Jo Usmar

Jo Usmar is a freelance journalist and editor, writing for a huge range of titles and covering a variety of topics. She spent 18 months as Cosmopolitan’s Sex and The Not So Single Girl columnist, writing about life, love and relationships in her role as one of the ‘faces’ of the brand. She has interviewed Joan Collins and Vanessa Paradis for Stylist, Heston Blumenthal for Heat and One Direction for The Sun’s TV Magazine. She’s been interviewed as a representative of The Mirror on Sky News talking about the dress code at Aintree Ladies’ Day and writes regular health, lifestyle and opinion features for Fabulous. She also works extensively online, completing opinion pieces, topical features, news stories and blogs for Cosmo, The Mirror, 3am.co.uk, Heat and Fabulous.

Jo spent several years in commissioning in factual entertainment and features at Channel 4. She worked on shows including The Sex Education Show, How to Look Good Naked, Embarrassing Bodies, Undercover Boss and Heston’s Feasts, generating ideas and reversioning US programmes for UK broadcast.

Jo is co-author of the bestselling THIS BOOK WILL… series of handbag-sized self-help and lifestyle books published by Quercus and translated into many languages. They offer sound expert advice on the most common life-affecting issues women typically experience. The books are authoritative yet light-hearted, funny and accessible, providing clear and simple ways to understand and overcome problems. Two further titles, THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU FEARLESS and THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL were published in December 2016.

Jo is also much in demand as a ghostwriter.

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