Previous 'incarnations' were in committee services, staff development and training. Morton has a Business Studies degree and is a fully qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Reiki Master. She has diplomas in Tuina (Acupressure Massage) and Energy Field Therapy.
She has been tracing family trees for over thirty years.
Winner of Choc Lit Publishing's Search for a Star competition 2016 with her novel, Who is Harry Dixon?
Writing Achievements
October 2006 - First Place in
Button Bridge Books Short Story Competition with
“Human Nature versus the Spirit Guide.” (as Jayne Hall)
“Human Nature versus the Spirit Guide.” (as Jayne Hall)
Summer 2009 - Assisted in setting
up, running and judging short story competition
“The
Last Bus home” for Wyre Forest Dial-a-Ride.
20 October 2009 - Ran “Beginners Guide to Creative Writing” as part of Bewdley
Fringe
Festival”
January 2010 - Poem “The Chosen
Ones” published on www.writers-clinic.webs.com
(as Jayne Hall)
November 2010 - Completed
NaNoWriMo with novel ‘Circle of Herbs’.
July 2011 - Third
place with “You Do Not Own Me” Flash Fiction on subject of
“Secrets”
for Sue Johnson’s Writers’ Toolkit. (as Jayne Hall)
November 2011 - Completed
NaNoWriMo with novel ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’.
2012 - First Year Member Romantic Novelists’
Association New Writers’
Scheme
submitted novel ‘Who is Rosie Phillips?’.
July 2012 - Shortlisted (last 8) in Elizabeth
Goudge Trophy at Romantic Novelists’
Association
conference with short story ‘Bones.’
November 2012 - Completed
NaNoWriMo with novel ‘Written in the Coffee’
2013 - Second Year Member Romantic Novelists’
Association New Writers’
Scheme
submitted novel ‘Circle of Herbs’.
2013 - Awarded Certificate of Higher Education in Creative Writing by Bucks
University
Modules studied with the Open College of the Arts
were:-
Writing 1 – Starting to Write – 2008/9
Writing 1 – Poetry – 2009/2010
Writing 1 – Lifelines – 2010/2011
July 2013 - Placed 2nd in Elizabeth
Goudge trophy at RNA conference with start of
a
novel – ‘Ice Men’.
November 2013 - Shortlisted
for New Talent Award at Festival of Romance with start of
a
novel – ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’. (as Jayne Hall)
November 2013 - Completed
NaNoWriMo with start of novels ‘Millie’s War’ and
'Strange
Inheritance’.
2014 - Third Year Member Romantic Novelists’
Association New Writers’
Scheme
submitted novel ‘Who is Rosie Phillips?’ for second time.
November 2014 - Completed
NaNoWriMo with novel ‘Who is Harry Dixon?’.
2015 - Fourth Year Member Romantic Novelists’
Association New Writers’
Scheme
submitted novel ‘Who is Harry Dixon?’.
July 2015 In
last nine of Elizabeth Goudge trophy at RNA conference with start of
a
novel – ‘Who is Rosie Phillips’.
August 2015 Shortlisted with “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” Flash Fiction on subject of
“Yellow”
for Sue Johnson’s Writers’ Toolkit. (as Jayne Hall)
