tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56807467708080321422024-03-13T06:17:04.001-07:00John B. Rosenman, SF/F/Horror WriterJohn B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-83710223740136849132023-12-24T09:24:00.000-08:002024-03-04T08:18:21.420-08:00My Latest Novel, A Breath of Fresh Air is now on Pre-order!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: inherit;">Here's what my publisher Crossroad Press has to say about it. "This novel is fast-paced with strong emotion... you need this in your life. It's up for pre-order in eBook, shortly in print and due soon in unabridged audio. You won't want to miss this one..."</b></div><div><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Available on Amazon at:</b> <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQVQ98C9?fbclid=IwAR3JbPaRqFsMMYZs49rKL0D5u_ft1i0znq1hPjnkaVsecrBFjkB1pkYKxvw" original_target="https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0cqvq98c9?fbclid=iwar3tnmsogtevvzcgz-p2kwcyg7ss1lq53i247bfzwiensazqeiadaif4waw" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank" waprocessedanchor="true" waprocessedid="gbxweg"><b>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQVQ98C9</b></a><div mcafee_wa_ann="{"category":["os"],"flags":3,"key":"amazon.com","originalUrl":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0cqvq98c9?fbclid=iwar0uvbomailddl2eudofmum-7lpu2m2lh0myegtnwnf9npxq8usiv2gzy3u","scanner":"cache","timeCached":1703396229742,"trust":85,"ttl":2592000,"url":"amazon.com/dp/b0cqvq98c9","originalScanner":"hti-url","dossierUrl":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0cqvq98c9?fbclid=iwar3tnmsogtevvzcgz-p2kwcyg7ss1lq53i247bfzwiensazqeiadaif4waw"}" style="color: #050505; cursor: default; display: inline-block; float: none; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: 1;" waprocessedid="gbxweg"></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggkaOX-3mDoXfC_imHtojLcHSRR5gI1VK3WmOrMjloSRyEii2y1h8YpS6NKxFXRXctO-hFy2_qVu8lhB9BoQcA5edE8DSObZVGeNOMzaH3KEoEzCggi8hyazKGIISx0VLjAZETwxeAptfY7kUnT8B16bV5uDKb1PfxAIY3RSBz1nNCSncTsVfViyYrCRxT/s7708/A%20Breath%20of%20Fresh%20Air%20KDP%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5550" data-original-width="7708" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggkaOX-3mDoXfC_imHtojLcHSRR5gI1VK3WmOrMjloSRyEii2y1h8YpS6NKxFXRXctO-hFy2_qVu8lhB9BoQcA5edE8DSObZVGeNOMzaH3KEoEzCggi8hyazKGIISx0VLjAZETwxeAptfY7kUnT8B16bV5uDKb1PfxAIY3RSBz1nNCSncTsVfViyYrCRxT/w428-h308/A%20Breath%20of%20Fresh%20Air%20KDP%20cover.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div><h2 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></h2><h2 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">BLURB:</b></h2><div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">Michael Windsor’s luck has abandoned him. His wife, Muriel, left him, taking his beloved seven-year-old son Andy with her, and is sleeping with a rich lawyer.</span></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">As if that isn’t enough, he experiences three near-death episodes in his sleep, fighting for breath and nearly suffocating. It's called obstructive sleep apnea, and his neurologist advises him to use a device to help regulate his breathing at night. It sounds even more miserable, but Michael agrees.</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">What follows is a whirlwind of surreal changes as his body strengthens, his life improves, and he feels somehow more alive. He knows it’s the machine, but he also knows that’s crazy. Then, to his horror, he is enmeshed in a string of murder and violence that has both the police and a very powerful, very evil entity hot on his trail. He also finds a new romance and the hope of a better life. If only he can survive and protect himself, his son, and the woman he’s grown to love.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">Here's my latest, </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/scifi?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXKfRXCjnwlbk9sdeGBYtFDLBKnBD7qLngSAO6zPqVSyZ3QPR-bJWwdSX_jw1DUglrkxE8QSnBY3_g5EGhMA5bIlNqxnHhfSKH3X1nngHDCFzy7plGV5b0m6CHUdp3wB_Zp30bmWMVp3ynCs0fP-6GOwB7BuUwRh_JHz3vu0qnt0VhzSTQtAWysuWRH2IhLAFM&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div></div></div>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-33281517369084414512023-11-03T14:15:00.036-07:002023-11-11T11:15:31.130-08:00I'm Having a Podcast<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span face="Helvetica, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"">Hi, I've been battling Covid, but I'm having a podcast on November 8 at 8 pm. Please tune in using the link below and feel free to call.</span></span></h2><h1 style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <br /></span><a href="https://www.blogtalkradio.com/voiceofindie1/2023/11/09/voice-of-indie-episode-171" rel="noopener" style="word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://www.blogtalkradio.com/voiceofindie1/2023/11/09/voice-of-indie-episode-171</a></h1><div class="io-ox-signature" style="font-family: Helvetica, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";"><div style="font-size: 13px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 13px;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The episode is set for <strong>Wednesday November 8th at 8 pm ET</strong>. The show is live. We go for 60 minutes, though it's scheduled for 90 minutes - just in case. The number to call is: <strong>516-453-9902</strong>.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><h1 style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwTR4NQUiGv8NsiR3_OSB-qN1iXhNVRtnyPPNt4y6Zv9f7opSwK9gP4QwDQju90z9UxIRf5RkTnPXND4gAfAcpqOuKUybWBHDwQ3xkiI0eWthnuejulDbuHAIJRrXZWpwjjjs2zgkg76lwu-Bo1aZDbsMaz5qSzev4pTxegrnrDJXiw6UW3RRjSncWolm/s1895/VOI%20171%20Placard%20-%20Rosenman.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1895" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwTR4NQUiGv8NsiR3_OSB-qN1iXhNVRtnyPPNt4y6Zv9f7opSwK9gP4QwDQju90z9UxIRf5RkTnPXND4gAfAcpqOuKUybWBHDwQ3xkiI0eWthnuejulDbuHAIJRrXZWpwjjjs2zgkg76lwu-Bo1aZDbsMaz5qSzev4pTxegrnrDJXiw6UW3RRjSncWolm/w400-h225/VOI%20171%20Placard%20-%20Rosenman.png" width="400" /></a></h1><br /><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> VOICE OF INDIE PODCAST LINKS - Click and listen to my interview.</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="background-color: color: #222222; 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Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-82754724423830602552023-03-16T17:48:00.006-07:002023-03-22T09:27:58.957-07:00A FREE NEW STORY, "A Nice Donation"<h2 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Do you like going to thrift stores?</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Well, I always have. "A Nice Donation" is a short story I wrote on the subject. It just appeared in <i>Four Star Stories</i>. It takes only a few minutes to read and illustrates why I like visiting thrift stores and shops so much. You never know what you're going to find!</span></h2><h1 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the link: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://4starstories.com/html/bonus_story7.html?fbclid=IwAR2JbmfZSYeOcZ_ZGj_SZoc9dSUFONAz2hQqu6LH65tz0CrjCagNPXUWyoE" rel="nofollow" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://4starstories.com/html/bonus_story7.html</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> ~</span></h1><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-space: pre-wrap; background-color: color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAKHcVOtL791hNMCjAFr7uCYfFGdWjvJWjJ6P6aao973xEodxpWHFkP-U0P1ymrR_0gZD_sQN1PR22Kih9ucQ6GLSXk99F9nHfUf80rbiMt7xpkuFevUdaaRihOtWEGMadg9JJgY_1jsDvNOC0V4o1cPAuqwkWKO4KuKbQL09jz-l-hDX6RG3lUDFcmg/s120/Thrift7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="120" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAKHcVOtL791hNMCjAFr7uCYfFGdWjvJWjJ6P6aao973xEodxpWHFkP-U0P1ymrR_0gZD_sQN1PR22Kih9ucQ6GLSXk99F9nHfUf80rbiMt7xpkuFevUdaaRihOtWEGMadg9JJgY_1jsDvNOC0V4o1cPAuqwkWKO4KuKbQL09jz-l-hDX6RG3lUDFcmg/w303-h303/Thrift7.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br /><h1 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">The beginning of . . , </h1><h2 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"></h2><h1 style="text-align: center;">A Nice Donation</h1><p style="text-align: left;"> <b> The sign on Thrift World's front door read <i>Donations Accepted Around Back</i>, so that was where Marcelline went. She backed her pickup toward the <i>Donation Center </i>sign in the rear, then hopped out and opened the tailgate.<br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span> "Hallo!" she greeted the slender woman who appeared in the doorway. "I have a donation for you, but it's rather heavy."</span><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b> "I'll get some help," the woman said, turning back inside.<br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span> Soon two brawny men came out and carried her offering inside. It looked like a rosewood cabinet, four feet long by a foot and a half wide, and the men struggled with it.</span><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><b><span> "Lady," the red-haired one puffed, "this thing is heavy."</span><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span> "I know," Marcelline said. She swished her long granny dress and fingered the beads on her necklace.</span><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span> The other man, who was black and bespectacled, grunted. "Darn thing weighs a ton," he said. "What do you have in here, a pile of rocks?"</span><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span><b><span> "Not even warm," she laughed.</span><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><b>* * * * * *</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h1><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>
