K.J. Jones also writes under the pen name Kat-Jo Jones. Jones is a nom de plume and not her real surname. It was going to be Jones or Smith.

She is the second generation in her family to have a background in the US Armed Forces and tries to be active in war veteran assistance programs.

Photo taken in 2006 in London, England, UK, for a free glamour shoot. The author is the most unphotogenic person in the history of the world!

A member of Mensa, the wise-cracking GenX, former metalhead author has an undergraduate degree in four-field anthropology from Wilmington, North Carolina. She achieved her master’s degree in archaeology in the UK, so she knows a boatload of history. Using her life experiences, her dark-humored work brings in the past and current events in a bold manner not normally done nowadays.

With over thirty years of residing in the South, this sweet-tea addicted Yankee got the swift idea years ago of leaving North Carolina and moving to Florida for the nature. There, she adopts rescue pets, feeds ducks, defends live oak trees from newcomers, and works on her own Complex-PTSD so she doesn’t kill her really obnoxious neighbors, all before naptime.

She has no ancestors who fought in the Civil War on either side of it. Sadly, for a conversation piece, none had been in organized crime either, despite some inner-family suspicions about her Irish Catholic side. The one-generation, late 19th-century wealth turned out to come from her Highlander Scots immigrants, which is totally weird and not the norm; bringing up the family question of, “Do we have a castle?” It’s in ruins. None left New York to do anything ever except fight wars until her parents’ generation invaded North Carolina in the 1990s.

As an undergrad in anthropology, she was not above using the tight ethnic bonds with professors to ace written exams about ridiculously long-named Aztecs. She comes from a long line of Celtic Boudica-type women, and she is the great-granddaughter of a suffragette.

Why is there a Native American (Lakota specifically) character? In an age where the Stupid virally infected (see Warning!) are coming out from under rocks in the USA, evidently, all things must be explained. Or else the Stupid make up defamation and spread it on the internet to harm authors’ means of making a living. Below is a quote from the Book Eight prologue:

“The character family name of ‘White Feather’ is based on the call sign of a Vietnam War US Marine Corps sniper, Carlos Hathcock, who had 93 confirmed kills. In the author’s very pro-warrior upbringing in a white ethnic US Armed Forces/DoD/Pentagon family, she was raised knowing about the Lakota as warriors and the dishonorable horrors of what happened to them since. As a child, the author believed the sniper mentioned above was Lakota … until looking him up as an adult and learning the mixed heritage man was of Native American ancestry but not of that specific Native Nation. It stuck, and from him came Ben Raven as well as the family name of his cousins, White Feather.”

To contact the author: katjojojones@gmail.com.