Moyes became a full-time novelist in 2002, when her first book Sheltering Rain was published. After submitting the first three chapters of her fourth book to various publishers, six of them began a bidding war for the rights. With one child, another baby on the way, and a career as a journalist, Moyes committed to herself that if her fourth book was rejected, she would stop her efforts.

Writing career Įarly in her writing career, Moyes wrote three manuscripts that were all initially rejected. In 2002 she became the newspaper's Arts and Media Correspondent. She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years (except for one year, when she worked in Hong Kong for the Sunday Morning Post) in various roles, becoming Assistant News Editor in 1998. Moyes won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper which allowed her to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University in 1992. She earned a journalism degree from City University as well as a degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University. While an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, Moyes worked for the Egham and Staines News. īefore attending university, Moyes held several jobs: she was a typist at NatWest typing statements in braille for blind people, a brochure writer for Club 18-30, and a minicab controller for a brief time. Pauline Sara-Jo Moyes was born on 4 August 1969 in Maidstone, England. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 August 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist, #1 New York Times best selling author and screenwriter.

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