Welcome to Jenny Haddon’s website

Jenny Haddon is Chairman of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. [www.rna-uk.org] She experiments with all sorts of different styles and genres but she is pretty consistently optimistic. Which is another way of saying she can’t bear to give her characters an unhappy ending.

She thinks that a society that is ashamed of romance is a society in trouble. [see page two] She believes in friendship and P G Wodehouse.

JH is also the person behind author Sophie Weston.

Sophie Weston writes Tender Romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon. Her books are published in over 100 international outlets and 24 languages, the last time she counted.

Basically an optimist too, she says that however grounded and successful you think you are, falling in love guarantees pain, anxiety and serious embarrassment - and that’s what her books are about. It’s only the last few pages that make it all come right.

In a novel that came out in the UK in December 2005, the heroine is an aggressive market researcher with a taste for high concept shoes. The hero is a sheikh with a conscience. So much of a conscience, in fact, that he kept saying, “I don’t think that’s ethical” every time Sophie came up with a really good plot wheeze. As a result, he stuck around for 12 months longer than she or her editor wanted. Sophie calls him [and the book] El Sodh.

Sophie believes in music, moonlight and make up, lashings of it.