Mod About You Media Company is a creative agency founded by Sarah Jio & Brandon Ebel.

We’re focused on cool content: books, podcasts, digital media & more. Launching in 2019, the Mod About You podcast, hosted by both Sarah and Brandon, will feature interviews with fascinating people and cover topics including happiness, health, love and relationships, home and design, travel and so much more.

We’re based in Seattle, but usually on a plane bound for anywhere from Santa Monica to Istanbul, and many places in between. 

Sarah Jio

A #1 international, USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, Sarah is the author of ten novels with Penguin and Random House Books Her novels include THE VIOLETS OF MARCH (a Library Journal Best Book of 2011 and a USA Today bestseller), THE BUNGALOW, BLACKBERRY WINTER (an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, as well as a multi-country international bestseller), THE LAST CAMELLIA (a Kirkus Books Most Anticipated Book of 2012), MORNING GLORY, GOODNIGHT JUNE, THE LOOK OF LOVE (an iTunes Best Book of November 2014), ALWAYS, which debuted in hardcover from Random House (Ballantine) in 2017, as well as the international bestseller, BACK TO YOU. To date, Sarah’s novels are published in more than 25 countries, including Italy, the UK, France, Brazil, Turkey, Slovenia, Ukraine, Russia, China, Norway, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Macedonia, Holland, Spain, and many others.

Most recently, her new novel in Turkey, BACK TO YOU, became a #1 bestseller. A magazine writer and former columnist for Glamour magazine, Sarah has written thousands of articles and blog posts about subjects such as health and happiness, love and relationships, food and cooking, and more, for publications such as The New York Times, Redbook, O, The Oprah Magazine, Cooking Light, Real Simple, Fitness, Marie Claire, Seventeen, Health, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Parents, and many others. She has also appeared as a commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition. Sarah lives in Seattle with her three young sons and is at work on her tenth novel, to be published in 2019 by Random House.

Brandon Ebel

Music industry veteran, Brandon Ebel is the founder and president of Tooth & Nail Records, which he founded in 1993 in Newport Beach, California, after graduating from Oregon State University and working at both Virgin and Frontline Records.

Later moving the company to Seattle, with the sub labels, Solid State Recordings and BEC Recordings, Ebel and his team have sold more than 26 million records, signing and producing artists such as Jeremy Camp, MxPx, Supertones, Kutless, Underoath, Thousand Foot Krutch, Anberlin, Emery, Mae, Hawk Nelson and many more. Jeremy Camp, MxPx, Supertones, Kutless, Underoath, Thousand Foot Krutch, Anberlin, Emery, Mae, Hawk Nelson. The company boasts many Grammy-nominated artists and gold-certified albums. Ebel, who continues to run Tooth & Nail, is also a real estate investor with projects that include apartment buildings, restaurants and single-family homes. He lives in Seattle with his three children.