About Jo Szewczyk
Blue-collar and Oxford-educated, Jo Szewczyk writes books that look you in the eye.
His memoir, Surviving Gen X, hit Amazon’s top charts by dragging raw memories into the light and making them sing. Now he’s turned that same nerve on crime fiction with The Scarlet Mysteries. Book one, Scarlet Shadows, puts a busted-up taekwondo champion, a former doctor who’s lost her sight, and their unpredictable friend on the trail of a Las Vegas secret someone will kill to keep buried.
Before that, he founded Empty Hell, a run of horror anthologies that raised more than $40,000 for charity and went out swinging with Music’s Over, featuring his interviews with Joe Bob Briggs, David Dastmalchian and Andrea Perron.
He’s covered the alt Las Vegas beat since 1998, hosts the What’s Kraken? and Streamin’ Demons podcasts, emcees award shows, and does voice work. Former martial artist. Professional ne’er-do-well. Champion of stories that bite back.
