Jo-Anne Christensen
Jo-Anne Christensen is the popular author of numerous Ghost House books, including the best-selling Campfire Ghost Stories, Haunted Halloween Stories, Haunted Hotels and Ghost Stories of Christmas. Jo-Anne was raised in small-town Western Canada. She says the somewhat limited local entertainment options - mostly curling and hockey - led to an early love of reading, particularly anything with a paranormal flavor. Jo-Anne's fascination with the unusual quite naturally led to a ten-year career in radio advertising but, in 1993, she left radio to pursue two equally strong ambitions: a life of freelance writing and the determination to never again write another sixty seconds of hard-sell used-car copy. By this time, true ghost stories had become Jo-Anne's favorite reading material. After years of collecting such tales from distant locales, she decided to starting writing about what she knows. And the rest is history. These days, Jo-Anne writes from her home, where she lives with her husband and children. She now has cable television and all the entertaining amenities of a larger city, but still prefers a good book ... especially if it's a ghost story.