As a trained photo-journalist, Jill contributes to a number of pamphlets and magazines within Derbyshire, including publications produced by the Alfreton history society and local church. She has written close to twenty local history books over the past seven years, four of which being previously published Amberley titles: Paranormal Derbyshire (November, 2010), Haunted Pubs, Inns & Hotels of Derbyshire (June, 2011), Alfreton Through Time (Oct, 2013) and Ripley Through Time (Nov, 2013). Although Jill lives a few miles outside of Derby, she has strong links with the city. She has a small, but growing collection of old photographs of the area, with contacts to others, which she builds upon in her spare time, alongside her involvement with the Romantic Novels Association to which she is a member.