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Jay Neill
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I write high-concept British Urban Fantasy that warps the familiar into the fantastical.

My standalone debut, The Terminus Of All Things, is a mind-bending urban portal fantasy set in the chaotic, dystopian world of Endland, a mirror version of England.
In my current WIP one of the characters wears an 'oversized changing robe'. I had used the brand name at first, because it's so ubiquitous, but pulled back when I saw how jealously they protect their name. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Dryrobe wins trademark case against rival waterproof changing coat D-Robe
Favourite with cold water swimmers wins court case in London forcing brand to stop selling infringing items
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"If you're looking for a hunky young doctor who wants to give back to his hometown, we don't have one unless you count Clint, a misogynist physician older than Methuselah who won't prescribe birth control to unmarried women."
Small-Town Mayor Is Done with Visitors Looking for Love at Christmas Time
Listen, I have to put my foot down. I can’t do this anymore. Every year we get so overrun by burnt-out single women looking for love during the hol...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Christmas wouldn't be the same without a hidden group of mythical creatures roaming the streets of London.

www.jayneill.com/angel for your free dark Christmas urban novelette.
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Feeling Christmassy, but not for the usual 'small town widower discovers the true meaning of the season when a hot mess LA lawyer is stuck there in a snowstorm' schmaltz?

Try my new dark Christmas fantasy—The Angel of Kings Cross—free as an ebook to all my community members.

www.jayneill.com/angel
Get your FREE copy of The Angel of Kings Cross
This FREE dark urban Christmas fantasy is a preview into the world of The LineFolk of London, my all-new series that launches February 16th, 2026 with the first book in the series, Curious Physiologie...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Delayed gratification as an author is tough.

My dark urban Christmas fantasy novelette publishes on Monday and frankly I'm not dealing with having a Sunday in the way.

FREE to my community members - www.jayneill.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What's the most batshit crazy thing your family didn't bother telling you for years and years? For me, it's that my Mum bumped (literally) into Frank Sinatra in a hotel lobby in Vegas in the 60s, and he helped her pick up the slot machine winnings that she threw everywhere as a result.
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Really sad to hear about the death of Jill Freud whom I had the privilege of working for as an assistant half a lifetime (mine) ago. She was an incredible woman then, and based on her daughter Emma's telling of her passing, remained incredible at the age of 98. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Jill Freud, Love Actually actor and inspiration for Lucy in Narnia books, dies aged 98
The actor ran her own theatre company and was described by her daughter Emma as ‘feisty, outrageous, kind, loving and mischievous’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Yesterday I made my wife come with me on the Circle Line from Baker Street to Embankment, rather than the far faster Bakerloo Line route, just so I could (for .05 seconds) see a railway cutting where I set a scene in my next book.

Because that's how I roll. A slave to my craft.
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Woke up early. Turned on the cricket. Stokes out first ball I listened to. Turned off the cricket.
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Just a reminder that there's an urban FANTASY book with an alternate England packed with long lost beliefs and brands, a RELUCTANT QUEST to save both worlds AND a super SLOW BURN love story.
mybook.to/terminusofallthings
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Have you read a book by an indie author recently? I bet it surprised you with how good it was.

Want to know how to support indie authors?

Review their books. Doesn't matter where, just put your bookish thoughts down and provide some social proof of how great indie books can be.

#booksky
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I've often advised indie authors who are struggling to finish/publish their book to set a deadline and create a sense of urgency.

But it works the other way too. My new novel COULD be ready within 6 weeks but I've announced a date of Feb 16th. It will be all the better for breathing.
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Does anything say "Christmas is here" like the wall of panatone at TK Max?
November 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Dark ✔️
Urban ✔️
Fantasy ✔️
London ✔️
Christmas ✔️
Novelette companion to a new five book series ✔️
FREE to my newsletter subscribers from Dec 1st ✔️

www.jayneill.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Endland is a mirror version of England-a resting place for forgotten brands, products, and beliefs. A chaotic realm built on the discarded remnants of English society. But is it The Terminus Of All Things?

mybook.to/terminusofallthings

#booksky #urbanfantasy
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I've learned that being an indie author is basically juggling...

Ball 1 - writing next book
Ball 2 - editing current book
Ball 3 - publishing reader magnet
Ball 4 - marketing first book
Ball 5 - planning all the future books
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
ARCs are now open for urban fantasy, Curious Physiologies, the first in my new LineFolk Of London series.

Be the first to read about a hidden London of mythical beasts, right under your nose, weeks before it publishes next February.

Sign up for the program at www.jayneill.com/arc

#booksky
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
10 days into the Novel November writing challenge and I'm at 9500 words across my LineFolk of London novelette (free on December 1st to newsletter subscribers) and Book Two of the series. Book One - Curious Physiologies - is already in the can!

www.jayneill.com
Jay Neill – Author
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November 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Why should urban fantasy The Terminus Of All Things deserve a spot in your TBR?

Because there's nothing else like it.

Reviewers are calling it:

"highly original"
"unlike anything you've read recently...or ever!"
"a quiet surprise"

mybook.to/terminusofallthings

Oh, it's on KU as well.
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It feels as though we invent new genres the whole time, and normally I shy away from that.

But today I learned that my novel is genuinely SalvagePunk and I am totally leaning into that.

Cobbled-together aesthetic. Falling society. Reuse. Repurpose.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FNX2BBXJ

#booksky
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you like your Christmas urban fantasy to be a bit dark, and a bit surprising, then you are going to love my FREE novelette-The Angel of Kings Cross-out on December 1st.

To get a ebook copy, all you need to do is become a member of my community at www.jayneill.com.
Jay Neill – Author
www.jayneill.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The cover of The Terminus Of All Things (British urban fantasy - portals - dystopia - nostalgia) is one of the loveliest things I've ever been a part of. And now I'm doing it all again for my new novel, Curious Physiologies.
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The Terminus Of All Things is nostalgic British urban fantasy. What happens to brands when they die? How do you make room for human creativity? And what happens when there isn't room for new ideas any longer? Spoiler alert: it's not good.

www.mybook.to/terminusofallthings

#booksky
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Alan Moore knows the score
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Your next urban fantasy obsession
Mybook.to/terminusofallthings
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM