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

Cartoon has arrived. And is she beautiful!

After  you've read the first story in my Cartoon series, google on over to Smashwords where you can purchase the other three at 99cents each.

The free 1st story can be found by clicking here!

Please like me on Twitter and Facebook and thank me by commenting on my story page.  Love to hear from you!

Best.

John

Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Invisible Lands is published.

New part of my Journey to the Center of the Earth series has been published. "The Invisible Lands."

Get "Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Invisible Lands" today for 99cents at Smashwords. Available in all popular e-book formats.

Experience how the Eiffel Tower fell during the Big One. See how frightening the journey towards the center has become.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Invisible Lands" at Smashwords now.

New Pricing

Hi Everyone,

I was rolling up my sleeves late last night to figure out some way to get my stories out there to more readers. After all I don't write these great stories just to kill time.They need someone to read them to bring them to fruition.

So I lit up all my magical candles, watching all the colors of the rainbow sparking to life, then I raised my magical fingers and pressed them continuously to my magical keyboard.

My computer screen lit up and a huge comical face lit it up and said, "Gee Whiz, Mister P. You can do better than that!"

So I did!

I have reduced the prices on all my stories to 99 cents each with the first of each series being free. This offer is available only on Smashwords.

Also, don't forget to check out Golden Realm Children's Stories. I've just completed a new story on Giddy and Gnobs, "The Creaky, Cranky Joints." It's loaded with super colorful illustrations. I've also posted a complete story called "Mister Po and the Vanishing Shadow," in the recent stories section.

And if you'd like to see a bit more about my stories you can also take a look at my pro site www.goldenrealmstories.com.

Take advantage of this great offer while it lasts.

Best.

John

Added new author to the free novel section.

Go to Free Novels.

The sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth is named: The Invisible Lands.

Another concept piece for my Journey to the Center of the Earth series.

I am making good progress on the sequel to the first story. This one follows the Special Forces as they make progress towards their goal, finding the culprit behind the destruction of most major cities on the planet.

More time will be spent with the characters to see what's going on in their heads, as well as to establish more comraderie before the crap really hits the fan!

Remember, this is all parallel to what Jules Verne wrote, so somethings will intersect with his vision of the journey and the center of our world, but only in places, for the larger portion of the story now is on the bravery and stamina of so few against such tremendous odds as they race to save their homelands and their loved ones.

Concept art for cover of Journey to the Center of the Earth

Only 99cents on Smashwords: "Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Advent."

A concept illustration I rendered in 3D for my latest story "Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Advent."

I'm working on the next part of this miniseries now. Hope to have it finished by the end of next week.

And don't forget to read the entire story that began the Baker Street Adventures here. It's free and fun.
Did I mention it's....free at Smashwords in many digital formats.

Or you can read it here on my site.

Stay tuned.

Best.

John

Just published on Smashwords. Journey to the Center of the Earth. Hours of great reading. And only 99cents!

They thought this day would be just like any other day. They were wrong. The Eiffel Tower was the first to fall, then the Tower of Big Ben. Boulder Dam broke, then the Hoover Dam. New Orleans was flooded. Tidal waves rolled over Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York. It seemed like the end of the world and it almost was!

?His sister and he were about to be crushed by a huge piece of the temple, so Chandra did the only thing he could thing of, he grabbed her and flung them both off the cliff into the freezing cold Ganges. He felt the cold and then nothing!"

What caused everything to go to hell and back was a puzzle only a special team of  investigators, who had experienced the horrors first hand, could discover the truth. And they were heading for the Center of the Earth!

Posting free story: The Death of Conan!

Hi everyone,

Today I'm starting something new.

I will be adding a free story to my site once a month. It is one that would normally be sold at Smashwords, but for one week only will be free on my site.

This week I am presenting how it all started for my Baker Street Adventure series: The Death of Conan. Click here to read it!