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Jonathan Roe (born 1 October 1990) is an English Author, Student and Musician. He is often noted for his low-pitch singing voice and charasmatic style in which he performsref and distinctive blue eyes

A native of Arnold, Nottingham, Roe went to Warren Primary School and then Big Wood School. After achieving seven passes at GCSE he joined Bilborough College, where he is now currently studying for A-Levels. He first began to write stories after he left secondary school, as he wrote a story for his English GCSE and decided it was brilliant enough to be carried on. He has since written more than twenty short stories, four full-length novels and three novellas. He published his first short story, Sometimes They Come Back' ,in October of 2007, and has published five more up to February 2009. He and his nextdoor neighboor formed a band in the summer of 2007 to 'pass the time', and recruited three members, including Jonathan's cousin, Steve, who is led guitarist.

A resident of his home town, Roe travels every weekday to Bilborough College, but has expressed a desire to quit college, as he finds it 'boring', but is still attending.

Early Life

Born in Arnold[7], and raised there, Roe is the youngest of two children. His father, Martin, works for a sales company and his mother is a probation officer. Roe started writing stories at the age of ten, but soon gave up. Roe did well academically at primary school, but often got into trouble at secondary school and only just passed at GCSE level in all subjects. He was reguarly caught smoking behind the bike sheds, in the toilets and in the car park by all teachers. This caused him to be suspended twice, for three days each. He since says 'it was worth it'. He had some trouble fitting into life at college, and often skipped lessons, but has since settled down and decided getting into trouble is 'not worth it'. Keen on football, Roe played as goalkeeper for Bestwood Colts FC, Rise Park FC and Calverton Colts FC. He has since quit playing football after a knee injury at age sixteen. He would often hang out at his local park with his friends, smoking, meeting girls and drinking until the police turned up.

Writing

Roe started writing seriously soon after secondary school. He started writing to 'get a decent living', 'make something good out of my life, I'm not going to do a boring nine-to-five job, come home and go to the pub. I wanna make something out of myself, to see if I really can'. He has also expressed his desire to write to 'impress girls'. When Roe first started writing, he would sit at an empty table with an idea and write until something decent came out of it. He would often sit writing for a few hours, then get up, put the manuscript away and go out. His first ever short-story wrote, 'Sometimes They Come Back', was considered good enough for an online magazine to publish it for a fee of £195. Roe was said to be so overjoyed at recieving the cheque, that he stood looking at the cheque for a considerable amount of time and then burst into tears. He now says that he writes for an hour a day, aiming to write 1,500 words in that time. He has been known to write 5,000 words in an hour. His first novel, which is unpublished, is called 'The Reckoning'. He wrote it in three months 'on and off', and is said to be 90,000 words long. Roe has said it is his 'worst piece of work', and 'was written about nothing in particular'. He has only showed it to his close friends. His second novel was written soon after 'The Reckoning', and is named 'Chloe'. It is about a girl with pyschic powers, especially telekinesis, and is extremely similar to Stephen King's Carrie. Roe has said that 'it is a tribute to Carrie, has similar themes, but is a totally different plot'. 'Chloe' is said to be slightly shorter than 'The Reckoning', at 85,000 words. Roe has only shown the novel to close friends. His third novel, 'Warren Hill', took a year to write. Roe says it is 'my best novel' and is said to be in the region of 190,000 words long. No one has yet seen the novel. His published short-stories are 'Sometimes They Come Back', 'The Boogeyman', 'Smoking Is A Death Wish', 'Strawberry Spring', 'Lola' and 'The Crops'. They all contain horror themes. Roe has converted his garage into his own personal writing room, where 'nobody can enter when there is a keep out sign on the door'. He writes on a wooden desk in the middle of the room.

Music

Roe co-founded Outlaws in 2007, on a hot July day when he had nothing else to do. The group consists of Roe as lead-singer and songwriter. Roe's cousin plays the lead guitar, his two next-door neighbours play drums and bass, and his cousin's friend plays the secondary guitar. Roe writes the lyrics, and 'we all jam to make a tune'. So far, they have created a total of seven songs, four of which are on the band's MySpace. Outlaws have so far managed to get any gigs. They used to practise three times a week, in Roe's next-door neighboors garage. Since his next-door neighboors have moved out, the band practise in their new garage in Rise Park. Roe sees Outlaws as a hobby, and reckons it will never get serious, although 'I am cut out to be a rockstar. I have the voice and the moves, what else?'

Personal Life

Roe has dated different girls on and off for the past few years, and has never got serious with anyone. He specifically goes out to town and Arnold at the weekend to find girls. He enjoys casual sex, and says 'it's the best thing in the world'. In December 2008, it was alleged that Roe had a fight with two people at a pub in Arnold which ended up with Roe setting off a fire extenguisher at them. Roe turned out worse, however, and had to be treated for a black eye and a punctured nose. Roe likes to comment on world news, and dislikes the Labour government. He has a dislike for the EU and GreenPeace. He doesn't believe in global warming, saying scientists make it up as they go along.

Roe is also known for his short temper, which led him once to repeatedly hit his computer with his mouse until the screen broke. He hated fellow pupils at school, and often arranged fights for after school with different pupils. He believes keenly in Buddhism, but has not started practising.