John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-81634397340596441862023-01-06T08:54:00.003-08:002023-01-07T17:58:15.290-08:00 TWO BOOK SIGNINGS ON JANUARY 14.<p><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I'm happy to announce that I will have two book signings on January 14 at the Book Exchange stores in Norfolk and Virginia Beach. The first two novels in my Dreamfarer series will be featured as well as other books. 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Thanks to the technological advances of dream machines, humanity is able to escape a dull existence through adventurous and romantic fantasies that are far more exciting and fulfilling than ordinary life.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But not all dreamers are so blessed. What happens to a “Dreamfarer” when he wakes after <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>seven years to find that he has become a Waker, one of the three percent of humanity who are immune to further dream stimulation and who must face an empty future? This is the case with Sam Adams, who desperately seeks salvation and meaning in his life after he wakes up.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Many disappointed Wakers become Wreckers who seek to overthrow the Government. Others lose themselves in drugs and sex. Sam wrestles with both possibilities. In the end he embarks on a quest that may affect not only his future but others' as well.</span></div></div></span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><br /></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vZghuxgJF6ariumhHYeVGU6b8p325ScrNLyfxpFcU7v_bU2Q87EPKG-30hmftUTC0KsD9TY0kPKhsbTn5HfaK3RGT8H9pzE140r44Nb3zMsb8BoIr3zd5XBhzaYhnChsC1pPgJx7m2IZBD_qDl6oF-btJuP47emHpDoMWUCdhQGBunSTsOE5oC8n-A/s401/Dreamfarer%20Series.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="401" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vZghuxgJF6ariumhHYeVGU6b8p325ScrNLyfxpFcU7v_bU2Q87EPKG-30hmftUTC0KsD9TY0kPKhsbTn5HfaK3RGT8H9pzE140r44Nb3zMsb8BoIr3zd5XBhzaYhnChsC1pPgJx7m2IZBD_qDl6oF-btJuP47emHpDoMWUCdhQGBunSTsOE5oC8n-A/w400-h279/Dreamfarer%20Series.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLE_XQr-nBLbDCdmLOQeBTzCWA8WcN5woP4MSJEY02zFjcWZE3W2SXcZxupM5TEeBFmpQZ4EqtAoZmcBiScZhFbY89jkqRRDj8hS2XXg72mrgXvAqLUCs0SqQgR-V9rSgyTiH_BTWzsPzJX3mX0NgYCKjMCkfn_iBhWtdX2UyOMVMQThpuBVxDbcqcGQ/s720/Book%20Signing2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLE_XQr-nBLbDCdmLOQeBTzCWA8WcN5woP4MSJEY02zFjcWZE3W2SXcZxupM5TEeBFmpQZ4EqtAoZmcBiScZhFbY89jkqRRDj8hS2XXg72mrgXvAqLUCs0SqQgR-V9rSgyTiH_BTWzsPzJX3mX0NgYCKjMCkfn_iBhWtdX2UyOMVMQThpuBVxDbcqcGQ/w400-h300/Book%20Signing2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXTsD6QKjKzBtKjG0zj1G9ixV63c_TXvp-xhGfQgWXJTNn8vRloBDZMpuY4MtU0Z2UPEshiickImeF_osbH-MYQB0c9wRLkJf3azD2glaOObg8uXTAtw77Vitx_F-HjK6vB1HmIG1wJRJaWFtSvquLC5Vh9-PT3De65l8MqHRqZwVMnHH5V6Iu3vqxA/s960/Book%20Signing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXTsD6QKjKzBtKjG0zj1G9ixV63c_TXvp-xhGfQgWXJTNn8vRloBDZMpuY4MtU0Z2UPEshiickImeF_osbH-MYQB0c9wRLkJf3azD2glaOObg8uXTAtw77Vitx_F-HjK6vB1HmIG1wJRJaWFtSvquLC5Vh9-PT3De65l8MqHRqZwVMnHH5V6Iu3vqxA/w400-h300/Book%20Signing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></h2><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dec. 3rd 2022 Book Signing with Drema Writes and Hubby at the 21st Annual Fair Trade Festival at Elation Brewing in Norfolk, VA. </h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-59394293448033629152022-11-26T14:51:00.010-08:002022-11-26T16:32:37.864-08:00GO EAST, YOUNG MAN, Book 2 in the Dreamfarer series, available by Pre-order<p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen x1xlr1w8 xi81zsa" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-transform: uppercase; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">GO EAST, YOUNG MAN - BOOK 2 OF THE <i>DREAMFARER</i> SERIES AVAILABLE BY PRE-ORDER on AMAZON</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><b style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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Sam Adams travels with his friends from San Francisco all the way to Denver, having dangerous encounters on the way. Sam, who played a vital role in shutting down the San Francisco Dream Services Center and waking up half a million dreamers, hopes to meet a mysterious contact in Denver who will recruit him for his next mission.</span></p><div class="x1e56ztr" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">The goal of the nationwide Resistance is to cripple the Dream factories completely and wake up all Americans, saving them from their psychic dependence on machine-induced dreams, which are far more exciting and fulfilling than the often dull existence of ordinary life.</span></div><div class="x1e56ztr" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">They journey across an America that has regressed to being a lawless frontier. Wherever they stop, thieves and murderers attack them. Will they ever survive to reach their destination? Can Sam even trust his friends? 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>Now, Sam thought, he must continue on to help those in
Denver to disrupt dream services in that city or anywhere else, must save other
sleepers from the deadly addiction of dreams which denied life itself. He had
committed himself to a worldwide revolution, a movement that those in power
would do anything to crush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>Something moved in the distance. He rubbed his eyes. The
light was still dim and he had probably imagined it. No, there it was again,
far back down the road he had come. It looked like…a man. And he was walking
directly toward him.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>Sam staggered up, instantly alert. He had no gun or other
weapon, and was in no condition to defend himself. Glancing about, he saw only
thin stands of trees on both sides of the road. They offered few places to hide.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>He squinted, trying to see better, to make out if the man
was big or small. Whoever he was, he was probably harmless. Yes, the odds
favored it. But the only times he had ever been a good gambler were in the
Center’s dreams, when he had been a Western gunslinger or a secret agent. With
his luck, the person had deliberately stalked him all the way from the Center
to kill him for what he had done. It could be vengeance, plain and simple.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>But vengeance made no sense and was completely
implausible. How could anyone have tracked him all this way in the dark? And
with all the panic and confusion, how could they have picked up his trail in
the first place? Yet he had no doubt it was so and cursed himself for not
moving into the trees immediately. He started to do so but at that moment the
ripening sunlight touched the figure more clearly, revealing something
familiar.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>No, it couldn’t be. But Sam stood watching as the man
grew closer and closer and finally halted a few steps away. Sam stared in
amazement.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You!</i>” he barely
managed to say.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 10.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kKjgJW8kSuc8aC22xXaIgvWjVEH7eDPNxZ8cf25yNdliHN97RkAWqfa7CWDupeM0UpWrw6rUd_CiaRagCT_GRWnttDvqjpxAAbShsTuzFyYOLdGEoGqRNEGLh-TRZ2MHPELxaI_1dZmbZGjYk7eAZuJCLRS2CgJpQOAaE2nGJjngCEqWt5w1C8u52g/s7158/Go%20East%20Young%20Man%20print%20cover2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5250" data-original-width="7158" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kKjgJW8kSuc8aC22xXaIgvWjVEH7eDPNxZ8cf25yNdliHN97RkAWqfa7CWDupeM0UpWrw6rUd_CiaRagCT_GRWnttDvqjpxAAbShsTuzFyYOLdGEoGqRNEGLh-TRZ2MHPELxaI_1dZmbZGjYk7eAZuJCLRS2CgJpQOAaE2nGJjngCEqWt5w1C8u52g/s320/Go%20East%20Young%20Man%20print%20cover2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><br /><p></p></div></div>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-87073461662288713962022-10-09T14:55:00.000-07:002022-10-09T14:55:47.904-07:00INTERVIEW WITH RAMONA PORTELLI <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhjorKWErsaTjGY4-Mi58zfyxDPTWsMnlvT9Yv07kCHBBYhMD9CMB8ZU7keQJEnbjM_Aw-1wkGOzuNrcO5ZCBGxSR4j7ny6ANQw9qjKk8rRsjnzKfYI6qHAJCNlmi30FLtfvdSmBUXGoHBS2dmRIXNyED7gyiHrHX56eMRa1P5ozrlmiNHwUFvm8pBQ/s2560/IMG_20220908_133907%20%281%29.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhjorKWErsaTjGY4-Mi58zfyxDPTWsMnlvT9Yv07kCHBBYhMD9CMB8ZU7keQJEnbjM_Aw-1wkGOzuNrcO5ZCBGxSR4j7ny6ANQw9qjKk8rRsjnzKfYI6qHAJCNlmi30FLtfvdSmBUXGoHBS2dmRIXNyED7gyiHrHX56eMRa1P5ozrlmiNHwUFvm8pBQ/s400/IMG_20220908_133907%20%281%29.jpg" /></a></div><b>
John B. Rosenman was an English professor at Norfolk State University where he designed and taught a course in how to write Science fiction and Fantasy. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Horror Writers Association and the editor of Horror Magazine and The Rhetorician. He has published 250 stories in places such as Weird Tales, Whitley Strieber’s Aliens, Fangoria, Galaxy, Endless Apocalypse, The Age of Wonders, and the Hot Blood erotic horror series. </b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Altogether, John has published over two dozen books, including SF action-adventure novels such as Beyond Those Distant Stars, Speaker of the Shakk, A Senseless Act of Beauty, Alien Dreams, and the Inspector of the Cross series (Crossroad Press). He also published a four-book box set, The Amazing Worlds of John B. Rosenman (MuseItUp Press). In addition, he has published two mainstream novels, The Best Laugh Last (McPherson & Company) and the Young Adult The Merry-Go-Round Man (Crossroad Press). Recently, he completed two science-fiction novels, Dreamfarer and Go East, Young Man that are the start of a new Dreamfarer series.
