Jean Chapman

Jean began her writing career as a freelance journalist before goingon to write fiction. She is the writer of some romance novels and many shortstories. Her debut novel "The Unreasoning Earth" and "The Red Pavilion" wereboth shortlisted for the Parker Pen Romantic Novel of the Year Award, shealso obtained the RNA Major Award.

Jean Chapman was elected the twenty Chairman (2001-2003) of the Romantic Novelists Association and she is the three-time President of the Leicester Writer's Club. She is a lecturer in creative writing.
 She has taught and lectured and spoken widely on creative writing and tutored on-line for Nottingham Trent University. She has acted as a reviewer and appraiser for East Midlands Arts and Readers' Digest.

Jean Chapman lives in a small village in Leicestershire, England.