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Jon Smith is a best-selling author of twenty books for adults, teens and children, and his work has been published in seven languages. The librettist and lyricist of four musicals, Monte Cristo, Scary Musical, Naughty Pour Homme and Like Me, his shows have been performed in London’s Park Theatre and Waterloo East Theatre, The Birmingham Hippodrome and The Waterfront Theatre in Belfast.

Jon has a Masters degree in Scriptwriting from Bournemouth University. His first film Beyond the Bridge premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2016. He was Associate Producer on Ikonic Film's feature Kidnap Me (2017) and Producer on Savannah Moon’s The Quarry (2018). He has served on the Executive Council of Writers’ Guild Great Britain. He won Best Screenplay at PAGE International Screenplay Awards for his Cambodia-set feature film script Hidden, and in 2023 he won Best TV Pilot at Shore Scripts for the television drama Monkey Wrench.

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Jon Smith is the bestselling author of 18 books for children, teens, and adults. His books have sold more than 500,000 copies and are published in seven languages. In addition to writing books, Jon is an award-winning screenwriter and musical theatre lyricist and librettist with productions at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Belfast Waterfront and London’s Park, Waterloo East & Courtyard theatres. 

Jon enjoyed a happy childhood—making daisy chains, holidays in the sun and an obsessive interest in all things fantasy. No brace, few spots and only one broken bone and one broken heart (not his). It all went swimmingly.

Father of four, he lives near Liverpool with his wife and their two school-age children. 

When he grows up he’d like to be a librarian.

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