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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.

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.

Releasing Control, Finishing Chapters and Struggles with Publishing

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When did April fools day become just another corporate advertising tactic to milk into oblivion, I opened my phone this afternoon and saw shit jokes from companies trying to stay relevant with the young folk by posting unfunny attempts at April fools jokes. I know big business already destroyed most things we love; football, movie streaming, reading, podcasts etc, it looks like April fools has been added to the list of things made shittier by money (Yay!).  Finishing Chapters Anyway, I am back to work tomorrow. I took four days off as holiday giving me nine days in total to get my knee sorted and spend some time actually resting after a tiring (emotionally and physically) start to the year. Well that break turned out to be a disaster as I threw my shoulder out almost immediately upon the break starting, had a doctors appointment for me knee pain and caught a crappy cold that knocked me on my arse for three or four days. Silver lining, I got to catch up on Bulldog 3 and managed to f...
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Ignoring Writers Block, Physical Media and some Knee Pain.

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This March weather is testing me, I think its been cold for about eighteen months now. Anyway, I am on day five of a much needed holiday break from work, I took a block of days off rest up around a doctors appointment with a bone specialist to check out that nagging knee problem (finally). I intended to just relax, rest up as work has been incredible testing lately, and perhaps get some headway into the tail end of this third Bulldog book. In reality thus far I have spent time with the cat, had my knee appointment and got my home in order again - also been cooking a lot which I've enjoyed. So lets get into the tofu of this weeks update. Ignoring writers block. I wrote eighteen pages for Bulldog final chapter involving Cleo & Jacob, I then deleted them all as they didn't feel natural to the characters. Now I am slowly creeping back through that final chapter and as I approach its end, and the end for some of these characters, I have found myself struggling to ove...
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Deleting 14 Pages, Whole Foods and Good Endings.

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I wrote a blog post some weeks ago in which I spoke about deleting four pages (some low number like that. I really don't want to go check) and at the time it felt like a huge amount of effort just erased. Well, I just deleted fourteen pages of writing from the final Bulldog novel because I decided to go another way with the chapter concluding Jacob and Cleo's stories. This week I wanted to discuss how that feels, removing hours of effort from your manuscript just to save the rest of its fluidity, I also wanted to discuss veganism but more importantly my strives to become whole-food plant based and also good endings both in life and literature. We can have a little catch up on everything else before I wave your ship back out into murky waters, let me ramble for a minute. Those fourteen pages, I want to call them collateral damage for the greater health of the novel, they came from days of sitting around at the desk and pulling imaginary hair out of my head. Writing fucking suck...
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Developing as a Writer

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Its the 3rd of March, 2026. I felt it was time for another update, another lurid peak behind the curtain as I do my best to write these stories that rattle around in my head. As you already know, I am working on the third book in the Bulldog series - the final book before I close the cover on this series for good. Not that I haven't enjoyed writing it, but I dwindled on the completion of the third part for too long and now as I wade through and get to the finish line, I do find myself looking eagerly at other projects sitting in my notes. Just one line ideas that get the creative juices frothing more readily than the idea of finishing this story. BUT, it must be finished and as of right now I have finished the entirety of Franks chapters.  I should explain. This book will be unlike the first and second which follow a main protagonist (Frank and then Victoria) throughout. Bulldog 3 follows individuals as they navigate the final days of the events from books one and two. If y...
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