JG Grimmer | Author, editor, caffeine-addict, wannabe ninja

Now that we’re back on Earth (gravity be weird), we’re heading into the next of Cohesion Press’ Author Spotlights with JG Grimmer. Now, there’s much secret squirrel business here, and one thing I am very good with is secrets… for no other reason than my memory is shite. JG might have had something to do with that, but he swears otherwise…

While I’ve been chatting away, JG has already sidled onto the stage is giving epic side-eye, so I’ll scamper back to my little den of darkness, and let the man himself bring you all up to speed. Take it away, JG!

JG’s imagined things long before putting pen to paper, now there’s no stopping him! Born and raised somewhere on Earth—though there’s some dispute about that—JG knew he wanted to be a writer from an early age, and began pursuing that dream in what they used to call junior high school. What with Life and other things getting in the way, JG began to see success; modest at first, but eventually leading to bigger and better things, especially his first story, Beast Trap, being accepted and published in SNAFU: Last Stand! Followed by contributions to SNAFU: Holy War, and SNAFU: AI Insurrection.

In 2025, JG published his first novella, In the Shadow of the Swastika: A Sherlock Holmes Noir, with MX Publishing in London, and on October 9^th of this year, his second book, Bare Knuckle Empire: A Sherlock Holmes Noir, was released.

For SNAFU: Level Up, JG figured why not go swimming? And penned his tale LEVIATHAN’S HOARD: catastrophic glacial collapse, a drowned world and monstrous, mythical creatures of the Deep. Oh, and Bait, the poor schmuck who must play the game.

Yes, yes, I know. I am still shit at the regularity of Festivus Book Pimping, but get ready for a deluge! It’s gonna rain books, my friends! And while that may appear painful… BOOKS!

Right then, let’s get this party started.

Today, we’re going to settle into some military horror in the form of SNAFU: Last Stand, the latest release from Cohesion Press. Fourteen stories from fourteen amazing writers from all over the world, and with a foreword written by Hollywood director, Tim Miller (Terminator: Dark Fate, Deadpool). Tim loves the SNAFU series, and stories from some of its tomes have been reimagined in Netflix’s Emmy-winning animated series, Love, Death & Robots (you really should check it out, it’s killer), in both season one and the upcoming season two.

As the editor-in-chief of Cohesion Press, I’m partial to the books, and this one especially. Working with editor, Matthew Summers, the stories cover the gamut of ‘last stand’, and with a linear timeline, we move from Neanderthals right through to future warfare. There’s cosmic horror and voodoo, Sumerian gods and biological ‘gone-wrongs’, giant maggots, killer ‘skitters’, and huge fucking bats… to name but a few.

With the theme of ‘last stand’, you get to the best and the worst in people, the heroics and sacrifice – survival is very much on the table but those pickings be slim. Last Stand shows the mettle of those thrown into untenable situations and what they’ll do to beat back that tide. Each is a law (lore?) unto itself, and it’s a hell of a ride.

Here’s the blurb:

“This is it, mofos. This is the end game. We’ve got nowhere else to go, and no bugger’s coming to save us.
We’re either doing this or we’re gonna die trying, because it all depends on you. There is no going back. So lock, load, and get ready to rumble!”
SNAFU: Last Stand is a collated anthology of short stories of a final battle, no matter where it is or who it involves.
It’s the Battle of Thermopylae, the Alamo, the Battle of Mirbat, the First Battle of Mogadishu, the Battle of Hel, and Custer’s Last Stand, all rolled up into one badass monster-fighting basket of SNAFU-style action.

SNAFU Last Stand