JJ Flowers - The Spiritual Dog
In this episode I chat with award-winning screenwriter, playwright and author JJ Flowers. We have a chat about her latest book, The Spiritual Dog – an engaging book that combines the spiritual aspects and compassion of our relations hip with dogs. We also chat about what it takes to be a writer of multiple mediums. Have a listen, learn and enjoy!
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BIO:
I’m the author of The Spiritual Dog (Inner Traditions, 2026), a fun, poignant and powerful exploration of the spiritual connection we share with our canine companions. The book has sparked discussions about expanding it into a documentary. I also wrote Juan Pablo and the Butterflies, a Westchester Fiction Award winner. (Simon and Shuster.) I wrote Grief Is Love (Lantern Books)
Before this, I wrote award-winning historical romance novels (Avon Books, Zebra Books)—though I eventually had to step away when I began having fantasies about killing my heroines--in really dreadful ways.
My less than brilliant screenwriting career has seen scripts optioned by Warner Bros., Paramount, Julian Krainin Productions, and others, with four winning major awards. Clarence Darrow’s Last Stand—where the legendary lawyer defends an innocent Black physician—triggered a six-bid auction. I adopted it into a stage play and it became a finalist in the AACT New Play Festival. Most recently, Richard Harding of Sixth Sense Productions enlisted me to write The Emma Edmonds Story, the true tale of a woman who fought disguised as a man in the Civil War—a love story with the sweep of Titanic, set against America’s most explosive era.
I am a lifelong yogi (my mom gave me yoga books to help with my gymnastics and while gymnastics went the way of all things, yoga was forever) and I teach metta-meditation and pranayama to an international online group.
I currently live in Dana Point with my little dog Pip.
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