Jayne Lockwood has self-published two novels and is working on her third. She lives just outside London, in the Chiltern hills where she grew up. The Cloud Seeker is set in the village where she lived until recently, and her third novel will also be set in the local area. It is a land of hills and valleys, secret woods and wide vistas, topped with glorious skies. There are many great characters and old stories, and it is where she gets her inspiration. Having said that, some of her work has a distinctive Stateside flavour (Closer Than Blood) as she lived in New Jersey for two years in the 1990...