Published award-winning author, writing as Jean Adams, with three romance novels published, The Sabine Connection and Beats a Wild Heart, which won best book in 2004. Eternal Hearts, set in ancient Egypt, is due out August 2009. Two more books are under contract, Forever One, accepted for an anthology, and Yesterday’s Dreams. The Fires of Passion, a spin-off from Yesterday’s Dreams, is under consideration.Subeditor with a group of Auckland newspapers for eighteen years. I was also a columnist for the same group for five years, writing first about the local theatre scene then moving on to TV reviews.Contracted with the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies to write a course, and to tutor, romance writing, Founded Romance Writers of New Zealand in 1990.