: About Me

As a child, my passion was writing but the job I aspired to was as a teacher. I recall, age six, teling my teacher,

"I want to teach, but I don't want to teach little boys and girls; i want to teach BIG boys and girls."

And I did. For 12 years I was a teacher, college lecturer and youth worker. I loved it for a long time, before I found that I was doing more paperwork than teaching. That is when I decided to give up teaching to follow my dream of becoming a writer.

Helium helped.

I tested the writing waters while I was stil teaching by writing articles on Helium. I was amazed and excited to find my work ranked well. I never looked back. Within a month of joining Helium I was getting professional writing jobs and within 2 months of that, I had so much work I became a full-time writer, editor and proofreader.

My website is www.jaybeejourno.com

and from there you can join up to receive my newsletter full of writing tips and hints.

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

useless trivia that will one day find its way into my books

My parents always told me ...

do what makes you happy

My childhood ambition ...

to be a teacher

My favorite memory ...

the overwhelming love I felt at holding my nephew for the first time

Why I write ...

because the words just have to get out

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

latest book by Cecilia Aherne; Diagnosis Murder; always Westlife

My first job ...

teacher

My best moment ...

selling my first articles at Helium

My inspiration ...

My Dad

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