About M. Jean Pike

Hello, and welcome to my blog! I’m Jean Pike, author of inspirational romantic fiction and non fiction. After living my whole life in Western New York, I relocated to Southern Ohio, where I share my 1920’s cottage with a hound dog and a tabby cat.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had stories rolling around in my head. My earliest works include a short story collection, a memoir, and a slim volume of poetry 🙂

I wrote prolifically throughout high school, contributing to the school newspaper, writing songs and poems to share at church, and designing my own greeting cards for family and friends. In college, I received my first real publishing credit when one of my poems was published in a small literary journal. My payment was three copies! Having had a small taste of success, I started sending out more and more work for publication. When each submission was met with a rejection letter, I got discouraged and gave up. For a while. Actually, for a long while.

Ten years passed before I started writing again. This time, I took courses. I studied my craft. I edited and then edited each piece again before I sent it out. No one was more surprised than me when the acceptance letters started rolling in!

With over one hundred essays and short stories in print, I decided it was time to try may hand at writing a novel. My first one, a ghost story titled The Edge of Autumn, took me nearly six years to write. I lived with the characters and setting for so long they seemed like home and family. They still do.

From there, I wrote a novel about an enchanted cottage (Waiting For The Rain.) Next, I indulged my love of anything WW2 and wrote Heatherfield, a time travel romance about America’s Homefront. I then veered away from romance and wrote a gritty literary novel about life’s twists and turns (In The Shadow of The Dragonfly.) And then a collection of three Romance novels in a series called Love on the Lake. After a four year hiatus, I wrote an Inspirational Romance about a fifty year old widow finding love again (Frankie’s Heart.) And then I wrote a Women’s Fiction title about a woman who finally learns to love herself (All The Broken Places.) In 2023 I signed with a new publisher and wrote the first in my Redford’s Crossing Romance series, a Christian Romance called The Little Things. In 2024 the second in the series, King of Hearts, was released, as well as a Christmas novella titled, The Key to Christmas. Check back to see what’s next!

Like her children, a writer’s books are each very different, each dearly beloved. My books reflect my interests and values. Between their covers you will find people gardening, bird watching, and working on their houses. You will find them baking cakes, walking their dogs, cheering at their son’s football games, and worshipping in churches. You will find life at its ugliest, and at its most impossibly beautiful. And hopefully, you’ll find something that blesses you and makes you smile, and you’ll read the final pages and feel like you’ve made a friend.

Jean