Jason Arnopp

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Jason Arnopp is a British novelist and scriptwriter, with a background in journalism.

He wrote the 2011 horror feature Stormhouse[http://www.scanner-rhodes.co.uk/press3.html "Scanner-Rhodes embarks on Stormhouse"]. London. 1 August 2010. and has scripted Doctor Who audiobooks{{cite web|url=http://www.audiogo.co.uk/audiobook/30100/the-sarah-jane-adventures-deadly-download |title=The Sarah Jane Adventures: Deadly Download | Audiobook | AudioGO : audiobooks, CDs, downloads |publisher=AudioGO |date= |accessdate=25 December 2011}} and plays{{cite web|url=http://www.bigfinish.com/news/The-Demons-of-Red-Lodge-Revealed |title=News |publisher=Big Finish |date=16 August 2010 |accessdate=25 December 2011}} for the BBC and Big Finish ranges. In 2012, two of his horror stories, "Beast in the Basement" and "A Sincere Warning About the Entity in Your Home" were published for Kindle. He has contributed to BBC Radio 4's Recorded for Training Purposes{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tdr21 |title=Radio 4 Programmes - Recorded for Training Purposes, Series 4, Episode 5 |publisher=BBC |date=19 August 2010 |accessdate=25 December 2011}} and Laurence & Gus comedy shows. His background is in journalism{{cite news|author=Nicholas Clee |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/08/featuresreviews.guardianreview32?INTCMP=SRCH |title=The Bookseller: May 8 | Books |work=The Guardian |date= 8 May 2004|accessdate=25 December 2011 |location=London}} and he has regularly written for the likes of Heat and Doctor Who Magazine. In December 2013, he was a talking-head on Channel Five's The Greatest Ever Christmas Movies (Objective Productions).

In 2016, his novel The Last Days of Jack Sparks was published by Orbit Books.{{cite web|url=http://www.jacksparks.co.uk/ |title=Jack Sparks 1978-2014 |publisher=jacksparks.co.uk |date= |accessdate=7 June 2017}} It has since been optioned as a movie by Imagine Entertainment.{{cite web|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/ron-howards-imagine-options-british-novel-jack-sparks/5116445.article |title=Ron Howard's Imagine options British novel 'Jack Sparks' |publisher=screendaily.com |date= |accessdate=7 June 2017}}

Arnopp is represented by Oli Munson at AM Heath Literary Agents{{cite web|url=http://www.dencharnold.com/ |title=AM Heath Literary Agents |publisher=AmHeath.com |date= |accessdate=25 December 2011}} and managed by Lawrence Mattis at Circle of Confusion{{Cite web|url=http://www.circleofconfusion.com/|title=Circle of Confusion |website=circleofconfusion.com|language=en-US|access-date=8 June 2017}}

He used to be an editor for Kerrang! magazine;{{Cite web | url=http://www.jasonarnopp.com/kerrang.html | title=Kerrang!}} he appears as himself in Lords of Chaos, contacting Euronymous to inquire about the Black Circle.

His latest novel is Ghoster, published in 2019.{{cite web|title=Jason Arnopp |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/349456.Jason_Arnopp |website=goodreads.com |date= |accessdate=10 April 2020}}{{cite book|title=Ghoster |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason-arnopp/ghoster/9780316362283/ |date= 27 June 2017|accessdate=10 April 2020}}