Most all of the novels that Moyes have written have been best sellers and critically acclaimed. In 2003 Jojo Moyes won the award again for her novel Foreign Fruit. Moyes won in 2011 for writing her novel The Last Letter From Your Lover. The Romantic Novelists’ Association has awarded the yearly novel of the year award to Jojo Moyes twice. She admits to being a very emotional writer and crying over every novel, even saying how if she wasn’t that emotional about a book that would probably mean that it was not that good. Moyes has a full life with three children and lots of animals, so has much around her to draw inspiration thing. Moyes uses people or conversations that she has encountered at as a starting point for developing characters, she also often uses many aspects of her own life and personality and adjust and develops and molds them until they form fully fledged characters and stories. She does note that her most recent work The One Plus One was done with less of this style writing than any of her other works.
Moyes describes her writing as a fairly organic process with the different parts kind of naturally coming together to form a cohesive whole. Jojo Moyes is technically consider to write romance, but she likes to add in some humor and lighten things up, even add another level of emotion or tension at times. Moyes has amassed a total of eleven more since the first one in 2002, the most recent being The One Plus One. Jojo Moyes published Sheltering Rain, her first novel, when she began writing novels full time in 2002. After earning a degree at both the Bedford New College and Royal Holloway (London University) Moyes won a scholarship from the newspaper (The Independent) and was able to do graduate journalism work, which she did at City University.
Jojo Moyes is now a novelist but was a writer and a journalist before becoming a novelist.įor ten years she worked for a newspaper called The Independent, during which time she also did some writing as an (assistant) editor and a correspondent covering the areas of art and media. She worked an array of different writing jobs including writing braille for people who were blind and writing brochures. Growing up in London, Jojo Moyes is a British author who was born in 1969 and was named after a song written by the Beatles singing group.
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