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JC Andrijeski


Biography

JC Andrijeski has published novels, short stories, essays and articles. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and webzines, and a children's story of hers was published in an illustrated anthology by Wonderella. She also published a graphic novel set in the world created in her Allie’s War series, and has penned the occasional screenplay. Her nonfiction articles cover subjects from graffiti art, meditation, psychology, journalism and history, and have been published in venues ranging from online arts and literary magazines to print venues such as the NY Press.

She moved from NYC to San Francisco in 1997, and since then has lived or spent considerable time in India, Vancouver BC, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, San Diego, Prague, London, Berlin, Sydney, Australia and Swinoujscie, Poland. She currently lives in McLeod Ganj, India, a location she drew on a fair bit in writing the Allie's War books.

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Where to find JC Andrijeski online

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    Where to buy in print

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    Books

    The Image of My Own Death    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 12310 words. Published by White Sun Press  on April 24, 2013. Fiction.
    What if the last man whose mind you'd ever want to be inside could re-experience the life of anyone they want, just by looking at a photograph? Meet our not-hero, who, while he claims he's never killed anyone with his own hands, may or may not be a serial killer anyway. When he meets Jack, who shares his 'peculiar interests,' it might be a marriage made in heaven...but what does Jack want exactly?
    War: Allie's War, Book Six    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $6.99 USD. 163950 words. Published by White Sun Press  on April 20, 2013. Fiction.
    Allie returns to NYC bedraggled, beat up and with the world crashing down on her head. Shadow’s deadly disease now blankets the planet, and everything points towards apocalypse, including New York itself, now locked in a military-run quarantine. To top it off, Allie’s husband, Revik, is acting decidedly strange, and Allie learns Shadow is coming for her next, with his new pet, War, at his side.
    The Slave Girl Chronicles: Part III, "The New Order"    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $4.99 USD. 78730 words. Published by White Sun Press  on March 11, 2013. Fiction.
    (4.00 from 1 review)
    Jet finds herself going from slave owned by the Royals to honorary member of the Royal family, pretty much overnight. It doesn't take her long to figure out this is hardly a prize, and that her new role as Laksri's official consort is likely to get her killed. Meanwhile, the Ringmaster Trazen seems more determined than ever to put Jet in her place as a 'mammal' and a slave.
    The Morph    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $4.99 USD. 143820 words. Published by White Sun Press  on February 24, 2013. Fiction.
    Dakota Reyes, a 26-year-old private eye specializing in what she calls ‘hard-to-prosecute’ cases, finds herself in a dark alley one night, about to end up dead...that is, until a lost, shape-shifting alien named Nihkil rescues her, and inadvertently takes her home with him. The problem is, his home is in a different dimension, and Dakota has no clue how to get back to Seattle, or even Earth...
    The Birthday Present (A Lynx & Vargas Vignette #1)    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $3.99 USD. 23200 words. Published by White Sun Press  on January 10, 2013. Fiction.
    Lynx thought a lot about what to give Vargas for his birthday, her mysterious 'not-boyfriend' whose appearances and disappearances could make her head spin. She finally decides on a present of two hot-looking submissives from her friend Dez's club, a BDSM hangout in downtown San Francisco. But Vargas is full of his own surprises that night, and things don't go quite as Lynx plans...(explicit)
    The Slave Girl Chronicles: Part II, The Royals    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $3.99 USD. 84320 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 5, 2012. Fiction.
    Now a slave of the Nirreth Royals, Jet spends her days babysitting the heir to the alien throne and her nights training for the Rings, the Nirreth televised sport where humans navigate perilous courses, trying to stay alive. As the first female ever to run in the Rings, everyone expects Jet to die in the first round…but the way things are going, Jet will be lucky to make it to the match at all.
    Knight: Allie's War, Book Five    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $6.99 USD. 256610 words. Published by White Sun Press  on June 28, 2012. Fiction.
    (4.00 from 1 review)
    With several groups of hostile seers hot on their trail, Allie and Revik set up camp in New York, dragging the remnants of their seer alliance with them. Then a human-killing virus strikes in San Francisco and Allie’s friends start to disappear, forcing her to decide whether to try to save those who are left, or go to war with the mysterious Shadow, who seems to want to wipe out humanity entirely.
    Shadow: Allie's War, Book Four    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $6.99 USD. 222490 words. Published by White Sun Press  on December 11, 2011. Fiction.
    0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
    Following the disappearance of her husband Revik, the infamous ‘Sword’ and leader of the rebellion against humanity, Allie finds herself despised by every free seer in the western world…and most of those in the East. Even those on her own side think she’s lost her mind when she decides to try and save Revik on her own, despite the fact that he’s as likely to kill her as thank her for it.
