E J Jackson
I’ve been a bookworm for as long as I can remember, and have loved science fiction in all its forms for about as long! I grew up in the small Hampshire town of Aldershot.
By 1977 I had brought together a disparate group of Star Trek fans, a year later I was producing my first newsletter and fanzine. In 1980, I founded the official Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Appreciation Society (still going), producing, writing and editing the quarterly newsletter for two years. I also organised one-day events, bringing fans, actors and special effects crew together. I’ve been a girl groom, a factory worker, a shop girl, a purchasing assistant and an accounting technician. I’m a wife and mother (my son is at University, studying Archaeology). During what I now think of as my ‘wilderness years’ (creatively speaking) I forgot all about writing, illustrating and creating. In 2005, ‘Dr Who’ was rebooted, and I rediscovered my inner geek. It took two more years before I started writing again, and four years of writing fan-fiction for my own amusement before I began to realise that I wanted to write something original. |
I began ‘All Our Tomorrows’ in late 2011, finished the first draft in early 2012 and decided to get professional feedback. This encouraged me to study creative writing, and to date I’ve taken two courses with Faber Academy, another with The Writers Workshop, and am about to start a screenwriting course (also with Writers Workshop). I’m still working on ‘All Our Tomorrows’, have another novel in the planning stage (‘Who Killed Maggie Wren’) and am about to self-publish my first short story collection, ‘The Journey and other short stories’.
I have finally found my niche, and cannot now imagine not writing every day.
I have finally found my niche, and cannot now imagine not writing every day.
The Journey and other short stories
science fiction
Coming soon: A debut collection of short stories by EJ Jackson - mysteries with a science-fiction twist ‘The Journey’ - Young widow Eva is injured in an underground train crash. When she and fellow passenger Neil emerge from the underground tunnel, they discover that London has been attacked, and the population -including Neil’s wife and young children – has scattered. But Eva soon realises that all is not as it seems. ‘Gideon’s Road’ - Finding himself in a ditch on a lonely country road, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, a young man finds shelter with elderly widow Alice on her small farm. Taking the name Gideon, he discovers that the country has been decimated by a virus, and comes to accept that this is now his life. Following escaped livestock into the grounds of an abandoned manor house, Gideon makes a startling discovery… ‘I Think You Knew My Father’ - Journalist Marc Harrison is determined to be the first reporter on Mars. Cheating his way onto the first manned mission, Marc looks forward to making the scoop of his life. But things don’t exactly work out as he’d hoped… |
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