Each month we will be featuring a different author. At this time they are just picked at random. But if you have a suggestion please CONTACT us and we will be happy to add it the following month.

This months author's spotlight shines on an author that we have met recently via the internet. Though none of us here have read any of her books yet. We did find a lot of great comments and reviews online praising her work. We have as follows her short biorgraphy. And we hope to add some reviews of her works in the near future. So enjoy and take the time to take a look at some or all of her books. And if you have already read some of her books we would love to hear from you, all comments are welcome.

Born in Derbyshire in 1964, Jane Welch was educated at Repton Prep School in Derbyshire and three separate public schools at a time when each was making the awkward transition from boys only establishments to co-ed schools.

While happily playing the role of 'angry young woman', she revolted against the public schools' Oxbridge system and immediately after leaving school married Richard, a 'rebel without a cause' whom she had disastrously embraced at her first public school.

After working in Heffers Booksellers for a short while and running her own small business, she pulled Richard out of publishing and together they spent five winters teaching skiing in Soldeu, Andorra in the Pyrenees. Summers were spent less idyllically labouring in circumstances that would have been familiar to Tess of the Durbervilles, giving the impetus to achieve her childhood dream of writing. She completed her first novel, The Runes of War whilst in Andorra but after HarperCollins made an offer for that and the rest of the Runespell Trilogy writing took over.

The Runes of War was published in Dec 1995, The Lost Runes in October 1996 and The Runes of Sorcery in May 1997. Though very happy and thankful for all the support and guidance provided by Jane Johnson and Joy Chamberlain at HarperCollins the opportunity to join John Jarrold and his new list at Simon & Schuster with her second trilogy, The Book of Önd, was impossible to ignore. The Lament of Abalone was published on June 1^st 1998 the second volume is due for early 1999 and the last in early 2000.

She is just completing the last in this trilogy and has recently written a short story Out Of Avalon for her German publisher Droemer to feature in Out of Avalon, an Arthurian anthology with Terry Pratchet, Marion Zimmer Bradley and others.