About JC Andrijeski

JC Andrijeski

JC Andrijeski has published novels, novellas, serials, graphic novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction essays and articles, including the romantic alternate history apocalyptic series, Allie’s War, along with the “new adult” dystopian series The Slave Girl Chronicles, and her Gate-Shifter series about shape-shifting aliens and a tough-girl PI from Seattle. JC has also written broodier novellas and shorts, such as The Alien Club, Bird Magics, Elephant, …Beware the Jabberwock, My Son, and Karma. JC has traveled extensively and lived abroad, but currently lives and works in San Francisco, California, where she enjoys drinking coffee until she sweats and staring too long at random strangers.

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No Rules for Writers

woman editing writing

Apologies in advance if this column is scattered...I’m moving tomorrow, packing up my life once again and relocating to the Oregon Coast as of about 4am, so I’m currently a bit distracted. And … [Read more...]

There is No End Point

writing

I had the extremely good fortune last week to be able to attend a pro writer workshop that focuses on craft. I kind of doubt there are many of these kicking around. Believe me, I’ve been looking for … [Read more...]

The Mythologies of Writing Fiction

Financial Growth

I admit, my brain is pretty full this week. Almost too full, really, with big things that have a lot of ramifications like Steubenville and its aftermath, cyber-battles between the United States and … [Read more...]

The Ethics of Writing – Do any exist?

Opinion

Okay, so this may be a strange topic for a writing column; I mean, who thinks about writing and ethics, per se? We aren’t lawyers, after all. It’s not like most writers are out mugging old ladies … [Read more...]

The Importance of Environment

Questions

One thing I've definitely learned with all of the moving and traveling in the past two years, is the importance of environment when you write full time for a living. Moreover, and more specifically, … [Read more...]

Six Things to Think About While Traveling If You’re a Writer

Travel

So, it occurs to me I've never written on this topic, which strikes me as kind of funny, really, given that I've lived abroad for the past year and a half. Since I'm traveling in a lot of foreign … [Read more...]

Being an Honest Liar

Thinking writer

I can't remember who originally authored the quote describing novelists as people who "use lies to tell the truth" (as opposed to politicians...or perhaps statisticians?). Anyway, while I really am … [Read more...]

Writing is Solitary

Opinion

So I have no idea if this post will be remotely helpful, but as I was thinking about what to write about this month, I was hit with a somewhat overwhelming feeling surrounding one of the stark … [Read more...]

10 Surefire Ways To Kill Your Fiction Writing

Opinion

So I thought for this series of six monthly columns, I’d focus on writing, since there are far, far (far, far) more qualified people to talk to you about marketing and blogging and that kind of … [Read more...]