Jeanna Louise Skinner is a British author of romantic fiction with elements of magic. She is best known for The Book Boyfriend (2021), a paranormal romance featuring a plus-size heroine. Her Twitter project, UKRomChat, was nominated for the RNA Media Star Award in 2019 and 2020.
Jeanna Louise Skinner has Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and ADHD, conditions she has spoken about in interviews. She has described the effects of writing with chronic illness as both enabling and challenging, saying that ideas arrive quickly but focus is often hard to maintain.
In an interview, she remarked that she sometimes goes “months without writing a single word” and at other times “stories drip from my fingers like spilt ink”.
Before publication, she co-created UKRomChat, a weekly Twitter chat focused on romance writing and readership. The platform brought together writers and readers, earning industry recognition through two award nominations.
In 2020, she co-founded the RNA DISCO Chapter, a network for members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association with disabilities or long-term health conditions.
The Book Boyfriend (2021) is her debut novel. Skinner has said the idea began during a conversation about fictional heroes that “had never let us down”, and she imagined one stepping out of a book.
The novel follows Emmeline, a blocked writer who has schizophrenia and an anxiety disorder. After inheriting a failing bookshop, she encounters Lord Jonathan Dalgliesh, a cursed character from a Tudor-era romance. The two attempt to break the spell that traps him in an old book while facing threats to Emmeline’s safety.
Skinner has said she aimed to write the heroine “with the necessary sensitivity and care” and wanted readers to see that women with mental health conditions “deserve to get a HEA too”.
Jeanna Louise Skinner lives in Exeter, Devon. She is working on a related prequel.
Photo credit: jeannalouiseskinner.com
Jeanna Louise Skinner has Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and ADHD, conditions she has spoken about in interviews. She has described the effects of writing with chronic illness as both enabling and challenging, saying that ideas arrive quickly but focus is often hard to maintain.
In an interview, she remarked that she sometimes goes “months without writing a single word” and at other times “stories drip from my fingers like spilt ink”.
Before publication, she co-created UKRomChat, a weekly Twitter chat focused on romance writing and readership. The platform brought together writers and readers, earning industry recognition through two award nominations.
In 2020, she co-founded the RNA DISCO Chapter, a network for members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association with disabilities or long-term health conditions.
The Book Boyfriend (2021) is her debut novel. Skinner has said the idea began during a conversation about fictional heroes that “had never let us down”, and she imagined one stepping out of a book.
The novel follows Emmeline, a blocked writer who has schizophrenia and an anxiety disorder. After inheriting a failing bookshop, she encounters Lord Jonathan Dalgliesh, a cursed character from a Tudor-era romance. The two attempt to break the spell that traps him in an old book while facing threats to Emmeline’s safety.
Skinner has said she aimed to write the heroine “with the necessary sensitivity and care” and wanted readers to see that women with mental health conditions “deserve to get a HEA too”.
Jeanna Louise Skinner lives in Exeter, Devon. She is working on a related prequel.
Photo credit: jeannalouiseskinner.com
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