Dark thrillers where history, myth and the supernatural collide with the present.
In May 2024, I was interviewed for the Ancient Heroes Podcast. You can listen below or on Spotify, Apple, or your favourite podcast app. In this episode of Ancient Heroes, host Patrick Garvey welcomes award-winning author JF Penn. Known for her thrillers, dark fantasy, crime, horror, and travel memoir, Penn introduces her upcoming novel, Spear [ ]
Do you love books by Clive Cussler, James Rollins or Dan Brown? Are you a fan of movies like Indiana Jones, National Treasure or Lara Croft: Tomb Raider? If yes, you’re an action-adventure and archaeological thriller fan, and in this article, I share some fantastic series you can binge read right now for your next [ ]
In this video, I explain what Kickstarter is and why I m publishing Spear of Destiny there first. Hello everyone. I m thriller author J.F. Penn, and today I m talking about what is Kickstarter and why am I launching my latest thriller Spear of Destiny on the platform? Well, if you ve never heard of Kickstarter or never used it before, it s [ ]
My next thriller, Spear of Destiny, is out now on Kickstarter, launching with a limited special signed First Edition with an exclusive cover. You can watch the video below or here on YouTube. Hello everyone. I m Jo Frances (J.F.) Penn, Award-winning, New York Times and USA today bestselling thriller author, and I m launching my next novel, Spear of Destiny on [ ]
I m thrilled to share that my travel memoir, Pilgrimage: Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways, won Best Non-Fiction/Memoir at the Selfie Awards at London Book Fair on 14 March 2024. I m now an award-winning author! The award was judged based on the story and the content of the book, the quality of production, and [ ]
I read a lot of books across many different genres, usually around 3-5 books per week in ebook, audio, and hardback editions. These are the memorable ones that made a lasting impact on me this year. I hope some of them make it to your holiday reading pile! At First Light — Barbara Nickless. “Ritual murder. [ ]
In this video, I explain how I get my story ideas from travel — from how I decide to go to a place, and where I go when I get there, as well as how some of my thrillers have evolved from different trips. You can watch the video below or here on YouTube. Hello [ ]
In many ways, San Francisco is a high-tech city, with Silicon Valley just down the road, Twitter on Market Street and Ubers on every corner. But it also has a rich religious history and some unusual places to visit if you want to venture further than the Golden Gate Bridge. Here are some of the [ ]
I first learned to scuba dive on the West Coast of Australia and have spent a lot of time diving off the coast of New Zealand. The picture below is from the Poor Knights Islands. Living in England now means I don t dive much – it s just too cold around the coast here, but watching [ ]
My fascination with maps and cartography led me to research and write Map of Shadows, which features the Mapwalkers, who can travel through maps into the Borderlands, a world adjoining our own made from places we push off our maps, and creatures and people we write out of history. When Sienna and the Mapwalker team [ ]