Jo Spain

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Jo Spain

Jo Spain likes to make up stories and some of them don't have dead bodies in them, but most of them do. Which is fine for work but not so good when she's in conversation with random strangers. Jo realised early she had expensive taste, which always comes as a shock when people suggest rounds in the pub and she asks for champagne. She has four kids, but there always seems to be double that in her house. It doesn't bother her, she can work through noise but, then, maybe it's the noise that's making her want to kill people all the time. When Jo grows up, she'd like to win an Oscar, partly for the accolade, partly because it's an excuse to wear a pretty dress. Jo likes people, laughing and grisly crime, in that order.

Interviewed 25 June 2022

Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...

At last, I have monetised the voices in my head.

Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...

Wine rack, TV, piano, house-move boxes, garden, a sick child off school, makeshift kitchen in the sitting room, books, a plumber.

Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?

French toast, maple syrup.

Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...

David Simon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margot Robbie, Miriam Margolyes, Brendan Behan, Martin Scorsese, Elvis. Some of them would be real cheap dates.

Six things you can't live without ...

My family; writing; my laptop; TV; running; champagne; laughing.

Five favourite words ...

Greenlit. Yissirs. Though. Dubliner. Twilight.

Four places you'd run away to ...

Donegal. Lapland. Lake Como. Rivendell.

Three books you've bought recently ...

Did ye hear mammy died? by Seamus O’Reilly. Morning in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa. Churchill by Andrew Roberts.

Two things that make you rant ...

Rudeness. Politics.

One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...

Go easy on yourself. It’s okay to mess up.