Jan Jones (novelist)
Janice Rosemary Jones is a British former software engineer, now a writer of romantic fiction and short stories. Her debut novel, Stage By Stage, was published in July 2005 and won the Romantic Novelists' Association Joan Hessayon Award the same year.
In her first career as software engineer, she was the architect of the SuperBASIC programming language for the Sinclair QL personal computer while working at Sinclair Research in the early 1980s. Before joining Sinclair Research, she worked at British Gas and the Royal School of Mines as a programmer and lecturer.Technical
- QL SuperBasic: The Definitive Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1984
Fiction
Single novels
- The Jigsaw Puzzle
- Just Desserts
- Local Secrets
Anthology in collaboration