Sigh! Getting smarter, or just one more step down to dumb!

My art site is up and running

Okay. Enough already. I will never finish the site I'm now posting, so I thought I should post it so you can watch it as it grows. I am quite prolific as an artist, as well as a writer and I thought it would be fun to put this out now, rather than wait for it to be perfect.

I realized it can't be, because I am always adding more and changing things.

So enjoy and visit my new art site by clicking on the link below. 

John Pirillo's Golden Realms of Art

The Case of the Vanishing Website has been solved!

Original illustration by Sydney Paget for the Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"It would seem Sherlock that we  have finally caught the culprit who was sabotaging Mister Pirillo's author site."

"I heartily agree, dear Watson. A most scandroulus situation has been nipped in the bud."

"What do you suggest we do about it? Doctor Watson asked.

"Why not give them the link so they can see all the dastardly things that Mr. Pirillo has been doing in his spare time."

Doctor Watson chuckles. "What spare time?"

"Why, his play time, his sleeping time and his lunch time, of course.

"But how could you possibly know that, Sherlock?" Doctor Watson gasped in surprise.

"Elementary, really. Were he an ordinary human being he would be sleeping a full eight to ten hours every night. He would be stuffing his face with scones...."

"Wait!" Watson interrupted. "That's what I do!"

"Quite right, dear fellow, and you would do well to stop that, or you'll get fat!"

"Uh, huh, I see." Doctor Watson said in a grumbly voice. "So what else clued you in to this man's tireless behavior?"

"The fact that he has been up for several hours already typing this little story before he even thinks of going downstairs to make his morning meal."

Sherlock turned around and looked up at Watson, then took a quick puff on his pipe. "I suggest we get properly dressed, because he's about to put us through some horrible conditions in our next story, " The Case of the Vanishing Hero."

"What manner of clothing?" Watson insisted on knowing.

Sherlock rose from his comfortable position and stretched. "That, my dear Watson, is for the author to tell. Now let us prepare!"

"Very well." Watson replied, grabbing a scone from the plate Mrs. Hudson had left for him, and hoping Sherlock hadn't seen him pocket several more. "I will post the link here right away!"

"Great, Watson. Now let us hurry: 'The Game's Afoot.'"

www.johnpirillo.com

my author site is fi finally working!

www.johnpirillo.com is now working!

Log on to check out the goodies!

Yay!

Journey to the Center of the Earth trailer with original artwork from the manuscript by Jules Verne

Original artwork for Center of the Earth and other juicy things.

all images on this post are courtesy of: wikipedia

Above image is the 1878 edition cover of Jules Verne's classic. 

Below is an Amazing Stories cover for it.

Below is the actual mountain that Jules Verne used as the place of descent into the center of the earth in his classic.

 

Journey to the Center of the Earth novel is finished!

Over the weekend I was one busy little beaver.

I finished the final edit of my Journey to the Center of the Earth novel. I will post the cover in the next day or so.

I hope to publish that to a tradebook version as well. I'll keep you posted as to the progress of that as I am able.

Meanwhile, the first novel is a greatly expanded version of the first eight stories I told about the Journey and more connected. I had a lot of fun expanding the characters and giving them more cool things to do as they go deeper beneath our planet.

Hopefully, their journey will ask questions in your mind about many things that we take for granted, but perhaps won't afterwards.

I had a lot of fun expanding and joining everything and I think it's a great read at over three hundred and fifty pages!

 

Above is an image of what international satellites spied floating just above the moon's surface before the first Hollow Earth Special Forces team descended into the depths.

Below is an image of what some scientists believe to be the shape of our inner earth.

 

And below this line is a fantasy perception of what the center of the earth looks like.

The above illustration was taken from one of the original publications of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Captain Nemo's Nautilus artwork posted

I have just finished the cover to my new novel about Moriarity and hope to have the final editing done before the end of the week. I should have the digital version published on Amazon and Smashwords by Friday.

I'll post the new cover when I get time.

