Jacqui Deevoy
Jacqui Deevoy has been a freelance journalist for over three decades, writing mainly for women's magazines and newspapers. She has written several books, had dozens of short stories published worldwide and has been known to pen an astrology column or two. She has four grown-up offspring and one grandson. She feels her work here is almost done.
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