Two of John’s early literary influences are Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Two major themes are the endless, mind-stretching wonders of the universe and the limitless possibilities of transformation—sexual, cosmic, and otherwise. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q. Tell me more about your latest book.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. <i>Dreamfarer</i> is a novel of the future when 70 percent of humanity are serviced by dream machines after exercising their “option” at the age of thirty-two. These CIUs (Cerebral Interface Units) provide adventurous and romantic fantasies that are far more exciting and fulfilling than ordinary life in a post-nuclear-war America, now ravaged and divided into seven autonomous districts. The year is 2170, ninety years after World War III, and America, Russia, China, and the Caliphate are struggling for supremacy. Nuclear war on Earth is now banned, but the superpowers have exported their hostilities and suspicions to Mars and other planets, where they compete to control the solar system. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>What happens to a “Dreamfarer” when he wakes after seven years in a dream machine to find that he has become a Waker, one of the three percent of humanity who are immune to further dream stimulation and must face a dull and tedious existence? This is the case with Sam Adams, whose salvation lies in joining a movement to subvert and destroy the very technology that has robbed humanity of their identity and purpose. In the process, he becomes romantically involved with two radically different women, Trina and Diana, and through unexpected acts of heroism, finds he has become a national hero as well as a double agent like Seth Lance, a hero in one of his dream series. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q. What was the most challenging aspect of writing this book? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. Man, this book was difficult! Twenty or twenty-five years ago, a word popped into my head. It was “dreamfarer”, a made-up word. We have seafarers and wayfarers, so why not dreamfarers? And what is a dreamfarer? It’s someone who travels in dreams, perhaps to marvellous realms. In short, this one word was a mighty seed. It generated a whole novel in which people chose to be placed in dream machines that biochemically created the dreams of their choice. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>But it was hard to write the novel. My writers’ group wisely found fault with the style and execution, and I was eventually forced to set it aside for two decades. I picked it up two or three years ago and tried again. My writers’ group had dissolved in the meantime, but now I had an excellent beta reader to assist me. Sometimes, writers tackle a project too early and have to step back and wait until they’ve matured, and the idea has ripened in their mind. This, I think, was the case with me. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q. What is your normal procedure to get your books published? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. Usually, I have certain publishers in mind as I write the book and conduct market research along the way. I used to submit my science fiction and fantasy novels and my young adult novel to the top or elite publishers, those who paid the most and had the best reputation and circulation. Those markets are damned hard to crack, though, and eventually I focused on those I had used before. Thus, once I had published the first novel in my <i>Inspector of the Cross</i> series with Crossroad Press, it seemed to make sense to publish the next five there as well. Since some of my books are stand-alone short stories or novelettes, I submitted to publishers or magazines that seemed to fit, paid the most, and had the widest circulation. If my work was rejected, I worked my way down. Sometimes I balanced the criteria off against each other. For example, would I rather be paid 5 cents a word by a publisher with a circulation of 500 or 2 cents a word by a publisher with a circulation of 10,000? In eight cases, I formatted and published short stories myself through Kindle Direct Publishing. </b></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGv2tbTnD78nsF7w8634WQlLQQ65Qfxa8sFm3V25kHdlW97LDTUWWM_e8T_UOX0gzwlwyoSd7MGV0rDPh-J_H6HE2guAZv2KX4JtMxthVdnUL3OsmIIfS54fOSFprDc_tUlAA4p391SMwX5O7A25Hu3LI7EvFgA23okXTlwhZkZhsNoPUeEiGLaTAvgQ/s4160/IMG_20220605_164652.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGv2tbTnD78nsF7w8634WQlLQQ65Qfxa8sFm3V25kHdlW97LDTUWWM_e8T_UOX0gzwlwyoSd7MGV0rDPh-J_H6HE2guAZv2KX4JtMxthVdnUL3OsmIIfS54fOSFprDc_tUlAA4p391SMwX5O7A25Hu3LI7EvFgA23okXTlwhZkZhsNoPUeEiGLaTAvgQ/w330-h440/IMG_20220605_164652.jpg" width="330" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2><span style="color: red;">The Books, Stories, etc. I Have W</span><span style="color: red;">ritten</span> </h2></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q. Do you view writing as a kind of spiritual practice? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. Yes, I do. You’re trying to write the best you can, trying to achieve perfection, and that’s about as spiritual an endeavour as I can imagine. The goal is divine and impossible to achieve, and the process tests your faith with every word you write and cross out. Sometimes you almost feel that you’re nailing yourself to a cross, especially when you expose yourself to others’ brutal criticism or force yourself to be honest and throw out fifty pages you used to love. But when it’s going well, when the words pour out of you like holy oil, there’s nothing better in life or the whole universe. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q. How many books have you written so far? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. I count nearly thirty on my Amazon Author Page. Five separate short stories are between publishers and another, a novel, is out of print. Over 200 of my short stories have been published in magazines and book collections. Here is a list:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>1. Dreamfarer (Book 1) </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>2. Go East, Young Man </b><b>(Book 2) – Due to be published in 2023 </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>3-5. Starfighter Chronicles (first three novels of my Inspector of the Cross series): Inspector of the Cross, Kingdom of the Jax, Defender of the Flame </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>6. Conqueror of the Stars (Book 4) </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>7. Skyburst (Book 5) </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>8. Crash (Book 6) </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>9. Childhood’s Day </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>10. Dark Wizard </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>11. The Merry-Go-Round Man </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>12. Dax Rigby, War Correspondent </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>13. Speaker of the Shakk </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>14. Beyond Those Distant Stars </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>15. The Lazarus Trick </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>16. Dark Desires </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>17. Only God and Demons </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>18. Music Man </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>19. Daniel, My Son </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>20. Killers </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>21. Here Be Dragons </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>22. A Mingling of Souls </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>23. Alien Dreams </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>24. A Senseless Act of Beauty </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>25. Bagonoun’s Wonderful Songbird </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>26. The Voice of Many Waters </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>27. The Best Laugh Last </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>28. A Breath of Fresh Air (currently submitting for publication) </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>29. Green in our Souls </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q. What’s the best way to market your books? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. Here are three ways: 1. Conduct careful research with the best market guides, both traditional and online. 2. Be sure to read books in your genres that were published by publishers you intend to submit to. 3. Attend writers’ conferences and make pitches to the most appropriate agents and publishers. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q, How hard or easy is it to establish and maintain a career in writing? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. Very hard. Honestly, the odds are against you. If you define “career” in economic terms, then only a very small percentage of fiction writers make enough to support themselves by writing alone. Most fiction writers make below $30,000 a year. My advice: get a decent job and try to remain steadily employed to support your habit until or if you become monetarily successful. And if you don’t or can’t achieve financial success, learn to feel rewarded and fulfilled by creative success instead. Note: nonfiction or in-house writers of grants, reports, business proposals and the like will generally make substantially more. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Q. What is your advice for aspiring writers? </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A. I’ll give them the same advice I often give myself. Write, write, write; revise, revise, revise. And lest I forget, Read, Read, Read. In fact, reading comes first. In my freshman English class in college, my professor told me that if I wanted to write, I needed to read as much as possible. I took him at his word, and I’ve tried to follow his advice.
