Janey Mac Bookstore
Books of all sorts for all kinds of readers...
Welcome!
Welcome to a world of words...
I write books because I love creating characters and worlds and stories. By the time they become scripts or stage plays or books, these stories are demanding to be told. Each finds its own medium and audience. Being pigeon-holed into being a certain type of writer or a writer of /in only one genre/ medium just doesn't work for me!
After two novels, one book of non-fiction using 20+ years as a screenwriter and tutor, I wrote a series of four children's books for Little Island (WULFIE) during the pandemic.
Now, in 2026, I have two books of flash fiction coming out. The first, SPARKS, is a collaboration with the Belfast artist Margaret Woods Moore, and the second, GLIMPSES BENEATH, comes out with a new indie publisher, Silver Locust Press in June.
There are other books en route too - the most important of which is a new children's book in September, MISCHIEVOUS MAGICAL MAIA MALONE, illustrated by Abigail Hicks.
Let me know by email (JaneyMacBooks@gmail.com) if you'd like a personal inscription in any book you order.
- Lindsay J. Sedgwick
This is a collection [GLIMPSES BENEATH] that teaches you to see the world in a heightened way, all the things that we miss because we are too busy thinking and doing. L J Sedgwick has an extraordinary gift of observation, of finding the heartrending and the darkly comic in the daily minutiae of life. An extraordinary achievement.
SPARKS is pure alchemy - where one artist’s lines end, another’s words begin, elevating stunning art into thought-provoking and intriguing slices of life.
GLIMPSES BENEATH is a privileged door into the remarkable world of L J Sedgwick where nothing is ordinary and everything she sees spawns strange adventures. Wonderful thoughts, beautifully expressed.
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Off the wall and gorgeous. I love every word!
About Lindsay J. Sedgwick
Lindsay J. Sedgwick
LINDSAY J.SEDGWICK is an author, playwright and screenwriter whose credits span genres and form from feature films, television drama and children’s series, to short films, radio plays and game narrative.
From her very first novel (DAD'S RED DRESS, 2017), which was described as ‘joyous, loving... truly unique among the vast canon of coming-of-age stories...a delight to read’,' her work has explored very different worlds and characters. Her second, THE ANGELICA TOUCH was reviewed as ...'Another gift of joy from Sedgwick... filled with heart and warmth. With a setting and characters that fire the imagination, the reader gets sucked in immediately and pulled along on an incredible ride of the emotions... A wonderful, imaginative tale that will leave you smiling.'
Her children's series - WULFIE: STAGE FRIGHT, WULFIE: BEAST IN SHOW, WULFIE SAVES THE PLANET AND WULFIE: A GHOSTLY TAIL - have delighted readers from six to nine upwards, while her book on character-driven screenwriting, WRITE THAT SCRIPT! has travelled far and wide and is the core text for the Screenwriting module in Media Studies at Maynooth University.
With GLIMPSES BENEATH and SPARKS, two new books of short fiction, she explores character and story in a new, often witty, surprising, occasionally dark, and lyrical way.
In addition to screenwriting credits, Lindsay’s plays have been produced throughout Ireland and in the UK and her writing has been described as ‘gripping,’ gut-wrenching’ and ‘seductive’.
