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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.

Reading the Room

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Wednesday, the final day off before my work week begins again. Got lots on my mind today so lets get this all going before I spin out in uncoordinated madness. I wanted to discuss some quick topics that are floating around inside my aging skull, starting with my writing projects. Bulldog 3 is taking very real shape, the Frank chapters have been coming along at a rate I was not expecting and with the addition of a new character, the fire has been stoked. With the waking realisation that this book will be the closing chapter in the series, I find myself excited to get this done. Bulldog started as a side project, just a short story based on a nightmare I had one restless evening, but as often these stories do, it grew legs and climbed from the grave to disturb my calendar. Now I am looking at over a year into this project and the third book approaching its final draft. I have loved writing this series, I have loved the characters and the horror. But I will not be sad to see this finished...
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Passion or Protest - Another Amazon KDP Rant.

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 Its Monday, another work week has come and gone. Mud soaked clothes are in the washing machine and the sadness lingering over me of a dog I worked with being rehomed is fading. But I am not happy today, I am invigorated. You know by now that my writing is a passion of mine, its a way that I contribute back to the world in the way of story telling. I despise that I need big businesses like Amazon to help me with that, but these are wars and not battles, we win over them slowly until the landscape is more palatable.  If I led the ideal life that I strive for, right now I would be selling books from my own site. Diogenes was a proponent for doing everything the simple way, he made a beautiful quip once while watching a child drink water from cupped hands and threw away his cup. He remarked that he has been out simplified by a child. Could that level of simplicity be translated into writing, simplifying my passion and further propping up a protest against the "machine" as a bene...
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Poetry Deserves a Revival

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 It is likely you know of my affection for poetry if you have been following this blog or my books for any particular amount of time. I love poetry, I believe it is one of the best ways to get people troubled with anxiety, depression or anger to vent their feelings in a healthy creative manner. It certainly helped me when I was going through therapy a decade ago.  But what has become of poetry, it is certainly still alive. It manifests in the social feeds of the creatives and the un-creatives who share it from the authors. It is alive in song, music has never been more popular or profitable and what is a song if not a long form poem.  Here today I wanted to run through and assess a poem I wrote years back for the book I published, Digging Graves. It is a book that mixes short stories, experiences and poetry from my years working in a woodland cemetery and the haunting realities I witnessed there. Its currently my best seller, by some margin, and I can see why. In the worl...
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Gumroad and my Guinea Pig Guide.

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 Two blogs in one day, what is this? The end times?  Nope. Just tagging into the sentiment of that earlier blog post today, which you should go read as it sat on my chest for the remainder of the evening after finishing it. Rather prophetic.  I have just signed up and listed my first piece of work on Gumroad, its a website in which you can easily purchase and pay what you can for books, guides, tutorials and the like. As I attempt to rid the stink of Amazon from my mind, this place feels slightly cleaner.  Anyway, Amazon have me bent over a barrel in regards to releasing Organ, Bulldog 1 & 2 and Digging Graves until March. But for the time being, the Guinea Pig guide book I wrote in memory of Hero and Ghost is now readily available as a downloadable PDF.  Gumroad:  https://johnjanderson.gumroad.com/subscribe It is a system in which I have set a price £1.99 I believe, but you have to option to pay simply what you can afford or what you feel comfortable p...
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