If you’re a writer who wants to be published, you also need to research the markets and aim for the best and most appropriate ones first, even if they are most likely to reject you. And keep sending your book, poem, or story out until you either realize it won’t sell or until you receive criticism that convinces you to revise it. And when you have revised it, send it out again. And again and again.
Join a writers’ group of like-minded souls, weigh their comments, and revise accordingly. I belonged to a writers’ group for twenty years, and their advice—some good, some terrible—helped me to sell several novels and dozens of stories.
Above all, don’t quit or become too discouraged. Put a story away for a week or month if necessary but resolve to return to it. Sooner or later, it will be worth it. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Visit Author John B. Rosenman book links: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Dreamfarer – Amazon: <a href="https://lnkd.in/dHN5MCT">https://lnkd.in/dHN5MCT</a> and Barnes & Noble: <a href="https://bit.ly/3Eiv49a">https://bit.ly/3Eiv49a</a> </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Inspector of the Cross, Book 1 in the Inspector of the Cross series: <a href="https://amzn.to/3saMkno">https://amzn.to/3saMkno</a>
and Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/3r4MziO </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Kingdom of the Jax (Book 2): <a href="https://amzn.to/3cmmVAE">https://amzn.to/3cmmVAE</a> </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Defender of the Flame (Book 3): <a href="https://amzn.to/3eAWhXz ">https://amzn.to/3eAWhXz </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Conqueror of the Stars (Book 4): <a href="https://amzn.to/3pJNeFG">https://amzn.to/3pJNeFG</a> </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Skyburst (Book 5): <a href="https://amzn.to/2NRv8Eo ">https://amzn.to/2NRv8Eo </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Crash (Book 6): <a href="https://amzn.to/2HgdyqA ">https://amzn.to/2HgdyqA </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Starfighter Chronicles, Books 1-3, Inspector of the Cross series: <a href="https://amzn.to/2IphgP9 ">https://amzn.to/2IphgP9 </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A Senseless Act of Beauty: </b><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3btwBsW ">https://amzn.to/3btwBsW </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Speaker of the Shakk: <a href="https://amzn.to/3aKyClc ">https://amzn.to/3aKyClc </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Beyond Those Distant Stars: <a href="https://amzn.to/2NPR1UG ">https://amzn.to/2NPR1UG </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Merry-Go-Round Man: <a href="https://amzn.to/2MespEG ">https://amzn.to/2MespEG </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Daniel, My Son: <a href="http://amzn.to/1Ix0CAj ">http://amzn.to/1Ix0CAj </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>A Mingling of Souls: <a href="https://amzn.to/3SRVL8v ">https://amzn.to/3SRVL8v </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Here Be Dragons: <a href="http://amzn.to/1H6SPwl ">http://amzn.to/1H6SPwl </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Killers: <a href="http://amzn.to/1SUUbP1 ">http://amzn.to/1SUUbP1 </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Music Man: h<a href="ttp://amzn.to/1TQ9AS4 ">ttp://amzn.to/1TQ9AS4 </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Only God and Demons: <a href="http://amzn.to/1IK8PW8 ">http://amzn.to/1IK8PW8 </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Childhood’s Day: <a href="http://amzn.to/1RjrAQJ ">http://amzn.to/1RjrAQJ </a> Gypsy Shadow Publishing:
<a href="http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JohnRos.html#Childhood ">http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JohnRos.html#Childhood </a> Smashwords: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/11323 ">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/11323 </a> </b><b>Barnes & Noble: <a href="http://bit.ly/1MWGk8W ">http://bit.ly/1MWGk8W </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Lazarus Trick: <a href="https://amzn.to/3fEbbz4 ">https://amzn.to/3fEbbz4 </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>* </b><b>* </b><b>*</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Visit his website at <a href="http://www.johnrosenman.com">http://www.johnrosenman.com</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Blog: <a href="http://johnrosenman.blogspot.com">http://johnrosenman.blogspot.com</a> </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnRosenman">https://twitter.com/JohnRosenman</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Facebook Author Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/john.rosenman">https://www.facebook.com/john.rosenman</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Facebook Home Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/john.rosenman/ ">https://www.facebook.com/john.rosenman/ </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Amazon Author Page:<a href=" http://www.amazon.com/John-B.-Rosenman/e/B001KMN69E"> http://www.amazon.com/John-B.-Rosenman/e/B001KMN69E</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Pinterest: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/johnrosenman">http://www.pinterest.com/johnrosenman</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/938855.John_B_Rosenman ">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/938855.John_B_Rosenman </a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-b-rosenman-50287218">https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-b-rosenman-50287218</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Instagram: <a href="John Rosenman (@johnrosenman)">John Rosenman (@johnrosenman)</a> • Instagram photos and videos
</b></div>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-5341240023780672792021-12-20T12:51:00.001-08:002021-12-20T12:57:40.389-08:00A Holiday Gift-Giving List from Dark Owl Publishing<div style="font-family: inherit;">
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John B. Rosenman:
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Gustavo Bondoni:
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Vonnie Winslow Crist:
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He's a close friend and a fellow writer. Steve says he's done many things thus far in his life. In fact, "I've reinvented myself more than once, after divorces, financial losses and other life-altering events. But always, I have been a writer." Among Steve's many, many accomplishments is that he's built high-end resin monster models, accumulated a collection of over 20,000 comics and monster magazines, and been a touring drummer in professional punk and new wave bands. He calls himself "a hopeless romantic." And I'm not one bit surprised!</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><br style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;" /></div><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">An Interview with Steven Beai</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wc2OcdsowNY/YQRSXALiNsI/AAAAAAAALVQ/v6EnG_nPIIANVyroIFsMDlJZZ3NNOw-1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s284/Interview-A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="177" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wc2OcdsowNY/YQRSXALiNsI/AAAAAAAALVQ/v6EnG_nPIIANVyroIFsMDlJZZ3NNOw-1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Interview-A.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John:</span> Steve, thank you so much for being my guest. It's an honor to have you. My first question is the deep and profound one we've all been wondering about: Just how the hell do you pronounce your name? </span></div></span></div></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;" />Steven:</span> “STEE-VEN” (laughs) Oh, my LAST name! As you can imagine, John, I get asked that endlessly. I used to say “It’s pronounced “FRON-KEN-STEEN”. It’s actually pronounced BAY-EYE. The peculiar mix of three vowels and a single consonant to form this last name, I have been told, was a hastily-concocted name-change in order for my great-grandparents to escape Nazi Germany. The original name was Beja. Since they had no grasp of English phonetics, they just dropped a letter, added another and got the hell out of their once-beloved homeland.<br style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;" /><br /></span></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John:</span> Wow. Could you tell us a little about your background and what is distinctive and different about your writing?<br style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;" /><br /></span></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Steven:</span> I’m an only child, born in the early sixties. My childhood was idyllic; I have no complaints thanks to my parents, Frank and Paulette. They provided me a typical suburban middle-class life and were generally supportive of my lofty creative goals early on.<br style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;" /><br /></span></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I grew up with G.I. Joes, Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and Universal monster movies. I can’t recall ever being lonely. I was content to create my own worlds with those G.I. Joe figures when I wasn’t engaged in solitary exploration of my environment, studying Midwest creeks, catching crawdads, taunting wasp nests, etc. Mostly, I was a reader. I read every Hardy Boys book I could find, along with Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND, Conan-Doyle’s SHERLOCK HOLMES – similar classics like DRACULA and THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, THE JUNGLE BOOK and THE TIME MACHINE to name a few.</span></h4><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYLYQ_9Py0k/YQRlmuqcELI/AAAAAAAALVY/CqHkVo-N5n4-ZkY6suQNJfhZaWVGb-urACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/008.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MYLYQ_9Py0k/YQRlmuqcELI/AAAAAAAALVY/CqHkVo-N5n4-ZkY6suQNJfhZaWVGb-urACLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/008.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;" />I was around thirteen years old when I discovered writers whose influence would stick with me to this day. Ray Bradbury was the first. DANDELION WINE mirrored much of my own childhood growing up in small Midwestern towns. I was fourteen when I read DEATHBIRD STORIES by Harlan Ellison and devoured every other piece of writing by the man I could find. I was fortunate enough to form a casual friendship with Ellison years later when my phone rang out of the blue – he was calling to compliment me on a short story I had written for Talebones digest, “Slipstream Season”. “You better have gotten paid for that work!” I remember him saying gruffly! How he got my number, I have no idea. From then on, we spoke and corresponded until shortly before he passed away in 2018.