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Jill Marshall is a British writer. She emigrated to New Zealand in 2003 but returned to England in December 2012. Her works include the
Jane Blonde Jane Blonde is the eponymous heroine of the Jane Blonde series of young adult novels by Jill Marshall. Jane Blonde is a James Bondesque spy, who is sent on missions and equipped with (often disguised) gadgets. Reviewers have praised Marshall's act ...
and Doghead series of children's novels, as well as several novels for women termed 'chick lit'.


Biography

Jill Marshall received a Masters' in History from
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in 1987. She worked in commerce and in HR for a large telecoms company for 14 years. She then quit her job to pursue a Masters' in Writing for Children at Winchester University, which she received in 2002. Jill Marshall migrated from the United Kingdom to New Zealand in 2003, where she ran a manuscript assessment service called Write Good Stuff. In 2011, Marshall published and promoted the picture book ''Curly from Shirley: The Christchurch Dog'' from which a percentage of the profits were to go to
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charity in the wake of the
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, which also led to the formation of her publishing company Pear Jam Books. Following these efforts she was named by New Zealand's ''Next ''Magazine as its
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2011 in arts and culture for her contribution to the local literary scene. Jill later went on to publish works by seven local authors under her publishing company Pear Jam Books before launching an on-line training programme which included the signed up authors having their selected work in progress published and marketed with Pear Jam Books. Marshall left New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom in December 2012, later closing Pear Jam Books and leaving multiple publishing contracts with local authors in limbo. After rights to their work was reverted, many authors went on to sign publishing contracts with mainstream publishers, or successfully self-published. She has one daughter, Katie.


Bibliography


Children's books


Jane Blonde

* ''Jane Blonde: Sensational Spylet'' 2006 * ''Jane Blonde: Spies Trouble'' 2006 * ''Jane Blonde: Twice the Spylet'' (2007) * ''Jane Blonde: Spylet on Ice'' (2007) * ''Jane Blonde: Goldenspy'' (2008) * ''Jane Blonde: Spy in the Sky'' (2008) * ''Jane Blonde: The Perfect Spylet'' (2008) * ''Jane Blonde: Spylets are Forever'' (2009)


Doghead

* ''Doghead'' (2009) – also published as ''Jack BC and the Curse of Anubis'' * ''Doghead Bites Back'' (2010)


Other

* ''Kave-Tina Rox'' (2009) – picture book * ''Matilda Peppercorn: Switch'' (2013) – also published as ''Matilda Peppercorn: Manx''


Novels for adults

* ''The Two Miss Parsons'' (2008) * ''As It Is On Telly'' (2009) * ''The Most Beautiful Man in the World'' (2010) * ''Fanmail'' (2015) * ''Pineapple'' (2015)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Jill Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of Winchester British expatriates in New Zealand British women novelists 21st-century British novelists British children's writers British women children's writers 21st-century British women writers