Hi there!  I’m Jo Franklin, writer of short stories and novels.  I live in the UK.

I am a Member of The Society of Authors.

My short stories and novels are listed on other pages on this site. One or two short stories are provided in full and may be enjoyed immediately!

Commissions are always welcome.
   Please click on Contact Details.  In your email please quote ‘Commissions’.

Successes / Awards with short stories:

Published 1 April 2008 in Woman’s Weekly magazine:
  “Tea with Tania”.

Published 23 February 2008 in UK The People’s Friend magazine:  “Magic Moments”.
  (The story is also being included on a cassette tape produced by the Talking Newspaper Association for the use of the blind.)

Published in UK Yours magazine
  “Lavender Bees” published in 2005
  “Thursday Afternoons” published in Spring Special 2006
  “Brenda’s Going Football-crazy!” published May 2007

Published twice in UK Writers Magazine
  First prize award for Science Fiction (“Little Green Men”)
  First prize award for Crime (“A Smile From Mr Penrose”)

“Shadows”, a short story commission, successfully completed for a London-based entrepreneur

Published twice in US Atriad Press
   “Rose” in Haunted Encounters:
         Ghost Stories from Around the World
   “The Phantom Swimmer” in Haunted Encounters:
         Departed Family and Friends

Interview by UK publisher David St John Thomas
   Reprint of “Lavender Bees” in Aspire magazine
     (by kind permission of Yours magazine)

Article about Buckingham Palace Garden Party
   “A Party At The Palace” published in Evergreen in
         Spring 2006
 

Pleased you called by!