</span></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Beyond Bradbury and Ellison, the only other writer I count among proper “influences” is the incredible Donald Barthelme. Look him up. Read any one of his vast catalogue of short-stories and you’ll be hooked. </span></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As for my own writing, what makes it “distinctive” or “different” is probably the fact that I don’t “repeat”; that is to say, a reader never knows what they’re going to get from one story or novel or non-fiction piece to the next. I’m sure this has hobbled me as far as even a semi-lucrative career goes, but I write what I want to read, understanding that I, like everyone else, simply want to be entertained by a piece of fiction. Throughout the years, fellow writers have pointed to certain stories with surprise that I was the author. The best example I can give is “Falling”, appearing in the anthology DREAMING OF ANGELS. It’s a somber and quite gentle ghost story which brought many readers to tears at the conclusion. Prior to this story, much of my work was either profane, graphically violent, or both.<br style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;" /><br /></span></h4><h4 style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope that answers your two-part question, even though I left out my 15 years as a Federal Law Enforcement Officer. I prefer to write in a fictitious sense about strange and terrible things, about the almost incomprehensible technicolor violence one human can visit upon a fellow human, rather than relive experiences I had where no imagination was required.</span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></h4><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xKSSNW6puWI/YQWMaIALRnI/AAAAAAAALVo/Hy-k4pmMWQMccMwE8Fmc3HGsVh57XHdkACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xKSSNW6puWI/YQWMaIALRnI/AAAAAAAALVo/Hy-k4pmMWQMccMwE8Fmc3HGsVh57XHdkACLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/010.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span font-size:="" large="" style="background-color: ><span style=;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John:</span> </span><span>Steve, where can we find your current work and any current projects in-progress?</span></span></h4><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: font-size: large; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Steven:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>My friend, there are NO links to my work other than Amazon, where the Spiffington comics can be found for sale. WIDOW'S WALK is long out-of-print, the numerous anthologies, I couldn't say. </span><span> </span></span></span></h4><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>You know, my biggest "claim-to-fame", such as it may be, is being known as the writer who fervently admonishes new writers NEVER to give anything away for free. "Contributor's copies" is NOT a form of payment. A vague promise of "future royalties" is NOT a form of payment. A publisher's job is to publish. Whether they choose POD or a manageable inventory of printed books, is NOT the writer's problem and should not affect the income of said writer. Yes, technology is wonderful, but it's not a license to cheat the creator of a product. I have yet to hear a solid argument as to why a "publisher" can't pay an advance of a paltry 100 bucks to a novelist, or 5 bucks for a short story. I can pay a bill with either amount. All I can do with "contributor's copies" is fill my office garbage can. And if enough writers stand fast and hold firm to the FACT that their work has value, imagine all the pseudo-editors and publishers, not to mention the beta-readers, who will quickly become Walmart greeters.</span></span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span><span><span><span>Evanston Publishing, the house that produced CENSORING THE CENSORS, folded a few years back. I took advantage of buying up their inventory of those books, hoping to keep them out of the hands of opportunistic sellers who would price-gouge with third-party sales. (At one point, I saw a copy of CtC signed by both you and me offered for the asking price of $1200....remember that convention in Atlanta where we first met in person? That's one of those copies!) I have a limited number of all four issues of "Spiffington, P.I." and a larger number of CENSORING THE CENSORS in my possession that I'm selling for well under the inflated prices, plus, personally signed. So the only link beyond Amazon I have is the e-mail <a class="mailto-link" href="mailto:beai@att.net" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: content-box; color: #007dbc; line-height: normal; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">beai@att.net</a> for anyone interested.</span></span></span></span></h4><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dsNNClptlJA/YQWM66N-iSI/AAAAAAAALVw/ocQy_s0RpXoT9G3xkDV_46nS1H0EO8M6gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dsNNClptlJA/YQWM66N-iSI/AAAAAAAALVw/ocQy_s0RpXoT9G3xkDV_46nS1H0EO8M6gCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/011.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><span><span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John: </span> Steve, what made you write 'American Dreams' and what did you hope to achieve in it?</span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box; line-height: normal;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">Steven:</span> Well, although I've been training at self-quarantine for the last ten years, you're never ready for the main event until it's actually upon you! (laughs) What inspired me to write "American Dreams" was in response to the countless number of times over 13 months I either heard or read of a single person or politician speak about "my country" or "the American People" as if there is only one opinion, one dream and one collective (to use a Star Trek Borg reference). You know -- some outlier politician shrieks into a microphone that amplifies throughout the nation and claims to be a victim of, of all things "censorship". "The American People won't stand for this!" First of all, you're not being 'censored' -- you're all over the internet and national news channels -- not exactly what any sane person could think of as being "silenced". Secondly, I AM one of the 'American People'. Therefore, I must hazard a guess that the politician in question is simply an opportunistic liar. When it came to fellow citizens bloviating about "my" America -- again, over free and unrestricted airwaves and broadcasts, all I could think was that these folks maybe just wanted to be left alone, which is an easy thing to achieve for anyone. Think about it. Want to be left alone? Easy. Talk to no one, keep your head down when go out to get groceries, don't have a phone, don't have friends or family. Mission accomplished. But don't tell ME that "my" America is somehow "lost". And please stop the nonsensical blathering about "censorship", "free speech" and the First Amendment without taking the time to understand -- to TRULY KNOW - what those three very different terms mean. </h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><br />So I wrote the essay in the hope of pointing out that there is not and never was, a single American Dream. People in other countries own houses and property, have satisfying and financially-rewarding work, good healthcare, raise families and achieve satisfaction in mind, body and soul. No different than what we in America can achieve. But a single, shared "dream" based on demographic? Never been any such thing. I don't think I've accomplished enough to benefit this country to say I'm "proud" to be an American; rather, I say I'm "fortunate" to be an American. The differing ways in which we live out our lives, our ability to express dissent and disagreement in a cordial and intelligent manner...this is what defines America. Thus, the essay was born. </h4><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">John:</span> Before we get to your great essay, I want to thank you for being such an amazing guest. I especially appreciate your giving us an extensive insight into your life and creative process.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red;">Steven:</span> Thank you for having me, John. It was an honor. Influences are many, but I've considered you my sole mentor for these many decades.</b></div><div><br /></div></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SKw2VJXESwg/YQRmMEZdDRI/AAAAAAAALVg/WNgEkl6SowU57zFbY9rhLwZn8jvct6IJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SKw2VJXESwg/YQRmMEZdDRI/AAAAAAAALVg/WNgEkl6SowU57zFbY9rhLwZn8jvct6IJQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/009.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">AMERICAN
DREAMS</span></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by Steven
Beai</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Many
a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau</span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Some
belong to strangers and some to folks you know<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- “Plateau”, Curt Kirkwood<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are
as many American Dreams as there are people in America. So, referring to THE
American Dream seems somewhat lazy to me, leaving me to wonder what exactly is
that sole dream shared by over 350 million Americans. And the laziest among us
will answer using redundant words such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">freedom</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">liberty</i>, which mean exactly the
same thing. Moreover, states of being such as “freedom” and “liberty” are
subjective; that is, they are influenced by personal tastes, influences or
opinions. For instance: Let’s say my version of “freedom” includes keeping
loaded firearms in every room of my house within easy reach. Our children are
friends. Your child comes to spend the night at my house. At some point your
child’s brains are blown against the wall of my rec room due to an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accidental misadventure </i>involving one of
my guns. I am sad and traumatized but, you know...<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">freedom.</i> I will attend your child’s funeral with the proper
thoughts and prayers, neither of which are of any substance. It’s a fair bet
you won’t be thinking about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">freedom</i>,
but wondering about a country that promotes a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">free-for-all.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">My freedom has become your
oppressive loss. Hey! </span><i style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">Don’t Tread on Me </i><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">while
I’m treading on the rights of everyone else.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;"> See what I
mean?</span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> H</span>ere, I
would like to offer my personal “American Dreams”. These hopes and desires
apply to me and my situation alone. They have not changed a great deal from my
younger days to the present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">At this
point, I must confess that this is an interactive piece of writing.</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">YOU must
participate to ensure a proper conclusion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Therefore,
everyone reading these words will be compelled...or “invited” if one prefers,
to proffer their own American Dreams, to confess by written comment, as I’m
doing, to define what this strange and overused phrase means to them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><i style="font-family: times;">Okay?
