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Name: George Elmer
Based: East Anglia, England
Genre: Folk horror and dark urban fantasy
Published titles: 5 novels (Out of the Grave, Precious Vile Things, These Kind of Knaves, Crimson Prince, Valerian Bone)
Education: BSc (Hons) Psychology and Criminology
Website: www.georgeelmer.com
Press contact: hello [at] georgeelmer.com

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Dark urban fantasy and folk horror author. Part-time historian. Total Viking nerd. Will talk for hours about Norse mythology.

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George Elmer is an author of dark urban fantasy and folk horror, writing for people looking for worlds with wit, a little magic and taking control of your own destiny. At heart, she’s a history nerd who can’t help but make up stories. You can visit her website at www.GeorgeElmer.com.

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George Elmer is a folk horror and dark urban fantasy author from rural East Anglia, a land that has never quite shaken the strangeness that came with repeated medieval conquests. She holds a BSc in Psychology and Criminology, has spent a lifetime obsessing over the history and mythology from Norse to Aztec to Japanese, and has a particular gift for stripping complex ideas back to their bones until they make sense. She writes gritty, folkloric fiction with real consequences, shares knowledge without gatekeeping, and will always tell you the truth, even when it’s the last thing you wanted to hear.

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Books

Folk Horror / Mythological Retelling

Out of the Grave

A retelling of Theseus and the Minotaur from Ariadne and Dionysus’ perspectives. Rooted in Greek mythology, told without the comfortable distance of legend.

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Dark Urban Fantasy

Precious Vile Things

An amnesiac must uncover his lost identity before figures from his past use his ignorance against him. A dark, tightly-wound story about identity, manipulation, and the danger of not knowing your own history.

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Folk Horror / Dark Fantasy

These Kind of Knaves

A man finds a black magic spell book and tries to leave behind a legacy. A story about ambition, folklore, and the very human desire to be remembered.

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Dark Urban Fantasy

Crimson Prince

A sorcerer living in New York must solve his grandmother’s murder before the killer kills him. Dark, fast-moving, rooted in magic and family legacy.

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Dark Fantasy

Valerian Bone

An alchemist accepts a teaching position at a school for magic to solve his fiancée’s disappearance. A slow-burn dark fantasy about obsession, magic, and the lengths a person will go to for love.

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I listen to video game soundtracks while drafting and anything not UK Top 40 while outlining, editing, and formatting. Assassin’s Creed Soundtracks (Black Flag, Unity, Syndicate, Rogue, Odyssey, Origins, Valhalla), Captain America: The Winter Soldier Soundtrack, Tamino, Fall Out Boy, Florence + The Machine, and The Hu are repeat classics.

Cynical, sarcastic, morbid. I know people would call my writing cynical. I also have a habit of doing nasty things to innocent characters (Precious Vile Things). I don’t do fluffy romantic comedies unless I can criticise them. It links back to my cynical nature.

Most of the time it happens before I write the first draft. I’ll come across a phrase or quote I like and think, “That’s it, that’s the title.”

That Way Madness Lies (the original title for Valerian Bone), These Kind of Knaves, Out of the Grave, and Precious Vile Things are all (mis)quotes from various Shakespeare plays.

Their ability to manage everything and produce a fantastic story. I read stories with complex characters in detailed, made-up worlds, who develop throughout the novel. I aspire to create stories like that, but I can barely manage to create a character arc for one character.

My ideas for stories are everywhere and anywhere. I usually have so many ideas I end up merging them into one massive story idea, and this ends up all the better. I passed a woman with dreadlocks once, years ago now, and she was the primary inspiration for Amaryllis in Crimson Prince.

I fell in love with the Medieval period and Arthurian legends separately, and the idea of a slightly more historically accurate trilogy stuck with me for years as it grew into the monster it is today. I’m not sure I’ll ever publish it.

Manic. I spend a bit of time mulling over an idea, and only if I can stick with the story long enough to draft it does it become a book. The outlining process is mad and I ask myself a lot of questions about it. The actual writing takes place in the morning, I aim to write three scenes a day every day and try to make that word count over 1,000 if I can. I’ve used NaNoWriMo to help me either finish or get a good half of my books written.

I hide a lot of references in my stories, so much so I can barely remember half of them, and they were obscure at the time of writing. I also reference and/or mention mythology quite a bit, tie it into the mythos of my own worlds and get as close to the myths as I can.

I’m also a research buff, quite a few of my stories are as accurate as possible, even if I never get around to writing them. I go down quite a few rabbit holes to find the things I need for my story, such as the age limits for Medieval Knights, who wore what when in the year 1507, and how to create a course syllabus from scratch.

Many people ask many questions about my sanity.

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