The Author's Study

JC Mitchell is a novelist writing atmospheric, character-driven fiction. Across a growing shelf of series — the undead, the unsolved and the grid-down — JC's stories share a single question: how do ordinary people endure when the world around them stops making sense?

The zombie universe is where it began: The Fordsham Chronicles follows one ordinary family through the first days of collapse as a virulent outbreak tears the country apart, while The Zombie Fall of Britain is a sweeping fifteen-book saga charting the fall, fracture and uneasy rebuilding of a nation the dead never truly left. Together they form one continuous British apocalypse — intimate where it needs to be, epic where it matters.

A different kind of collapse drives The AI Blackout, a post-apocalyptic prepper survival thriller series that imagines a world thrown back a hundred years overnight when the grid fails and the systems people trusted simply stop. For one family, survival means remembering what their grandparents always knew — the same family everyone had laughed at for prepping, until the lights went out and the laughter stopped.

On the quieter side of the shelf, crime: The Stone Witness: Kate Hardwick Mysteries is set among the buried Roman, medieval and modern layers of Chester, where DS Kate Hardwick reads the city's old stones the way other detectives read crime scenes. The series blends literary atmosphere with procedural tension, and is joined by the speculative standalone novella Everyone Remembers the Murder — a thriller about memory, witness and a killing that hundreds of people remember but no camera recorded.

When not writing, JC lives with her husband and their food-loving greyhound, splitting her time between the North West of England and Canada — two landscapes that keep finding their way into the books.

Two very different worlds, but the same belief that runs through every book on the shelf: that the heart of a story is always the people in it.