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Organ

Organ

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Digging Graves

Digging Graves

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Bulldog 1: Too Many Monsters

Bulldog 1: Too Many Monsters

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Bulldog 2: And Dead Mouths Open

Bulldog 2: And Dead Mouths Open

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John-J Anderson

John-J is an author whose work delves deep into the human condition, blending horror, poetry, and real-life experience. He is the five-star-reviewed mind behind Organ, Digging Graves, and Bulldog: Too Many Monsters. With a passport stamped in over 42 countries, he draws on global myths, cultures, and human encounters to craft stories that are as dark as they are compelling.

When not writing, he rescues and rehabilitates stray and abused dogs, showing a compassion that stands in stark contrast to the darkness he explores in fiction.

Crash out for Christmas

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Yesterday was my 33rd birthday and today I am in that weird wake that comes from celebration hangover. The day after you get whatever you want, that odd feeling of normalcy setting back in while you realise that in a short time you are back to usual until the next cycle of the planets. It has been a bit of a stop-start month. I have fallen off from my momentum of writing that I built up over November, instead I am now writing pieces and bits as and when inspiration sets in. Which has been irregular these two weeks of December that have come and gone thus far.  I am grateful that I finally got a break to see my family again, my niece is growing up so fast and seeing her figure out the world is one of the purest joys I think you can feel. Seeing my family, especially my parents, this time of year is always bittersweet. It just reminds me that those Christmas's have come and gone, those Christmas mornings at home as a kid where you feel that buzz of excitement the night before and won...
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December Arrived Four Months Late

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Welcome to the grand illusion. What song is that from, feels like Styx but I have zero knowledge of music beyond the ripples of my emo-phase in school. So what has been going on with you?  Work has been busy lately, so I am using that as an excuse for my third Bulldog book slowing in momentum. Some of the dogs have been needing extra care beyond the usual, one poor girl had an eye removed and one big boy has been adjusting to a life beyond his family at the agonising old age of 15 years. Rescue work can become a heart wrenching beast if you let it all in, but you have to have skin like a ducks plumage to survive in this line of care. Let it all run off and leave you dry.  Writing through the workload. The writing is moving, just at a pace so agonisingly slow that lately it has been flickering some embers of anxiety. Tiny little sparks that keep me aware of what I am NOT working on. Helpful in the way that a healthier mind can harness anxiety/dread and use it to push on towards...
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Twenty Thousand Words

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Before I get into another informal blog summarising the goings on with my writing and general life happenings, I wanted to make a note of the passing of a family member. My Uncle Phil, my mothers brother, passed away recently and has now been laid to rest. While I am not always close with my family, Uncle Phil's death came as a shock that struck everyone deeply. I wish his wife and his children as much peace as I can during such a horrific time. Tell your family you love them, it can happen to anyone at anytime. I remember Uncle Phil's room back from when I was child, it had pictures and posters from magazines of pin-up girls and motorbikes all over the wall. I remember him wearing baseball caps every time I saw him, his mopeds in the front garden and I saw the tenderness   in my Mums eyes when she spoke about him.  So before I get into anything unimportant like writing stories, I just wanted to wish a restful sleep to Uncle Phil, whatever does come after, I hope you've fou...
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Mary Shelley - An Apology.

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Remember a few months back, maybe it was weeks, that I wrote a piece reviewing the science fiction classic by Mary Shelley: Frankenstein. Sparing everyone the need to go back and read what I wrote then, I essentially wrote that I found the book a joyless read with passages that downright bored me. Its obviously a classic, its obviously ground-breaking and its obviously one of the greatest works every written by a female author. But it didn't catch me in the way I expected it would, THAT BEING SAID. I recently watched the new Frankenstein movie from Netflix, and let me tell you, I have a new appreciation for that book. The movie was a mess. It is going to be lauded as a work of brilliance by the recency bias appreciators but this might have been the weakest adaptation I have ever seen for this source material. It flies as close to the book as it dares while changing fundamental aspects of the story to make it more palatable for todays audience. For the first time in my life I had th...
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