Meanwhile, above is an illustration I made of Captain Nemo's Nautilus, which is used in my Moriarity novel. I think it's really sleek looking and fits the style of the alternate world of Moriarity.

Reverting my pro site back to Weebly's free site until pro site fixed

Hey Everyone.

Still having trouble getting Yahoo and Weebly to agree with each other on what's wrong with my johnpirillo.com site so I've reverted the site back to Weebly's free site, which is more limited, but still allows me to post and for you to see it.

Until I can get the problems worked out with Weebly and Yahoo I have reverted my pro site back to the following: Golden Realm Stories

Sorry for the delays!

John 

The Scorpion King

For all you folks who enjoy Mister Johnson, here's another photo.

Well, he looked pretty good and offered a new hero to the masses in the Scorpion King. Little did they know their villain would turn out to become a good guy later on. Dwayne Johnson rules in the muscleman roles these days.

Looking forward to his next G.I. Joe movie.

Silly Disney Hercules

More Hercules for all of you who like looking at muscle men and men of legend!

Kevin Sorbo...nice TV version of Hercules

The original Hercules Steve Reeves, who starred in Hercules and Hercules Unchained and a bunch of other sword and sandal movies there were hot for their time and fun to watch.

The newest Hercules and best so far.

Where would we be without marvel to take it to the next level!

 Hercules comic book!

Hercules! Yay!

Saw the Dwayne Johnson version of Hercules tonight and loved it. It's got a lot of heart! If you haven't seen it, give it a shot.

Mr. Johnson is getting better and better as an actor.

Stargate

New Stargate movies are coming! Yay!

Cartoon

Ever feel like you're having one of those days?

More photos in Conan story

Added more photos of old London for your viewing pleasure of old London and its more foggy times in the Conan story.

Some frustration with my author site still going on

"What do you mean my author site isn't working?" 

I scream at the top of my lungs to the universe while micowaving a chocolate doughnut that melts into a puddle of cocoa and sugar!

 Image courtesy of: Humor District:  http://humordistrict.com/tag/the-simpsons/

More of Baker Street Snippet posted and some cool images added

Hey everyone!

Added some more to my Baker Street Snippet. Just click HERE to go there to read the story and see some cool images.

I'm now working on a new Sherlock Holmes story which I think will be very interesting to those who love all the mythologies about him. Takes place in the alternate England I created prior to this and involves Stoenhenge in a very sneaky way.

Meanwhile, until that's done, here's some more Sherlock stuff.

Naughty Sherlock cartoon

Courtesy of: http://joyreactor.com/tag/sherlock%2Bholmes

Some Sherlock Holmes illustrations by Sydney Paget. Great old time stuff and announcements

I am beginning work on my Sherlock Holmes novel now.

Just completed the Moriarity novel and will publish to Amazon and Smashwords by weekend's end. I hope to have a tradebook copy printed shortly as well and will keep you posted on that.

Will be publishing my first novel in my Journey to the Center of the Earth series this weekend on both Amazon and Smashwords. I hope to have a tradebook copy printed shortly as well and will keep you posted on that.

New article in The Pen's Delight with illustrations

Hey!

I'm still trying to get my main site up and running. I spent hours on the phone with a young woman from India and was told it would work now and still it doesn't.

So frustrating. I'd much rather spend the time relaxing or writing, but....

Anyway, posted a rather long article on state of the world conditions now and compared it to historical events and science fiction ones.

You can read it by clicking HERE.

Best to all.

John

Working on an art site now. Here's some examples.

A fractal flame design.

Somewhere it would be nice to be.

Grape jello!

A nice swim would be great about now.

Some Sherlock Holmes covers I designed and three cartoon Holmes

 Two different covers I designed for my Baker Street Adventure A Strange Thing on a Strange Day.

Some cartoons

New theme for my blog.

Hope you like my new theme for my blog.

Best.

John

Next piece of Baker Street Snippets: The Death of Conan is posted tonight!

Just published on Amazon and Smashwords for 99cents the beginning of the next novel of the Journey to the Center of the Earth epic series: The New Team!

The story is available right now on Smashwords and will be sometime tomorrow on Amazon. When it is I'll post a link.

