Jaida Jones is an American author. Their most prominent work is the 2008 fantasy novel Havemercy, co-written with Danielle Bennett.
Jones attended Saint Ann's School from kindergarten through high school. They later studied East Asian languages and cultures at Barnard College.[1] Before becoming a published author, Jones co-wrote a Harry Potter fan fiction story called "The Shoebox Project" which gained a massive following online.[2] It was during this time that Jones met Danielle 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.[3][4]
In March 2019, Jones and Bennett announced they had sold another book, Master of One, a young adult (YA) fantasy which was published by HarperTeen in November 2020.[5]