</i><span style="font-family: times;">Okay.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;">Here are
my American Dreams:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: -21.75pt;">1.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: -21.75pt;">The opportunity to do
meaningful creative work free from Governmental restriction, work which
sustains my spirit and with any luck, my body.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: -21.75pt;"> 2.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: -21.75pt;">A clean and safe place in
which to live.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: -29px;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 3. A fair chance to own such
a place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: -29px;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">\ 4. The opportunity to love
and be loved by whomever I choose, providing they will have me in the same
manner.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">5. Enjoying an equal amount
of leisure, in quality if not quantity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">6. Growing older with
dignity after a lifetime of work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">7. Wisdom to know my country
well enough to teach my children the basics of life so that they may go on to
do better than I, rather than be struck down before their prime by bullies,
whether such bullies be in the job arena, in Law Enforcement or in the public
square.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">8. To die in mid-sentence,
surrounded by a Feast of Friends, as did F. Scott Fitzgerald. Barring this, to
die either in my sleep, or with much less drama than I lived most of my</span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">miraculous and improbable life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">There you have it.</span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">No dreams of power. No dreams of wealth or
fame. No proclamations based on politics or religions seeking to control the
actions of strangers...or anyone else, for that matter. I will add one final
thought: My American Dreams have all come true, with the exceptions of numbers
six, seven and eight, which are pending, but looking good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">Now it’s YOUR turn.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">Your American Dreams are
just a comment away.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0.5in;">I look forward to reading
them all in the Comments section below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></o:p><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: times;">END</span></span></b></p><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><p></p></span></div>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-85150970163087539242021-07-12T09:54:00.000-07:002021-07-12T09:54:11.072-07:00PIECES OF MY MIND by Steven Beai<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cljcufNG7WM/YOnso0q6UWI/AAAAAAAALTY/c9yX70_jL-8EMcEgsKbdA4HT-M47wDN_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cljcufNG7WM/YOnso0q6UWI/AAAAAAAALTY/c9yX70_jL-8EMcEgsKbdA4HT-M47wDN_QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/015.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">(Please welcome my friend and guest, Steven Beai.)</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> STEVEN BEAI has been writing and publishing short stories, </b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>novels, comic book scripts and articles for over 30 years. Recently, during lengthy renovations to his home in Colorado, not able to focus on larger projects, he wrote a series of personal essays, journaling his way through the disruption late at night. In so doing, Steven found he was experiencing a level of introspection and perspective both euphoric and terrifying. Here is one of his favorites to start off, and John will post others in the future. Steve can be reached at </b></span><b><a class="mailto-link" href="mailto:beai@att.net" style="background-color: box-sizing: content-box; color: #007dbc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">beai@att.net</a><span style="background-color: font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">PANDEMIC AS PANACEA</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by Steven Beai</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W-kpFQhZ1eE/YOskEVX-nfI/AAAAAAAALT8/w3F7sxz4AlYFAPhwURGkF1oxrDFiEYDvwCPcBGAYYCw/s275/Covid3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W-kpFQhZ1eE/YOskEVX-nfI/AAAAAAAALT8/w3F7sxz4AlYFAPhwURGkF1oxrDFiEYDvwCPcBGAYYCw/w400-h266/Covid3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> On the evening of February 11, 2020, my father died after a</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">mercifully short decline. Two days later, I turned 57 years old.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Two weeks later, whispers of a new virus were about to change the trajectory of all life on Earth. By mid-March, we humans were self-isolating, wearing masks whenever we ventured out to buy toilet paper that usually wasn’t there. Meanwhile, the rest of Earth seemed to be taking a deep breath and sighing with a sort of long-overdue relief. Carbon emissions decreased at a dramatic level, as did general air pollution. Wildlife ventured calmly over once-bustling streets and into suddenly quiet neighborhoods, as we stared out from our windows behind locked doors. Gas prices returned to reasonable levels, crimes of all stripes, from rape and robbery to murder, plummeted. On-line retailers enjoyed their boomiest-boom in history. For the United States Postal Service, along with UPS, FedEx, DHL and other private delivery services, every day was like a Christmas Rush.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The following applies only to my situation. I would never deign to diminish the death of over 600,000 US citizens, because surely this number will grow before this virus is once and finally done. Nor would I ignore the damage done to countless restaurant and retail workers, the actors and musicians, the owners and managers of those related venues and so many more people adversely affected in ways both temporary and final, with a special nod to the superhuman efforts of the educational and medical personnel who, more than any other group, kept this country running. Indeed, these people, like my friend Derek, a nurse who worked 15-hour shifts without a day off for almost eight months, are responsible for getting us through the nightmare of an ongoing pandemic from a deadly respiratory virus. In this essay though I’m speaking only for myself and only for a single aspect of this situation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I’m speaking about self-quarantine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NGnkMt75JhE/YOsj85Bx9BI/AAAAAAAALT4/sQFiA9kgeZ079rIVmaL9vAialKR-iepPwCPcBGAYYCw/s259/Covid4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="294" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NGnkMt75JhE/YOsj85Bx9BI/AAAAAAAALT4/sQFiA9kgeZ079rIVmaL9vAialKR-iepPwCPcBGAYYCw/w400-h294/Covid4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> In the early days of March, 2020, it was obvious to anyone cleaving to facts that yes, this was a serious situation. Yes, you could die from this virus and die easily. Taking the advice to self-quarantine and use a mask on rare forays into public while waiting for a vaccine was a no-brainer to me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Truth to tell, it was like a Gift.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I’m a writer. I work from home. I’m an only child. I had just lost my father, a man whom I was very close to all of my life. I was still processing his death and my loss. My wife was recently retired, so, like me, had no place in particular to go on a daily basis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Prior to the rise of the virus and resulting guidelines, I was constantly on the go, going places that were necessary but of great inconvenience to what I truly value: time to write, time to reflect, time to spend lazy days with my family. I was managing personal appearances to promote the latest published work or speaking engagements at bookstores or groups on subjects ranging from writing to politics, and then honoring those appearances. All that was over now with a great excuse.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Self-quarantine. It was like winning a psychic lottery.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-7fJFVO7hw/YOsonSJVisI/AAAAAAAALUA/mlWRdjJ4MUogl_TtGaEqorp9cooJTctaACLcBGAsYHQ/s275/Covid2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-7fJFVO7hw/YOsonSJVisI/AAAAAAAALUA/mlWRdjJ4MUogl_TtGaEqorp9cooJTctaACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/Covid2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Not only could I sleep in, I could sit with my wife in the afternoons engaging in hours-long discussions about any and everything. Or about nothing. We talked about our past, our future, what we wanted for supper. We talked about movies we had seen and wanted to watch. We talked about my Dad. We watched the desert in silence as we held hands. We fell asleep in each other’s arms, stretched out on the living room couch as the last rays of twilight sun cast shadows over the walls before nightfall. We woke easy and enjoyed long breakfasts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Michelle discovered magical objects to hone her already-advanced photography skills, objects within arm’s reach never before noticed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I mused and wrote thoughts and words I had never had the time to imagine before. I cried freely, with no need to hide my torrent of tears, for there was no one to hide from.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> I had many difficult and troubling moments as well. Many times, I considered drinking again...”just a few”... after not drinking for over 23 years. Several times I considered lying down in the middle of the day and, like several mornings, I considered never getting up again, forcing myself to keep eyes closed to discover what my father had already figured out in his own journey. I considered what it would be like to leave in an unexpected flash of suicide and then considered it from the point of Michelle and my children and there was a sudden epiphany of the sort I have never experienced. I basked in that epiphany until my self-pity disappeared and the self we call Steven Beai emerged wiser, never wanting to experience that particular all-encompassing empathy ever – not ever, ever – again. There is already too much pain in our world. I saw and learned that clearly. Pain doesn’t need any of my selfish help.