Don't forget and if you don't know, on Smashwords you can read the first twenty percent of all my stories for free.

I'm excited about it because I get to go deeper into the characters as people and into the earth at the same time, pardon the puns here. I've shown more of the destruction that occured during the Big One so that the impact of what happened to our world and what could happen to our world would help us understand the characters better, as well as their personal drives to success.

I've got an honest to God  hippy in the new adventure, as well as a kind of cowgirl and of course the heroes of the last expedition, still struggling to find their way..on many more levels than they realize.

I've got more monsters and more puzzles, but more than anything else I think I've got a new rip roaring adventure to excite you!

Best to all.

John

Journey to the Center of the Earth continues

I'm inspired by rumors of an entrance to an  underground city beneath Mount Shasta which has been spoken of for decades now.

Since the second team to attempt to reach the center of the earth needed a new theme and background, I decided to take them a different route than Tibet and India. Hence....Mount Shasta.

Look for some very different story angles this time around as I further explore the ramifications of trying to force out way of life on the entire planet, irregardless of the consequences to all life, whether walking, swimming, or flying above, below or within its body.

Here's some Wikipedia images of Mount Shasta.

The above photo is very mysterious, isn't it? Could it be that some kind of energy or light is leaking through the ancient volcano to the outside world?

Could it be some kind of warning from those who dwell below the surface of the Earth?

And if it is a warning, is it friendly or....?

Fun detective

And of course the great Mouse Detective...a reincarnated Sherlock Holmes? Or Goofy in disguise? Your call!

RocketMan is now available on Amazon too!

RocketMan is now officially available on both Amazon and Smashwords for 99cents.

Hours and hours of reading pleasure.

If you've ever seen the old time Republic Serials that ran in the movie houses and television during the forties, fifties and sixties, you're in for a huge treat.

If you just love action-packed thrillers with real heroes and villains you'll love to hiss and boo at, then you've found the right story.

Hitler is set on taking over the world. He is close to achieving it with a cache of secret super weapons that the world is unaware of.

Only one man can stop the Dictator's mad quest for world domination and annihilation of all those who oppose him....ROCKETMAN!

Next part of The Death of Conan has been posted. Enjoy!

The next part of The Death of Conan is posted and you can find it here.

RocketMan is on sale now for 99cents at Amazon late tomorrow and Smashwords right now. Buy one now. It's a high adventure science fiction thriller of what might have happened if the Nazis had won the war and not the Allies.

Have a great weekend!

John

Rocketman poster added

Next part of The Death of Conan has been posted.

I have just posted the next piece of my Baker Street Adventures The Death of Conan and you can find it here!

My third Baker Street Adventure story has been updated, revised and expanded and is now available on both Smashwords and Amazon for the bargain price of 99cents!

Rocketman is coming! Look for it soon on Amazon and Smashwords!

http://youtu.be/Gc-3eqCBEOo

The first Journey to the Center of the Earth novel is coming soon!

Rocketman Story Promo is posted tonight!

My new adventure series takes place during World War Two and goes back and forth between what our world is like now and what might have happened had the Nazis won the war. It's a fun filled adventure with heart and soul and lots of action.

I'll post when it's finally published on this blog and my personal site as well. I'm still fine tuning it. It's about the length of a novellete for the first story.

Have a great day tomorrow.

John

New video posted, and more Baker Street Adventures

Here is a video promo for my Journey to the Center of the Earth series.

Get the novel at Amazon. It's available in a beautiful paperback edition and Kindle as well.

First podcast coming this Friday

When I was a kid I found an old, old antiques shop that had several boxes of old Golden Age Story Magazines. While this is not one I personally purchased; it is similar.

Those old wonderful tales stimulated my imagination as a youth and though I only purchased at the ridiculous price of a dollar or two these collectibles, I learned so much and thrilled so much that they could have been worth hundreds or more!

