Welcome

Welcome to the official website of author Jody Ewing.

Jody has worked as a professional writer for the past 20 years. Her published credits include more than 400 feature stories and articles, an Iowa Cold Case series, an author interview series, the book "One Way: Bumps and Detours on the Road to Adulthood," the Amazon Short "Pull," and many other writing/editing projects including both original and commissioned screenplay adaptations.

Her Sioux City, IA, cold case series spawned the Iowa Cold Cases website, which Jody launched in 2005 and continues to expand to include all Iowa cities and counties with unsolved homicides and longtime missing persons cases.

In addition to her writing, Jody has worked on numerous political campaigns, ran for the Iowa legislature in 2002 and has served as county chair for four presidential candidates.

On August 28, 2007, Jody's stepfather of 25 years, Earl Thelander, suffered second- and third-degree burns over 80% of his body in an explosion caused by copper thieves, and he passed away four days later in an Omaha hospital. Six days after his funeral, Jody's mother Hope was diagnosed with Stage III, Grade 3 invasive breast cancer and subsequently underwent a mastectomy. Hope has since successfully undergone chemotherapy and radiation and is in remission. Earl's case has gone cold and is now listed on the Iowa Cold Cases website, but the family remains hopeful.

Jody says her mother Hope has always been her role model and continues to serve as her greatest source of inspiration.

"Her entire life parallels an epic novel filled with all these magnificent challenges, yet she's faced them all with such unwavering courage and optimism she couldn't help but emerge the true heroine she is," Jody says. "She always told me, 'Everything happens for a reason,' and seems to have this innate sense of how all life's jagged pieces somehow fit together to create a beautiful whole."

Jody credits that strength for her own determination to make a difference in the lives of others through her writing, political activism, and work on cold cases.