Jane Burfield

Female

Toronto

Canada

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Toronto
About Me:
I live in a family house full of too many daughters, cats and stuff from past generations. Nothing beats tea, in any incarnation, as long as it's real tea and not some flavoured tisane. I am working on short stories, and fighting with a first crime novel.
I Am A:
Writer
Books And Authors I Like:
PD James makes me hear cellos play! Sayers, Marsh and the other early grand dames are wonderful. I love Elizabeth Peter's wit and characters. I enjoy Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Stallwood, Leone, and a bunch of other Brit crime novellists. I also enjoy many of the current Canadian crime writers. Basically, anything involving multiple bound pages with good plot and characters deserves attention...
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
AbFab, Law and Order UK, MI5, Inspector Murdock Mysteries, Inspector Lewis, Mystery theatre, House, NCIS, Monk, Bones, Being Erica, and almost any home renovation show on HGTV. I watch CSI Miami for my Florida fix when I'm shivering in the cold at home in Toronto.

Comment Wall:

  • LC Fraser

    Yoo Hoo! About time there lady! Michelle is here somewhere, and lots of folk from Moldy - Merlot, Jen, Jack, Nicole, Mary Saums, Patricia, most of us in fact. Peruse my buddy list and see who you know.

    Jun 20, 2007

  • Merrill Young

    Hi Jane.
    I have it on good authority that you are 'good folk'.
    Lynne said so, and she is always right!

    Jun 20, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Good picture Janie. I hope you like it here.

    Jun 23, 2007

  • Patricia

    Hi Jane...welcome to crimespace

    Jun 28, 2007

  • Mary Saums

    Hi, Jane - Off to Harrogate? Oooh, I'm so jealous. I see some of our nefarious friends have already visited here. :) Be sure and tell us all about your trip when you get back. No doubt we'll be at the pub!

    Jul 9, 2007

  • Lyn LeJeune

    Last post the daughters were off to London....hard when they go far away. But when you write it makes the time pass and you go into another world. It has given me a purpose now that I'm an empty nester....My book, The Beatitudes, is a paranormal thriller set in New Orleans. It will be out in the fall and I am donating all royalties directly to the New Orleans Public Library Foundation. Libraries support the infrastructure of a great city, so I have started The Beatitudes Network to promote awareness of the importance of public libraries in NOLA.
    The blogsite www.beatitudesinneworleans.blogspot.com describes the Network, has excerpts from The Beatitudes, recipes, and more. Merci mille fois. Lyn Lejeune.
    Writers, please pass the word…..it’s for a good cause….don’t let the libraries of New Orleans or the US go the way of The Great Library of Alexandria. P.S. just posted an excerpt on my page here on crimespace.

    Aug 10, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Hi Janie! You must be long back from London and up north by now I suspect. Let me know when you have a free day down this way and we will try to get together. Mind you, getting me out of the house is not so easy .....

    Aug 13, 2007

  • carole gill

    Wow Jane! YOur first novel, me too! STruggling that is. You'll do it. in fact, we'll both do it and meet half way across the atlantic to celebrate wtih a botle of bubbly, what do you say? all the best

    Aug 14, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Janie, love! Are you HOME yet? Have you met or read Vicki Delany? I just finished one of hers - Scare the Light Away. It was a really interesting read. She is actually from Oakville!

    Aug 19, 2007

  • carole gill

    how was the Harrogate festival. Missed it this year, but i won't next year. how did you like your stay in England?

    Aug 20, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    You must be packing again - off to Russia this weekend right? Send postcards!

    Sep 15, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Just remembered --- don't you have Blood on the Holly coming out next month? Short stories anthology with lots of great authors? I am afraid I have forgotten the details.

    Sep 25, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Congrats on a great book launching yesterday! Wonderfully done and the book looks just great. Perfect Christmas gift for a few folk.

    Oct 19, 2007

  • Jane Burfield

    Last night was amazing - my first book launch and signing at Sleuth of Baker Street in Toronto. Lynne was there before going off to hear Margaret Atwood. The store was so full of people you couldn't move. They sold out the 100 copies they had ordered in for the event, but our editor came to the rescue with 80 more. Makes me want to take this writing thing seriously :}}}}} Some people bought copies for their entire book group. It does have some good stories though, with a crime Christmas theme, so it's a fun read for December, and makes a good Christmas present at a reasonable price. I have my fingers crossed for its launch on the world. Jane :}}}}}

    Oct 19, 2007

  • Lillian Porter

    Good to find anther Canadian here on crimespace. I get down to Toronto to Sleuth of Baker Street periodically when I get to TO. I live in Niagara Falls. I also belong ro several mystery reading lists.

    Lillian

    Dec 18, 2007

  • Lillian Porter

    Yes indeed I wish you luck! You will have time there

    Lillian

    Dec 18, 2007

  • Jennie Bentley/Bente Gallagher

    Hi, Jane. I think we know each other from the MPM-lists of long ago. Be my friend?

    Dec 30, 2007

  • LC Fraser

    Yoo Hoo! I know you are home again now --- how is the cold doing and when do you head to Harrowgate?

    Mar 14, 2008

  • Jane Burfield

    Are any crime space members going to be at Harrogate Crime Fest? I'll be roaming the halls, looking murderous, this weekend and would love to say hello to fellow members. Jane

    Jul 16, 2008