching, her students ranging from prison inmates and ESOL beginners to Foundation Degree writers.

Janine’s literary work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Even the Ants Have Names, Diamond Twig Press, Under the Brdge, a Centre for Northern Studies publication, Braqemard, Hasty, Corvus and Krax magazines (more to come in Krax).

Turning her hand to horror, her short fiction has featured in The Screaming Book of Horror, Noose and Gibbet Press and in the 5th edition of the Horror Library anthologies by Cutting Block Press (This one shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award for ‘Excellence in an Anthology). Janine's story Baby-Trap, which made it onto Ellen Datlow's Longlist for Best Horror of the Year also featured alongside the likes of John Burke (The Sorcerers) Charlie Higson (best selling author & Fast Show fame) and Robin Ince (the Infinite Monkey Cage) in The Screaming Book of Horror. 

Starting out as a literary writer, Janine received a Northern Promise Award (Northern Arts) and mentoring by renowned and surreal author, Sara Maitland. In 2009 she had a short play read at The Courtyard Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse. Her first play, A Minor Catastrophe, was shortlisted for the BBC comedy script competition Falling About.

Janine is currently adapting her Northern Promise Award novel, Perfecting Beverly, into a horror novel.

 

After a long love affair with the North East of England Janine is back living in West Yorkshire with her family and dog, Candy. Like those most famous of Yorkshire writing lasses, The Brontes, Janine gravitates towards the moors, for inspiration and peace enough to dream up the next big scare. 

 

 

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