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Jo Hart

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Genre

Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Enid Blyton, John Marsden, J.K. Rowling, Mem Fox ...more

Member Since

October 2011

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Jo Hart lives in rural Australia with her children. She studied Education and taught primary school for several years. She is currently on a break from teaching to focus on her family and her writing.

Jo has short stories published in several anthologies, including 100 Stories for Queensland, Australian Literature: A Snapshot in 10 Short Stories and Literary Mix Tapes: Eighty Nine. Her stories generally fall under the genres of fantasy or thriller. She also loves writing children's stories.

Her cli-fi novella 'The Jindabyne Secret' is due for release Dec 2019. ...more

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What is CliFi? (The Rise of Climate Fiction)

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Unless you have been living in complete media and social media blackout this past week, you will have heard about the massive climate strike action by school children taking place all over the world the past few days, as well as Greta Thunberg’s passionate speech in front of the United Nations. Climate change and climate crisis have become major talking points (with good reason).

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Average rating: 4.43 · 123 ratings · 31 reviews · 12 distinct works

	100 Stories for Queensland by Jodi Cleghorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kate Eltham, Joshua Donellan (Goodreads Author) 4.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eighty Nine by Jodi Cleghorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rebecca L. Dobbie, Laura Eno (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jingle Bells by Rebecca Fyfe (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), C.A. Clark (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kelly Vavala (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jindabyne Secret really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SuperHERo Tales: A Collection of Female Superhero Stories by Rebecca Fyfe (Goodreads Author) (editor), Lizzie Koch (Goodreads Author), Bron Rauk-Mitchell (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teapot Tales: Pirates, Mermaids and Monsters of the Sea by Rebecca Fyfe (Goodreads Author) (editor), Eileen Louden, John Ciarmello 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deck the Halls by Jodi Cleghorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Jo Hart (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jen Brubacher (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lonely Wish-Giver by Allison VanNest (editor), Kimberly Joki (editor), Jo Hart (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful & Deadly: A Fantasy Collection liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Annabeth and the Wolf 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Time of Contempt (The Witcher, #2)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

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Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)

by George R.R. Martin

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Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5)

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I wanted to like this one as much as I enjoyed the first two books, and I did enjoy Quinn's writing and the way she brings the characters to life as much as the first two books, but it just missed the mark for me in comparison to the previous books. ...more
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message 2: by Jo

Jun 10, 2012 12:39AM

Hi Karen,
I'm really sucked into the story at the moment. I'm only a couple of chapters in so far, but being a teacher you've already tapped into one of my biggest teaching fears! It must have been terrible going through that, I think I would certainly have cracked if that happened to me. I love the layout of the book, too, you've done a beautiful and professional job of it!
Jo.
Karen wrote: "Hi Jo,
Thanks for reading " Me and Her: A Memoir Of Madness"
What do you think of it so far?
Cheers,
Karen :)"

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message 1: by Karen

Jun 09, 2012 02:32PM