About the Author

First off, thanks to you, kind visitor, for taking the time to visit my little space on the web.

My name is Joseph Jackson (J.J.) Field. I am a writer with aspirations to share my stories with the world, and for the world to greatly enjoy them. That is all.  Everything else that could come along with that is all fine and good, but really, I just want to write great stories and reach as many people as I can with them.

My love of creative writing and of horror started young, and they grew together. I think it began when my mom would tell me about the horror movies she watched as a young adult. The one that always stood out to me was A Nightmare On Elm Street. She told me all about Freddy Krueger: the razor-sharp blades fixed to his glove, the tattered green and red striped sweater, the horrible burns marring his face. If you die in the dream you die in real life. Oh yeah, I was hooked. Mind you, I wasn’t allowed to watch the movie, not at the age of five or six.

So, it became up to my imagination to sustain my fascination. I drew pictures of Freddy: “Mom, does this look like him? Is this how he looks in the movies?” I wrote stories about him: “Mom, does this seem like something Freddy would do?”“

Before long, I began to make my own drawings: creatures from my own mind. I wrote short stories, created horror magazines, and only wanted toys and action figures that could fit into the category of “grotesque” or “deranged”. Let the other kids have the G.I. Joes!

At the age of ten,  I stood in front of my fifth-grade class in Lincoln, Nebraska and read the first chapter of my dark fantasy epic: Aronisie. Granted, the first chapter is all there was, but it wasn’t bad for a ten-year-old.

Eventually, the rigors of adolescence caught up with me and squashed much of my creative juice in one way or another. Dreams of creating monsters and writing novels were replaced by typical teenage obsessions – movies, sports, video games, and the like.

After going to college and obtaining a Computer Science degree, I joined the corporate world. Funny enough, I think becoming a programmer was actually my first step back into the realm of creation. I spent several years grinding it out as a traveling software contractor, but it just wasn’t doing it. I couldn’t stand the meetings, the PowerPoints, the fluorescent-drenched offices littered with sad, gray cubicles. It was a horror movie in its own right. I felt stifled. I needed more. I needed to balance out the real world with a heavy dose of the imaginary.

It began as a whisper in the back of my head. A tickle. Start writing again. Start creating. My wife echoed these whispers. In fact, she may have planted the seed to begin with. “Start writing again,” she would tell me. “Just a little bit each day. It doesn’t matter what it is – write anything!”

So that is what I started to do.

Each morning, I would sit in our faded living room chair, typing furiously on my laptop until the sun rose and it came time to throw on my corporate digs and drag myself out the door.

Fast forward from 2021, and I am entirely possessed by my rekindled passion for stories. I am all in on spending my life doing this, in whatever capacity I can.

I know I have much to offer the world. So many stories. Stories that outright scare, stories that incite horrified chuckles, stories that gnaw at your stomach well after the final page has been turned.

The next step is publication. I’ve been doing the writing – now it’s time to get the stories out. My debut novel, Eleven Keys, is polished and ready to go. It will emerge from the dark one day. The publishing cogs turn slowly. But trust me, you won’t want to miss that one.

Thanks again for stopping by. Stay a while, enjoy yourself. Read about my upcoming novel and short stories to learn a little more. Join my newsletter for publication updates and much more! 

Welcome to the journey’s start. I’m excited to have you along for the ride…

– J.J. Field