    New York: Allie's War, Early Years    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 47230 words. Published by White Sun Press  on November 5, 2011. Fiction.
    Allie calls it her New York jinx. Already she’s had to deal with her boyfriend’s obnoxious band groupies, a stalker leaving cryptic notes, having to watch a seer get tasered. She also keeps running into this weird cop who’s got some kind of issue with her. But when she’s targeted by a religious cult for an end of the world ritual, her visit goes from annoying to quite probably fatal.
    The Alien Club    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 29080 words. Published by White Sun Press  on October 12, 2011. Fiction.
    Suki thought she knew what she’d signed up for when her pal, Rishi, invited her to a corporate party at one of the new alien fetish clubs. The new “must have” experience for the uber-rich and uber-bored supposedly involved sex-starved aliens who could give orgasms just by looking at a person. But when Suki arrives, she soon finds out that the clubs are really about something else entirely.
    The Kung Fu Instructor: An Erotic Novella    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $3.99 USD. 15310 words. Published by White Sun Press  on September 21, 2011. Fiction.
    Dylan wants to be a ring fighter more than anything. If she could just stop obsessing about her gorgeous kung fu instructor, Luc, she might be able to focus enough on the martial arts to be able to pull it off. But the dreams she’s been having about him for the past few weeks, convincing her that she knows him somehow, make that well nigh impossible, (Explicit material).
    The Slave Girl Chronicles: Part I, The Culling    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 48800 words. Published by White Sun Press  on September 1, 2011. Fiction.
    0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
    Jet is a 19-year-old skag, one of the humans still living free on Earth following an invasion of creatures called the Nirreth. Squatting in the ruins of Vancouver, Canada, Jet and her family eke out an existence underground, hiding from the culler ships. No one knows where the ships take the people they grab, but they never return. When a culler finds Jet, she may discover the truth the hard way.
    The Box: An Indian Tale    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 16400 words. Published by White Sun Press  on August 24, 2011. Fiction.
    Priscilla putters along in her usual life of bridge and gossip and coffee shops and shopping at the local markets in the small Indian town where she lives, until one morning, the mysterious man known only as the Pharsee gives her a box. The thing is filthy, twitchy and just plain wrong…but no matter what Priscilla tries, or how many cleaning boys she fires, she simply cannot get rid of it.
    Elephant    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 19170 words. Published by White Sun Press  on August 3, 2011. Fiction.
    Didier is an elephant, but he isn’t sure if he likes being an elephant all that much. He lives in Mumbai with his mother, who tells fantastic tales of the wild, before humans captured her and turned her into a domestic animal. Neither she nor the rest of Mr. Rahol’s herd, however, understand Didier's quest to determine whether it might be better to be some other animal instead.
    Marla the Lemur    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 12820 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 31, 2011. Fiction.
    Marla’s boyfriend, Billy, might live a little too much in a fantasy world. Then again, Marla sees lemurs in the apple tree outside and wonders if the little man she sees screaming at her from Billy’s shoulder is actually there. Insanity might be one way to get out of a bad relationship. Following your boyfriend into his imaginary world might be another.
    The Vampire Market    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 22000 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 29, 2011. Fiction.
    Vlad is a bored, irritated vampire living in San Jose, California. Tired of the neverending parade of life, cable television and boring food, he lets his friend, a flatulent demon named Roz, talk him into a night on the town at the monthly Vampire Markets at the Winchester Mystery House. Little does he know, Vlad’s life will never be the same again.
    Daydreams of the Apocalypse: A Collection    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $4.99 USD. 49440 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 12, 2011. Fiction.
    Nine stories of the apocalypse, from the point of view of an ex-stock broker, a crow, a young girl, a soldier turned holy warrior, a club-going hipster, a nerdy street punk, a beige-wearing businesswoman, a sentient automobile and a being who incarnates every few centuries only to be killed and have to do the whole thing all over again. Extended version includes the novella The Alien Club.
    Monkey: An Indian Tale    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 20090 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 10, 2011. Fiction.
    (5.00 from 1 review)
    Tugli lives happily in a metal box on a friendly street where vendors hawk wares and a Buddhist stupa sits at his back. Everything pretty much goes the same way, every day, until the day the pickle lady stops delivering the pickles. After that, a disgruntled monkey, a three-legged dog and a kindly old woman pretty much disrupt the course of Tugli’s life forever.
    Snowfall    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 16410 words. Published by White Sun Press  on April 21, 2011. Fiction.
    Sent on a recon mission to a planet long abandoned to the devastation her species wreaked on it, the girl is shocked to find survivors after so many years. But a long time has passed and the world these strangers have built is based on rules she can't comprehend...even before they force her into a test that might get her killed.
