Jacqui Penn writes under the pseudonym of Penny Appleton. She lives in England, but has worked and lived around the world. Her daughter, Joanna Penn (The Creative Penn podcast), helped her with the first books.

They say write what you know and Jacqui has chosen to write sweet romance. Her latest book is a senior romance, which I loved as it's not the typical romance you think about for this genre.

https://www.pennyappleton.com/

Penny Appleton home page

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In part B of the podcast, we discuss how to keep writing when times are tough.

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TRANSCRIPT

Stephen 0:51Today, I'm talking to Jackie Penn, who writes under the pseudonym of Penny Appleton. She writes sweet romance, and she writes sr, sweet romance, which I think is great. And I really wanted to talk to her. As an aside for everybody that is a writer listening to the podcast, her daughter is also Joanna pen, which I'm sure you've all heard of. When we did the interview and talked Jackie and I chatted for quite a while had a great time, and she suggested we discuss something other than just doing an interview. So you'll notice this interview is broken into two parts, and future interviews and podcast episodes are going to be broken into two parts. So I think, Jackie, for that great idea. So here's Jackie. And if you like the podcast, you like what you hear, please give the other episodes Listen, go check out the author's books, give the podcast some likes to help promote it to get more readers and more writers finding other new writers and readers finding other new books to read. Here's Jackie. All right. Well, today on the podcast, we have Jackie who writes us, Penny Appleton. Welcome to the podcast. Jackie.

Jackie 2:04Thank you very much, Stephen. It's a pleasure to be here and to hear your lovely American voice.

Stephen 2:11I feel the same way. I interviewed somebody from Scotland and my wife said Oh, let me talk to him. Is your wife Scottish? Oh, no, not at all. She's Finnish. Right. But she likes the accent. Very much, though. So. Alright. Well, Jackie, tell us a little bit about who you are. where you're from little bit about your background outside of writing.

Jackie 2:34Okay, well, I'm 73. That sounds very, very old. I was born in 1947. And thank you my writing and my background. I really am a country girl, not in the American sense of you know, thank God, I'm a country boy, but English country. So me and having worked and lived in the United States. I have lived in parts of the country like Boise and Idaho and Oregon. And English countryside is very rolling and gentle green hills and beech trees and oak trees and birdsong and plowed fields and horses and cows. And so I was brought up in that. And that's my favorite place to be really, and it's the background of the books that I write. So from there, I went to university in London, and became a teacher of English and drama. And I'm an introvert, but like many introverts capable of being an extrovert when you're on stage, to me, and lots of actors and actors, actresses, introverted, but they're capable of being extroverts. So my preferred way of relaxing is to read and to be very quiet. But as a teacher,