About
Who is J.F. Penn?
I am an author, blogger, speaker and business consultant based in London, England although I also lived in Australia and New Zealand for 11 years. I always dreamed of writing my own books, and spent many years thinking about it before I actually took the plunge.
In Feb 2011, I published my first thriller novel ‘Pentecost’ available on Amazon and other online retailers. I blogged the journey and you can read all about the experience by clicking here. Pentecost continues to sell well, remaining in the Amazon Kindle bestseller charts in Action-Adventure and Religious Fiction months after launch. It has 69 Amazon reviews averaging 4 stars.
Prophecy debuted on the Amazon Action Adventure chart with Lee Child in Jan 2012
The second ARKANE thriller, Prophecy, was published in January 2012 and has 16 reviews averaging 4.5 stars.
On a more personal note, I love reading on my Kindle and I put my book reviews on Goodreads. You can connect with me here. My favorite authors include James Rollins, Matt Reilly, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child but I read eclectically and also read a lot of non-fiction, mostly travel, psychology and religion.
I also run a website for writers, The Creative Penn: Adventures in Writing, Publishing and Book Marketing where I help others on the journey to becoming an author.
I’m married and live with my husband in South London, England. I’m a cat lover and I enjoy a glass of pinot noir along with chocolate as my main vice. I walk a lot and love to Zumba. Travelling is my addiction and I definitely have itchy foot syndrome. I love to move on!
You can see lots of pictures from my life here, including my travels, adventures and writing inspiration.
If you’d like to connect more personally, contact me here.
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Hi Joanna,
I dropped in here and began a speed read of your homepage, one of those scenarios where you mistakenly believe you can assimilate a concentrated mass of info, with savant-esque efficiency, only to find you can’t recall a word of it by the time you reach the foot of the page!
You hooked me and drew me in with your various interests in psychology, neuroscience and religion. I too remembered the Milgram experiments and the Stamford Prison Experiment from my A’level psychology classes – I found them fascinating then and still do.
Here in Canada we’ve recently been subjected to the horrifying details of a child abduction and subsequent rape and murder. The little girl was eight and the whole country has been shaken by the crime. The debate over whether we should have the death-penalty has been all over the press.
I wrote a piece about the female perpetrator of the crime (there were two, a male and a female) showing her miserable background and how it contributed to what she found herself doing, at age eighteen, to an innocent little girl.
People don’t like to hear about the capacity to commit horror or heroism that lies in all of us, preferring the comfort of labels like “evil” and “monster” which place what most see as an uncrossable gulf between themselves and the type of person who could do those things.
I’ll have to look out for your books, they look like something I could get lost in