Hi everyone and welcome. Thank you for taking the time to visit. I’m totally new to this so please bear with me whilst I settle into the process and find my voice.

I suppose I should start by introducing myself. My name is Jenni Warrior and I’m a wannabe horror writer. I have been obsessed with horror ever since I was a little kid. Even when I was learning to read I was always drawn to things like Meg and Mog and Funny Bones. Then Nightmare Before Christmas came out on VHS and it blew my tiny mind. On Saturdays my dad would take my brother and I to Blockbuster and let us pick out whatever movies we wanted. Without fail, I would always choose the scariest looking thing I could find in the horror section. I can’t have been any older than 6 or 7, watching things like Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street. From that point onwards I was totally hooked (and perhaps more than a little bit traumatised). Michael and Freddy now feel like old family friends.

My first foray into the world of horror writing started in primary school when I wrote a short story for a class assignment. In retrospect I definitely plagiarised the plot from a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode, but put my own jazzy spin on it. My mum tells me that, although my teacher was impressed by my writing, she said my story had given her nightmares. Apparently she was a bit concerned, enquiring about if everything was okay at home. I consider this one of my greatest writing achievements. 

Sadly, as I got older writing became a thing of the past. As a teenager I had far more interesting things to think about, like booze and boys. Then it was time to be an adult and get a boring, shitty, regular job. To be honest, I pretty much forgot about writing altogether and decided I wasn’t a creative person. 

Then the pandemic hit. Although I kept working throughout the various lockdowns as a cat care assistant for a feline welfare charity, I suddenly found myself on my days off with nothing to do, staring into the void and becoming very depressed. I realised my life had become very unfulfilling and I didn’t feel like I was being true to myself. I felt like a bad actor in a cheap costume, playing the same role night after night on stage to a bored audience, saying my lines robotically and going through the motions. I knew something had to change. 

In 2021 I started studying Comprehensive Creative Writing with The Writers Bureau. Immediately I felt my passion for writing re-ignite and my mind was constantly buzzing with ideas and creativity. During the next 2 years I had many pieces of my writing published in various magazines, such as Readers Digest, Your Cat, Take a Break and Chat!. These successes gave me the confidence boost I needed to start pursuing my true passion; writing horror. 

Over the last 12 months I have poured my soul into the creation of my first ever full-length novel. The process has been gruelling and incredible. I don’t think you can truly describe the mental and emotional rollercoaster that comes with writing a novel. I believe it is something that can only be experienced first-hand. Now that I think about it, it probably would have been good blog content to write about the process from the beginning. Oh well, maybe next time. Now, after months of editing and re-writes, my little novel is finished and I am currently in the process of seeking agency representation in the hopes of getting it published. 

The purpose of this blog is to promote my writing, share updates on the process of my novel and generally just ramble about all things horror. Literature, films, T.V. shows, real life horror…I love it all!

Thank you for taking the time to read a little bit about me and my writing journey. I really hope you’ll stick around to see how things go. 

Until next time, 

Stay spooky.