About Me

From Italy.
Official site at giovanniarduino.com.
Best-selling writer.
Freelance editor and consultant.
Novels published in Italy, USA, Japan, Germany, Spain, spanning various genres (young adult, dark fantasy, modern fables, pop culture, literary erotica) under many different pseudonyms (Joe Arden, Jonathan Snow et al), mostly with an edgy and quirky slant.
More than 500,000 copies sold in Italy alone.
Since 2003 writing under his own name because he got fed up with all those monickers!  
First editor, then senior editor, and from 1997 to 2006 consulting and editing (as resident editor-at-large) for Sperling & Kupfer Editori/Frassinelli's young adult, media tie-in and general fiction/non-fiction lines. He recently left Sperling & Kupfer for newborn Elliot Edizioni in Rome.
Heavily tattoed.
Dresses in black.
Charming disposition.

Giovanni Arduino

Welcome to my lens. Welcome to my world thru links, feeds, books, photos, songs, videos and such.  I hail from Italy. I'm a writer, freelance editor and consultant. I got novels published in Italy, USA, Japan, Germany, Spain, spanning...