Welcome to Jen Mierisch’s author site. Here you’ll find humor, horror, and a lot of stuff in between.
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…
Haunting the Airwaves: WMFO Interview
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of appearing on my friend Sue Edelman’s radio show, “Something About the Women,” the longest-running women’s music radio show in the United States, on WMFO (91.5 FM, Medford, Massachusetts). We chatted about my recently published story “The River’s Revenge” (RED LINE: Chicago Horror Stories, From Beyond Press, 2025)…
The Relentless Push of AI Tools
My day job is at a Fortune 100 company (you’ve definitely heard of it). I’m on the enterprise digital team, working on the company’s websites and other online products. The company has made AI tools available to us: Microsoft Copilot and a handful of others. At first, it was “Use these tools where it makes…
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