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Jo Rooks |

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Speaker 1: Hello, my name is Jo Rooks. This hasn't always been my name. When I was first born, my parents called me Katie, then changed it to Joanne, after a few hours. And my surname used to be Morris. So for the first 30 years of my life, I was Joanne Morris. And when I got married, I took the name of Rooks. Then I began writing books and rather liked the fact that Rooks rhymes with books. My husband used to be called Rooksy Booksy by his friends because he liked reading books so much and my children also love books. So we are the Rooksy Booksy family. Very few people call me Joanne, probably only my dad. I prefer Jo, Jo-Jo or Joss, to people who know me really well. So I decided to go with Jo Rooks for my author name, and that's it. That's my name, Jo Rooks.

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