Jaida Jones

Jaida Jones is an American fantasy author. Her most prominent work is the 2008 fantasy novel Havemercy, written with coauthor Danielle Bennett.

Jones attended Saint Ann's School from Kindergarten through 12th Grade, then studied East Asian languages and cultures at Barnard College. Before becoming a published author Jones co-wrote a Harry Potter fan fiction story called "The Shoebox Project". She met Bennett in a Livejournal thread and the two started writing a novel together. The resulting novel, Havemercy, was picked up by Random House for an advance of $30,000 and published in 2008.

In March of 2019, Jones and Bennett announced they had sold another book, Master of One, which is a YA fantasy forthcoming from HarperTeen in Fall 2020.