Welcome to Jen Mierisch’s author site. Here you’ll find humor, horror, and a lot of stuff in between.
NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge: Round 1 Results
Now that’s a way to start the new year off right! Thank you, NYC Midnight judges, for ranking me first in my group in the Scary Story Challenge. I’m glad my bug story creeped you out. And I’m certain that’s not a beetle that you feel crawling up your leg. Just a stray hair, surely.…
2025 Year in the Rearview
It’s been a fun and eventful year in writing for this author: And that’s not all. I’ve written 74,000 words of my first horror novel, the idea for which came to me in a dream earlier this year. While I hoped to be done by year end, it didn’t quite happen, but it will happen…
RIP NaNoWriMo, Hello TrackBear
Many writers, myself included, have mixed feelings about the demise of the National Novel Writing Month website, nanowrimo.org. (To read about why it went kaput, visit nanoscandal.com.) NaNoWriMo motivated thousands of us to challenge ourselves and write 50,000 words or more in a single month. It was NaNoWriMo (and the writers who encouraged me to…
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