Friday, in honor of that Golden Age of Detective stories, I am adding a podcast about how I came about to write my Baker Street Adventures series of stories. My podcast is an over simplification as it was actually a lifetime of reading, movies and TV that brought me to these stories, not to mention an extremely active imagination with me as the hero at times that brought all the elements together.

But now just click on the podcast to get a spoken version of how it all came together. The story I am referring to in the podcast is The Baker Street Adventures 1: The Death of Conan, which I have just updated and expanded and is now available for 99cents on both Smashwords and Amazon.

Look for the podcast this coming Friday!

Also, if you can tell me which of my Baker Street Adventure Stories has Stonehenge in it, I'll send you a digital version of my next new story in the series. The first five who guess it right will receive the prize. Send your guesses to: realmsword@cox.net.

Have a great day.

John

First part of "The Death of Conan" is posted tonight.

The above story is now posted in Free Stories at this link. I will be posting a new part each week on the Friday of that week.

Enjoy!

Meanwhile, I am searching for the right web host to put up my pro site on. I tried Wix, but it's too slow, so I've canceled that. If you have any ideas, please let me know and I'll send you a free story!

Once I have the right webhost I'm going to post downloadable versions of the stories I post, so you can upload them to your e-readers. Let me know what format you guys prefer and I'll try to post that one as well.

Have a great weekend!

John

Revised version of Seeker Promo and other news.

A revised version of my video promo for Seeker. As you can see I keep on looking for ways to upgrade my work, make it easier to read, easier to understand. So we'll call this Seeker V1.1 video promo. How's that for a laugh?

Getting ready to shoot down to California in about thirty minutes. 

Hope to put together a view Vlogs for this blog and my children's one as well while I'm down there. Not sure what the look will be yet, but you'll get to see a lot of my face for sure.LOL.

Have a great week and I'll be back for sure next Friday with some surprises I suspect.

John

Last chapter of Cartoon: Shades of Gray, the Portal's Opening is now posted!

Well,

The last chapter is up and we bid farewell to Cartoon and Johnnie, knowing that their adventures only just started. If you like this one, there's a lot more up on Amazon and Smashwords. As a matter of fact I'm posting my Sixth Cartoon story: The Clone Commando this weekend. Maybe tonight if I can get everything done in time.

Hope you got a chance to see my first story promo for "The Seeker." I created it myself. I'm hard at work now on the one for my Journey to the Earth series.

I'm going to California this next week, so I probably won't be doing any more work on videos during that time, but I might post a Vlog. I'm still checking to see if I can get that format decent enough for viewing.

Once I figure out the Vlog format, I'll be posting videos of me every week in addition to my stories to let everyone know what's going on.

Also, if you have any questions to ask, or suggestions to make to me, I'll address those during the Vlog. So while I'm hammering away at making this a more fun experience for you, you can  type or text away to me with what you'd like to ask or suggest.

Have a great weekend and if I don't get back  here sooner, next Friday's when I return and I'll be posting a new story that night.

Best to everyone.

John

Video for my Seeker story series is now posted online.

Great new story I've written for those seeking the truth in their lives and who seek happiness in all its venues! Best. John

I'll be posting video promos for all my work over time as time allows. Have fun with them. And read the stories!

Available on Smashwords and Amazon now for just 99 cents.

Best.

John

Summer is here! Yay! And Chapter Four of Cartoon is now posted!

Hey everyone!

Just posted Chapter Four of Cartoon today.

I'm looking forward to having more fun things to add as the summer progresses.

Meanwhile, enjoy the next chapter of Cartoon!

And don't forget to check out Smashwords and Amazon for more fun and adventures by me.

 He's just met the most beautiful woman in his life and she's sent him on a mission to find out who he is? What kind of romance is that? Seeker, a new series of stories that deal with the spiritual, the occult and the paranormal.

Seeker, "The Lady of the Mist," is now available on both Amazon and Smashwords for 99cents. Don't miss this extraordinary insight into the life of a man destined to become more than anyone could ever imagine.

 Check out my article on education and commerce in The Pen's Delight and then tell me what you think.

Also working on a new collection which is named Golden Realm Stories. It will include a novel and numerous stories for your reading pleasure at a great price.

