Welcome to Jen Mierisch’s author site. Here you’ll find humor, horror, and a lot of stuff in between.
Anti-AI Guidelines With Style
It should surprise nobody that creative writers, and most publishers, aren’t fond of the use of generative AI to create fiction. We got into this because we love writing, not because we wanted to outsource it to robots. We tend to be vocal in our distaste, sometimes strident, often colorful, because we are artists, not…
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…
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