    Sword: Allie's War, Book Three    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $5.99 USD. 177180 words. Published by White Sun Press  on April 11, 2011. Fiction.
    0.5 star(4.50 from 4 reviews)
    After losing her husband only months earlier, Allie finds herself the new official face of the seer race, fighting to prevent humans and seers from exploding into all-out war. But her husband, Revik, isn’t really gone. Instead he’s transformed into someone she barely knows. Unlike her, he wants war...and revenge...and will do whatever it takes to bring the human civilization to its knees.
    Bird Magics    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 14770 words. Published by White Sun Press  on March 2, 2011. Fiction.
    0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
    Ulak is a crow. A berry addict and eccentric in the crow community living in the courtyard behind a row of white houses, he decides one day that the humans have to die. Convinced he knows the secret to making this happen, he shares his ambitions with his two friends, Fark and Jaak. They, of course, think he’s nuts...at least until the white lights begin to appear in the sky.
    He Lacks Utility    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 15710 words. Published by White Sun Press  on February 27, 2011. Fiction.
    Reggie Brinks just wanted to ride out the deadly virus that threatened to kill the world. A few months in cryogenic freeze while they came up with a cure, and he’d be right as rain. But the civilization that greets him on the other side is a pretty far cry from the one he left behind, and infuriatingly, he finds his opinions and money just don’t have quite the pull they had when he left.
    Shield: Allie's War, Book Two    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $5.99 USD. 167850 words. Published by White Sun Press  on January 16, 2011. Fiction.
    (5.00 from 7 reviews)
    Grappling with her identity as "Bridge," a being thought to herald the end of humanity, isn't even Allie's biggest problem. She's also dealing with being married to a seer while trying to stop the Rook she put in the White House from starting a war. Then the boy appears. A highly dangerous telekinetic seer, he doesn't appear to have aged in over 100 years. Worse, he thinks Allie belongs to him.
    Dirt    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 12810 words. Published by White Sun Press  on January 13, 2011. Fiction.
    Due to an untimely mishap with a runaway piano, a thief and a homeless lady with a very pointy umbrella, Harold gets to know some of his neighbors living in a single tree planter box on a New York City Street.
    Rook: Allie's War, Book One    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $4.99 USD. 153890 words. Published by White Sun Press  on January 9, 2011. Fiction.
    0.25 star(4.21 from 19 reviews)
    28-year-old San Francisco native, Allie Taylor, at least thought she was human. But when she meets her first real seer, a race of human-like beings discovered in the 1900s, he tells her that not only is she a seer, like him, but that all the other seers believe she's going to end the world. Unfortunately, no matter what she does, everything that happens after that only seems to prove him right.
    New Girl    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 14650 words. Published by White Sun Press  on October 13, 2010. Fiction.
    Calling the new girl at the office, Lucy, odd is more than a tad bit of understatement. In a short period of time, she frees Amber of her inhibitions, her prestigious corporate project, her teeth, her sense of style...and her sanity. A bizarre tale of corporate cannibalism, or a generous sacrifice for a fellow human being? It all depends on your perspective.
    ...Beware the Jabberwock, My Son    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 16170 words. Published by White Sun Press  on October 13, 2010. Fiction.
    (5.00 from 1 review)
    A squad of soldiers takes a ride out to the middle of nowhere, thinking they’re being punished for posting pictures of the Lieutenant’s old lady. But in an empty stretch of desert lives a cave where they stumble across a man whose presence they can’t explain...who speaks in riddles and seems to know them. Before they can figure out what he wants, they're already marked men.
    Organic    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 13010 words. Published by White Sun Press  on October 1, 2010. Fiction.
    What if in the future your car were made of as many animal parts as machine? What if it became self-aware and less and less enamored of toting you and your family around, getting its seats covered in ice cream and being left in parking lots for hours on end? What if it and some of its friends decided to do something about it? In Organic, meet your car. And be nervous. Very, very nervous.
    The Program    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $0.99 USD. 13350 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 12, 2010. Fiction.
    A successful, beige-wearing business woman is minding her own business, blending in, not making waves. But after hundreds of identical business motivation conventions, each with their own system for getting ahead, maximizing your potential, executing success, demonstrating excellence…she meets someone who offers to show her the evil pattern behind it all. Sort of.
    Karma    by JC Andrijeski
    Price: $2.99 USD. 9740 words. Published by White Sun Press  on July 12, 2010. Fiction.
    What if Hitler and Churchill were actually playing out an age-old battle between two rivals that had been incarnating together over and over across time? Exploring roles from evil to good to lazy and decadent in an attempt to understand the human experience, one of these beings seems destined to destroy the other, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how much the world changes over time.

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