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> My personal quarantine, a mix of dreams and nightmares, was the best experiences of my life to date. I loved every minute of it. Even now that I’m fully vaccinated.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <i>Pandemic</i> is defined as a disease prevalent over a whole country or the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <i>Panacea</i> is defined as a cure-all for every difficulty and disease.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Some will go untouched by pandemics.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> And there is no such thing as a cure-all, a “panacea” for everything under our sun and stars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> People will continue to cleave to political, religious and social tribes. People will continue to think what they are told, rather than simply think. After all, this is much easier and virtually pain-free. In the context of this pandemic, there will be those who refuse to hear the truth of self-quarantine, the benefits thereof, and the life-saving fact of vaccines. Many will die in the days to come, stubbornly honoring that refusal more than life itself. Many more will mourn their lost loved-ones with regret, forever wondering why.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Perhaps all we can hope for is to keep moving forward to a more advanced and intelligent perspective, a willingness to embrace our personal self-awareness and confidence while denying the voices around us who ridicule such things and tempt us to deny our own instincts in favor of their deceptions. After all, those voices feed on deception and rely on our own self-deceptions and biases. They are forever busy and need constant feeding. I’ve heard their haunting whispers for my entire life.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> They have no defense against the daylight, much less a calm twilight and peaceful nightfall. They are more frightened and weak than we imagine compared to the courage we possess to see ourselves as we are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Thanks to the pandemic, the self-quarantine, et. al., I finally know where these voices have lived since time immemorial.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> They live in the dark nights of our souls.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">END</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b>(Please Comment - We'd like to know what you think.)</b></span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-72634064557248925642021-05-05T08:14:00.000-07:002021-05-05T08:14:02.900-07:00THE TOP TEN HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MkBtyIRgtww/YJKxkVS1qPI/AAAAAAAALM0/HWXu_owzf0M2v06ccxMFSjLyP4VKAEpIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s311/Horror.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="311" height="208" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MkBtyIRgtww/YJKxkVS1qPI/AAAAAAAALM0/HWXu_owzf0M2v06ccxMFSjLyP4VKAEpIgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h208/Horror.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p> </p><p><b>Zombies and Vampires and Ghosts, O My! I've always loved horror movies, and recently, in Scare Central, I ran across an article or list titled THE 200 BEST HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME. I eagerly went through it to see how high or low my favorites were ranked or if they were even included at all. I did find my share of surprises. Surely Halloween (#90) and The Exorcist (#123) should have been higher. Also, four movies that were made in just the last few years made the top ten. Does that suggest bias or a growing maturity in horror movies?</b></p><p><b>Here are Scare Central's TOP TEN HORROR MOVIES. Do you agree or disagree with them, and why? Which movies would you add or remove? Please comment and let me know. I'm curious!</b></p><p><b>THE TOP TEN:</b></p><p><b>1. Psycho (1960)</b></p><p><b>2. Get Out (2017)</b></p><p><b>3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)</b></p><p><b>4. Us (2019)</b></p><p><b>5. Alien (1979)</b></p><p><b>6. King Kong (1933)</b></p><p><b>7. Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922)</b></p><p><b>8. The Night of the Hunter (1955)</b></p><p><b>9. The Invisible Man (2020)</b></p><p><b>10. A Quiet Place (2018)</b></p><p><br /></p>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-46487631726937232402021-04-27T17:47:00.000-07:002021-04-27T17:47:35.547-07:00MY MOST CHALLENGING INTERVIEW<h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-space: pre-wrap; background-color: color: #050505; font-size: large;">HERE'S MY LATEST INTERVIEW, WHICH YOU CAN ALSO VISIT BY CLICKING ON<span style="color: red;"> </span><span>THE SITE <a href="https://bit.ly/2R0DhrY" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">BOOKS CHARMING</span></a></span>. Aakanksha Jain asks me questions I've never been asked before, and I respond with some strange answers. If you want to learn something that no one knows about me, just read on.</span></span></b></h4><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--mHr3Co4vzU/YIhHu3eI27I/AAAAAAAALMY/_Voc9IcJ5_0VnFTRvEo_Xzmty8DPuQTuwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="78" data-original-width="150" height="208" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--mHr3Co4vzU/YIhHu3eI27I/AAAAAAAALMY/_Voc9IcJ5_0VnFTRvEo_Xzmty8DPuQTuwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h208/image.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><br /><p></p><div><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Please give us a short intro of
yourself in 3<sup>rd</sup> person –</span></b></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">John B. Rosenman was an
English professor at Norfolk State University where he designed and taught a
course in how to write Science fiction and Fantasy. He is a former Chairman of
the Board of the Horror Writers Association and has published 250 stories in
places such as <i>Weird Tales</i>, <i>Whitley Strieber’s Aliens</i>, <i>Fangoria</i>,
<i>Galaxy</i>, <i>Endless Apocalypse</i>, <i>The Age of Wonders</i>, and the <i>Hot
Blood</i> erotic horror series. John has published two dozen books, including
SF action-adventure novels such as <i>Beyond Those Distant Stars,</i> <i>Speaker
of the Shakk, A Senseless Act of</i> <i>Beauty</i>, <i>Alien
Dreams</i>, and the <i>Inspector of the Cross </i>series (Crossroad
Press). He has also published a four-book box set, <i>The Amazing Worlds
of John B. Rosenman </i>(MuseItUp Publishing). In addition, he has
published two mainstream novels, <i>The Best Laugh Last </i>(McPherson
& Company) and the Young Adult <i>The Merry-Go-Round Man </i>(Crossroad
Press). Recently, he completed the first two novels of a new <i>Dreamfarer</i> series.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two
of John’s major themes are the endless, mind-stretching wonders of the universe
and the limitless possibilities of transformation—sexual, cosmic, and
otherwise. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">Q.1 Tell us a something about
yourself not many people know? </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. I’m neurotic and often insecure
around others. Worry and fret a lot. Yesterday I had my second Covid shot and I
worried about finding and getting to the place on time even though I had
already been there. In many ways, I feel different from others. Part of this is
related to my writing, and part of it is just me. I also have a low-grade
psychic ability. For example, when I watch Jeopardy, I always know a split
second in advance when the Daily Double is going to come on. I wish I had such
an ability when it came to the stock market!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.2 Are we going to read more from
you in the near future? Any new project you’re working on?</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt 7.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">A. </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">I recently finished <i>Dreamfarer</i>,
which was inspired by one word I made up: <i>Dreamfarer</i>. Also, I finished a sequel to that novel. Its
title is <i>Go East, Young Man</i>. Both will be published by Crossroad Press. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">Dreamfarer </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">is a novel of the future when 70 percent of humanity are serviced by
dream machines after exercising their “option” at the age of thirty-two. These
CIUs (Cerebral Interface Units) provide adventurous and romantic fantasies that
are far more exciting and fulfilling than ordinary life in a post-nuclear-war
America, now ravaged and divided into seven autonomous districts. The year is
2170, ninety years after World War III, and America, Russia, China, and the
Caliphate are struggling for supremacy. Nuclear war on Earth is now banned, but
the superpowers have exported their hostilities and suspicions to Mars and
other planets, where they compete to control the solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">What happens to a “Dreamfarer” when he wakes after seven years in a
dream machine to find that he has become a Waker, one of the three percent of
humanity who are immune to further dream stimulation and must face a dull and
tedious existence? This is the case with Sam Adams, whose salvation lies in
joining a movement to subvert and destroy the very technology that has robbed
humanity of their identity and purpose. In the process, he becomes romantically
involved with two radically different women, Trina and Diana, and through
unexpected acts of heroism, finds he has become a national hero as well as a
double agent like Seth Lance, a hero in one of his dream series.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Other than the
Dreamfarer series, I’m waiting for the next short story idea to surface. I will
have two short stories coming in Dark Owl Press’s odd & weird Western
collection <i>Something Wicked this Way Rides </i>and one in <i>A Celebration
of Storytelling</i>. An H.P. Lovecraft horror tale will appear in <i>Lovecraftian</i>.
