Romance & Women’s Fiction author Jen Gilroy/Rose Warner
Jen Gilroy writes sweet contemporary romance and, as Rose Warner, historical women’s fiction – uplifting books with heart and hope – about women finding home, family and new beginnings, and finding themselves too.
About Me
After a varied career in academia, business and government, I’m now a full-time writer. I live with my family in small-town Ontario, Canada, although as a dual British-Canadian citizen also call England home.
I’m the author of eight contemporary romances with my next book, The Cowgirl Nanny, a sweet western romance from Harlequin Heartwarming, out in April 2024.
My women’s and historical fiction debut, The Sweetheart Locket, a dual timeline WW2 and contemporary novel, released from Orion Dash in March 2022 and is currently available in audio.
I’ve been a finalist for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (RNA) Joan Hessayon Award and Romance Writers of America’s (RWA®) Golden Heart® award. Amazon named my third book, Back Home at Firefly Lake, a ‘Best Book of the Month: Romance’ in December 2017.
For UK-focused women’s fiction, I’m represented by Kiran Kataria at Keane Kataria Literary Agency.
In North America, I’m represented by Paige Wheeler at Creative Media Agency.
I’m a member of the RNA and Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA).
Photo by Robin Spencer, Spencer Studio
From the Blog…
Visiting my British ‘home’ & a summer blogging break
After five long years when pandemic restrictions and then my own bout with Covid precluded travel, I’m finally able to visit England again this summer. It's still and always will be, important to who I am as a person and writer and one of the places I call 'home.' And...
It’s garage sale season in my world
May and June. In my part of Canada the spring blooms are in full flower, and signs for weekend garage sales pop up as often as dandelions. It's once again the season when people sell things they no longer via their garage or outside their house. When I lived in...
My well-travelled writing desk
On X (formerly Twitter), Welsh author friend Tracy Rees posted recently that she has two desks, an “expensive oak-topped one” and a “cheap self-assembly one” she built twenty-three years ago and has “carried…from house to house…ever since.” I too have several desks...
Latest News
Chatting with lifestyle blogger Deni Jones about my books, writing & life
Thanks to lifestyle blogger Deni Jones (who also writes romance as Charlene Groome) for interviewing me. We chatted about my new book, The Cowgirl Nanny from Harlequin Heartwarming and what's it's like for me now writing in two genres, sweet contemporary romance and...
Jane Cable/Eva Glyn calls The Cowgirl Nanny “the perfect heartwarming read”
Thanks to Jane Cable/Eva Glyn for a lovely review of my new Harlequin Heartwarming book, The Cowgirl Nanny, on her blog. "Jen Gilroy has such a talent for creating completely believable characters with real, deep emotions...The setting is wonderfully created...
Read my Harlequin 75th anniversary free online story: “Reunion at the Bluebunch Cafe”
Reunion at the Bluebunch Café by Jen Gilroy Chefs Kristi and Alex share a passion for cooking, a tiny small-town kitchen…and a second chance at love? Harlequin is celebrating its 75th birthday in 2024. I was honoured to be invited to write a special free online story...
Photo by Robin Spencer, Spencer Studio