Organ

Organ

Buy on Amazon
Digging Graves

Digging Graves

Buy on Amazon
Bulldog 1: Too Many Monsters

Bulldog 1: Too Many Monsters

Buy on Amazon
Bulldog 2: And Dead Mouths Open

Bulldog 2: And Dead Mouths Open

Buy on Amazon
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.

Nothing Happens at Home - Poem

-

Nothing Happens at home. 

No demands or job descriptions.

No mandatory interactions or ceremonies.

My home is a place where warmth is the hourly rate and comfort is my job.

I can read books in silence.

I can write epic stories no-one will ever read.

My home is the place I can discover my real self. 

My home is the place I can be the strongest man in the universe or the bubbliest man in the tub.

I can cuddle my cat and tell her she's loved now.

I can watch my turtles swim in silent sploshes.

My home is full of things I can eat, without ever checking the labels.

My home is the place my family can always find me, it's my lighthouse when life's a storm.

I can lose myself in a record.

I can sit quietly at my desk.

My home is the place I will always be missing.

My home is the centre of the universe.

I can forget that all else exists.

By John-J Anderson

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Bulldog Conundrum

-
Image
 Bulldog: Too Many Monsters has been my most successful book release to date. Quickest summary possible for those unfamiliar with the story; its a dystopic military horror set in the United Kingdom after being invaded by an unknown army. Residents are plunged into sick contests to see if they can survive against the mysterious, horrifying, hordes of monsters the invaders have brought with them. That's the elevator pitch anyway.  I came up with the idea after having two dreams back to back that appeared identical, in similar vain as the mini-blurb above. Originally this was intended to be a short story, perhaps a couple of pages, instead this has morphed and oozed itself into a fleshed out series of horror books. The first (Too Many Monsters) has just been temporarily taken off sale while the cover is reimagined in the image I originally envisioned, having sold over 100 copies, it felt like it was slowing down and the right time to get what I dreamt of out of the cover design....
Read more

New Life For This Stumbling Corpse

-
Image
It's a Wednesday, the first in four weeks that I've had off, and guess what I did. I finally landed on that cursed mailing list that has been testing my patience and sanity for weeks. It's done. It's over. The beast of a chore is dead and buried six feet below alongside my aspirations to be a professional wrestler.  Oh, what could have been. I toyed with the ideas of Wix, Squarespace and yadda yadda yadda but none felt right. And if you follow my blogs (because I'm not present anywhere else) you'll know that I often make choices based solely on my gut.  I call it my caveman vibe, if it's off, that hairy ancestor of mine gives me warning and something I don't understand tells me to act.  I'm waffling already. Looks it's late and I'm all hopped up on endorphins from actually doing a thing off that list! I couldn't figure it and decision paralysis was setting in like Medusa herself had those seductive eyes on me. So I took a brea...
Read more

When did Bulldog become the enemy?

-
Image
I am at the daunting midway point of a break from work. The days have trickled by as I mixed up seeing family, farting about in the local towns, playing Diablo 4 with the wife and finally getting my collective faecal matter together in the writing projects that lingered over my burnt out corpse. After having gone through stage zero of my eleven step plan to push book sales, and ideally become a more active writer and less active marketer, I have tidied up the established novels that I have published. Given them a fresh kick up the backside and turned my attention back to the always present task of finishing the Bulldog sequel (Bulldog 2: And Dead Mouths Open).  With the weight of this tarting up of my old works now complete, I have turned my attention to this unfinished follow up and the always nagging task of getting more visible reviews on Amazon to shift more books. Don't get me wrong, 280+ sales in 8 months is some prime time, head in the clouds, unthinkable business for someon...
Read more

Vegan Men and Real Strength

-
Image
Real strength in men is not about dominance or aggression. It’s about discipline, empathy, and moral conviction, the courage to live by your principles even when the world mocks or misunderstands you. Vegan men embody this kind of strength because they choose compassion and restraint in a society that equates masculinity with consumption, cruelty, and control. The Crisis of Masculinity In a world full of social media loudness, aggression in the streets, parliament and media and domination through subjugation or violence. It takes a lot to remain calm and true to yourself, when it would be entirely justifiable to give in to the base impulse for joining the loudest crowd. That unfortunately is currently weak men masquerading as true warriors of masculinity. We are in a crisis, and it will be the youngest of our brothers and sons who fall into this pitfall of pseudo-masculine speakers preaching of strength through dominating the vulnerable. If we can be honest, the western world that I c...
Read more

And Dead Mouths Open

-
Image
Ring the bells and silence the beast in the shed. I have completed and submitted for review the sequel; Bulldog 2: And Dead Mouths Open. This sequel follows immediately up on the events of Frank and Bucket from the Bulldog 1: Too Many Monsters, unravelling more of the mystery behind the invading force that has taken the UK by force. Its a zombie adjacent monster military thriller with elements of science fiction and human survival.  I know every author you read or watch will fan the positive flames of their work with every release, but Bulldog 2 is a really enjoyable book. It has been fun to write, exhausting the edit and invigorating to see my work come to life again. You will be able to pick it up on Amazon, either paperback or eBook as early as the 29th of this month. But I would recommend you take the time to read the shorter first entry into the series before hand so you can enjoy the terrifying tale of Frank and Bucket first. It builds the foundations for the world that the s...
Read more