About the Author
Jes Bogg was born, raised and continues to reside in England’s northern city, Kingston Upon Hull. She lives with her mother, young daughter, and their Abyssinian cat, Petrie.
Growing up, she was inspired by Point Horror stories, Sweet Valley High and anything by K A Applegate, and as an adult she was gripped by the writers Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Peters, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Lee Child and Scott Mariani.
As an advocate of breastfeeding, Jes volunteers for a local trust, assisting mothers to feed their children, in addition to promoting the benefits of human milk to their relatives. She has also taken on a new role at a nearby gymnastics club, a sport she loves to watch if unable to participate in.
A fair warning—don’t get her talking about ancient Egypt or cats, you’ll never get away.
How did you get into writing?
This is the type of question you get asked a lot, along with the other gems: where do you get your ideas from, and what’s your book about? Deer in the headlights, anyone?
I did entertain ideas of writing YA stories when I was a teenager, but that’s due to what I read at the time and I never took it seriously. The years which followed, I would get the outline of a plot in my head, then run out of steam a couple of pages in.
Throughout my adult life, I have always been the one persuaded to produce thank you cards, letters of complaint, résumés, advertisements, and much more for family and friends. The constant excuse being, “You know how to write.” What these crazy people meant was I had basic punctuation and grammar, and a wide vocabulary. This doth not make a writer! Possibly, it’s an advantage if one works in admin.
So, where did it start? Misery, boredom and a single thought: a carer is waiting for his colleague outside a client’s home, but when they go in together, they find a dead body. Honestly, that’s as much as I had. Well, that and a few characters who had lived in my head rent-free forever. Once I got around ten chapters in and I was still writing, I knew I was in trouble. I had the bug.
I was finally putting people’s views to the test by making a concerted effort to complete a story I felt driven to tell.
After eighteen months of slog, I published my first novel, A Murder on Call, book one of the Baz Bexon series. This was in November 2025.