About
“In every fiction there is a moment of truth, when you become one with the story written on the page in front of you. When you’re inside the story and the story is inside you. These are the moments I want to create.
I write so I can tell people about all the amazing worlds I’ve visited inside my head. It’s like unlocking my deepest, darkest fears or my wildest hopes and dreams, and I’m trusting you to read every page, right to the end..
The way you read a story is completely different from the person next to you. You are unique. Wherever the story takes you, it takes you alone. This is your fantastic experience. This is your escape hatch. Your adventure. That’s what makes writing so exciting for me, and what makes me want to create so much more when I conjure these words for you.”
- Jo Jette
Jo Jette is an Author, compulsive writer and designer. Her love of mythology, history, pirates, rollerskating, zombies and science fiction filters through everything she writes, while a warm sense of humour lights the way through her darker works.
Instantly labelled a nerd at school, in her formative years Jo dived head first into a world of tortured teenage angst, heavy metal and punk rock. Oh and she wrote some truly awful poetry. Inevitably realising that poetry was perhaps not for her, and driven by an obsession with reading everything she could get her hands on, Jo started writing her own stories.
Prior to focusing on writing books, Jo enjoyed a career as both Editor and journalist, recognised for her focus on underground, alternative and street art. In 2006, Jo became the Managing Editor of Desktop magazine, where she was responsible for modernising the magazine’s content as well as pioneering the magazine’s online & social media presence. Leaving Desktop in 2010, she became the Editor of Wooden Toy, an internationally esteemed art & design magazine, where she stayed until the publication went on hiatus in 2012. Jo then founded her own 76-page digital art magazine, Nothing to Nobody, which ran for 3 years. Jo has also written for renowned magazines such as T-World and Very Nearly Almost.
In 2013 Jo decided to devote her time to writing books, and self-published her first novel, the pirate adventure Thirteen Bones, in 2015. This was followed by her second book Café La Morte, a story of love and redemption, in 2017. Jo has just finished writing her third book, the mythological fiction Every Monster has a Story; and is working on a fourth book, Down in the Underworld, a dystopian ode to the continual dumbing down of society.
Jo’s books often feature strong female protagonists facing their destiny with fierce determination. Upcoming works include the 1920s gangster inspired crime drama, Scarlette Diemond; a wild space adventure about an intergalactic mercenary named Arthur Kill, and the zombie apocalyptic adventures, No Man’s Land.
When she’s not visiting strange new worlds, Jo can be found roller-skating and spending time with her husband, skateboard photographer Josh Feggans.