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend and thanks to all those great souls who have given of themselves what some of us may fear to give...our lives and limbs. I am grateful for their sacrifices to keep us safe and to help our country.

John

New Chapter in Cartoon: Shades of Gray: The Portals Are Opening posted!

Hi Everyone,

I'm hard at work on a new episode of the Baker Street Adventures. This story focuses on the life of Professor Moriarity before he became famous or infamous, depending in which alternate reality you're talking about, and I think you'll like the little twist I'm putting on him in this story, which should explain a lot of things about his character while opening the door for a lot of new questions as well.

Meanwhile, to hold you steady in your thirst for stories, I've posted Chapter Two of Cartoon, " Shades of Gray: The Portals Are Opening." You can read it on this page, Cartoon, " Shades of Gray: The Portals Are Opening

Enjoy and have a great Memorial Day weekend.

John

Journey to the Center of the Earth has now reached number three in the series and to celebrate this I am giving away Journey to the Center of the Earth 1 for free as of tonight.

Enjoy.

John

After you read it, please review it. Thanks!

Get it HERE!

The world is a remarkable place

May 16, 2014

The world is such a remarkable place.

And America is dab in the center of it. Least from our point of view.

Imagine if you will a piece of the world that is so small that that dab wouldn't even leave a stain on your smallest pocket change. Imagine if it didn't even show up if you held it under a microscope.

What if that dab were populated by tiny living creatures?

To us they might seem like microbes, not knowing any better. But what if somewhere down there, far down below where our vision fails and only electronics of awesome magnitude can work...what if there were a race of beings that struggled to survive, struggled to fight against the odds, whose every day was a challenge to go on, to survive to the next and then battle again?

What if that world were called Elecktron?

Such is the name of a world I've populated with valiant warriors who must face death defying odds just to stay alive each day. A world populated by honorable beings who are constantly under attack by creatures so fierce and cruel that their only hope of redemption was a savior. Some one so brave and powerful that he could turn the tide of battle. And what if that powerful being was a hopelessly confused teenager who was running away from a father and mother in a different kind of war, one where both would lose and he would lose even more.

Escape to Elecktron, Princess of the Atomic World. A new story series I've created.

Available at Smashwords in digital format for only 99cents.

Chapter One of my original new series, Cartoon is posted. Read it here.....Shades of Gray, the Portal is Opening.

Which do we value most, ourselves or all life? Cartoon is about that.

Cartoon is a very unique character. I first wrote the idea down back in the Eighties for a motion picture screenplay. I pitched it to a producer at Paramount, and interestingly enough some few years later, after my screenplay had been rejected, a movie came out that was awfully similar to Cartoon. I later found out that the man who directed it had a reputation for stealing other people's ideas. This was not the first time it had happened to me. But such is life in the creative world.

We all build ideas from the giants before us. I usually take mine from the classics, but some do not. Their choice. My choice.

Cartoon, in my mind, is a metaphor for what is best in all of us. A personality who places honor, love and dignity above all else. She is willing to trade off even her own life to protect her people and to do what is right.

Johnnie, on the other hand, is a teenager bent somewhat by the push and pull of our modern life, where the world wants us all to hurry up and grow up and be part of the factory system that has been created by the military industrial complex led by the huge corporations of today and fronted by our own Congress unfortunately.

Do we blame this mess on them or our own lack of follow through in educating ourselves and doing the right thing?

Cartoon chooses to take the harder path...the one that guarantees she will have a soul at the end of the day, whether she wins or loses,  but Johnnie, the hero of our ongoing series is not yet that mature. He is fighting his hormones as most teenagers do, and unfortunately, many adults as well, and thus not thinking straight.

His path is constantly obstructed by his own emotions and hormonal discharges, much as we see in modern day Congress where the needs of the people are often set aside for the needs of the political pundit or party.

Will Johnnie make his masteries in life and become a true child of the universe who recognizes the dignity in all others and cares enough that he is even willing to give up his own goals for the greater good?

Only time will tell.

Happy Reading to all.

John