Wendy Jones is a screenwriter who has achieved double recommended through Stage32 and reached semi-finalist in their Rom Com Feature competition 2023.
Before scripts, Wendy wrote novels, having eight published, three with Harper Collins. Before that she was a doctor, who worked in General Practice, Accident and Emergency and Hospice Care and did an elective in Forensic Pathology in Vancouver where she learned how to do autopsies and met some of the crew from The X-Files.
Wendy lives in a little village in the English countryside. She adores guinea-pigs, love stories and all biscuits except the custard cream. Unsurprisingly, her works involve elements of medicine, crime but most importantly, love.
Unique traits: Lapsed doctor and pole dancer.
The Life I could Have Had Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Drama A woman rejected by her first love after choosing career over family, meets him again years later and has to withstand his bitterness just to be near him and show him her love still remains.
The Value of Love Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Drama A poor young antiques dealer hiding within the London elite must remain single in order to survive, but with his creditors closing in, when a devious friend offers him a way out, he is forced into the arms of a woman hiding secrets of her own.
The Secret Gardener Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery ⋄ Drama A poor young woman, whose mother is admitted after yet another overdose, discovers her father is still alive and runs off to Scotland desperate for security to find a man who is loved by all, bar one.
A Good Friend Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Other A people-pleasing teenager accidentally humiliates the prickly rich girl on her course, but raised in a household of guilt, determines to make amends however much the girl resists.
The Scenic Route Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy A spoiled young man is sent to the countryside to reassess his life or lose everything, but falling for the poor woman sent to watch over him definitely isn’t in his parents’ plan.
Bittersweet Budget: $1M - $5M | Other ⋄ Drama When a lonely young woman falsely claims a good deed in order to protect her best friend, the outpouring of love and temptation that follows starts to undermine her desire to help.
Semifinalist - Stage32 RomCom Feature
(2023)
Birmingham Medical School, UK
(1989-1994)