Other than that, I’m waiting for my next short story idea to strike.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.3 What inspired you to write<i> Inspector
of the Cross series</i>?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Well, I’d read a lot of Golden Age
and later science fiction and grew up in the fifties watching science fiction /
horror movies like <i>Them!</i>, <i>The Thing</i>, and so on. Plus, I read Joe
Haldeman’s award-winning sci-fi novel <i>The Forever War </i>about a soldier
who was a thousand years old thanks to relativistic space travel and decided to
up the ante and make my hero four times as old because he traveled between the
stars in suspended animation. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.4 What is the most difficult thing
about writing characters from the opposite sex?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Wow, I like to say that people are
people regardless of gender and to an extent that’s true. I recently wrote <i>Skyburst</i>
about a teenage girl, and I want to believe I got it right. I know that my wife
thinks differently than I do about some things. For example, when we’re
watching a TV show, she usually notices people’s hair, makeup, what they’re wearing
and comments on their color, design, and suitability. I seldom pick up on such
stuff, so I’d say that details such as clothes, cooking, and the like often
skim right past me. Since I write often about futuristic societies, such
matters are important. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.5 How do you develop your plots and
characters? Do you use any set formula?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. When it comes to developing plots
and characters—Nope. I’m a pantser, not a plotter, and I usually make it up on
the fly from the merest wisp of an idea. At the same time, I do have set
formulas. In my novels, I like to write
about Christlike heroes who have fabulous, mind-stretching adventures in the
far future. This is the case with Turtan in my <i>Inspector of the Cross</i>
series. Imagine meeting your great-great-great grandchild when he’s an old, old
man.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">With short stories, I’m more flexible
and there’s a greater range of plots and characters, more variety. Some of my
stories are comic and satirical in nature, and others horrific and erotic. It’s
safe to say that I’ve tried my hand at a lot of things.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.6 How do you see the future of
science fiction literature? Will sci-fi maintain its independence or intertwine
with other literary genres?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Gosh, I wish I had a crystal ball.
As technology develops and humanity spreads out among the stars, I think that
sci-fi will play a greater role and will become more intertwined with other
genres. I once published an article called “Literary Racism,” whose premise was
that genres like science fiction, fantasy, and horror (romance too) were looked
down upon as being non-literary and not deserving of respect. With regard to
science fiction and speculative fiction in particular, I think there will be
more of a merging, though how much I can’t say.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.7 How do you see the relationship
between science fiction and culture? How about the boundaries between science
fiction and reality?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Science fiction continues to play
a growing role in shaping culture, which is becoming more and more fluid and
virtual. Look at gamers who live in an online reality for several hours each
day. Or those addicted to their favorite TV series or shows. It’s not just
science fiction; it’s also fantasy and other genres, all brought to you via
Netflix and other outlets. More and more, reality will be an online phenomenon,
either on a computer platform or in a virtual reality matrix. Speaking
personally, most of my socializing now occurs online. This was all predicted nearly
a hundred years ago by E.M. Forster in his novelette “The Machine Stops”. Talk
about predicting the future!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.8 To what extent can science
fiction affect or improve the developments in science and technology in human
life? Is it right to say that science fiction can change what human life looks
like in the future?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Let’s hope that climate change
doesn’t destroy us first. Even if it doesn’t, human life may be reduced to a
worldwide, desperate struggle to survive if we don’t heed the signs of global
warming <i>fast</i>. With our current day science and technology, we have the
ability to vastly improve human existence. Perhaps we can eradicate most
diseases and deformities and expand the average lifespan to 120. The choice is
up to us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.9 Is classic science fiction
literature different from modern science fiction literature? Have the key aims
of the genre changed considerably or not?</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Well, the science in modern
science fiction is usually more accurate because it reflects the progress in
scientific knowledge. In the case of “hard” science fiction, the science and
the scientific method are especially rigorous. Also, there are some discoveries
that are missing in classic sci-fi—black holes, anti-matter, DNA profiling, etc.
However, I don’t think the key aims have changed that much. The writers of
science fiction today are still trying to understand nature on Earth and the
nature of the universe as well as its possibilities. I think that there is more
emphasis on craftsmanship, editing, and literary quality, partly because of the
growth in readership. Also, writers address more often the central issue of our
time: the threat of global warming to our species here on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.10 What do you think are the main
reasons of the popularity of science fiction? To what extent has the film
industry helped in popularizing the genre?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. I think one reason is suggested by
Jack Williamson’s Hugo Award Winning autobiography, <i>Wonder’s Child: My Life
in Science Fiction</i>. From the beginning a sense of wonder at exploring the
unknown has been one of the fascinations of science fiction. And today, that
sense of wonder contributes to the popularity of science fiction more than ever
before. Certainly, movies and TV programs have contributed to the genre’s
growth in popularity, but don’t forget online games, especially of the
role-playing variety. These days, an individual can become his—or her—own
avatar and be an active participant in worlds of make-believe. You know, at one
time, science fiction was essentially a hobby of white guys. Now everyone takes
part in its celebration, regardless of gender, race, or sexual orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.11 Ray Bradbury considers sci-fi as
“the important literature in the history of the world, because it’s the history
of ideas, and the history of our civilization birthing itself”. Do you agree
with him, as many sci-fi stories do, indeed, depict disaster?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="font-size: large; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I think that Ray is right on target. Science fiction contains the history
of ideas and speculates about what is to come. It cautions us about future
disasters, man-made or otherwise. I recently had a short story called “Free
Air” published in an anthology titled <i>A Dying Planet</i>. In my story, the
air we breathe is in very short supply indeed. But beyond such concerns,
science fiction embraces and contains all other literature. It is the largest
genre of all. You can have romances and detective stories, westerns, thrillers,
alternate histories, etc. that incorporate science-fiction elements. On top of
that, you can have soft and hard science fiction on a sliding continuum. You
can have just a dab of science or a whole lot.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.12 Science fiction has a long
history. Which era do you consider the most effective period in the whole
history of the genre?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. That’s hard to say. The science
fiction of the forties and fifties gave us so many of the themes and tropes we
continue to harvest today. So from that point of view, it was extremely effective.
However, the present period of science fiction is the most effective of all because
it benefits from the most recent and advanced scientific discoveries, and
because the writing is often so much more sophisticated and polished than it
was in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.13 In many science fiction stories,
the existence of God is denied. Could we call science fiction as an atheist
literary genre?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. No, we couldn’t. Oh, there is some
atheistic science fiction, and I suppose there is a tendency for scientists to
value facts and reality over spirituality. However, there is much science
fiction that speculates about God and supernatural subjects. Checking my home
library, I see <i>New Altars</i>, a collection of “Science Fiction &
Fantasy Stories about Spirituality and Religion”. And in my <i>Inspector of the
Cross</i> series, God is a female presence that pervades the multiverse and
adores the hero. In another of my novels, <i>Dax Rigby, War Correspondent</i>,
I feature a new religion, the All-Faith and describe God as the “mother
universe”. Sometimes science fiction opens up the subject of divinity and
explores whole new vistas.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.14 How many books have you written?
Which one is your favorite?</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. I have about twenty novels and
twenty short stories available on Amazon. In addition, I’ve published over 250
short stories. It’s hard to say which book is my favorite. One that often comes
to mind is <i>A Senseless Act of Beauty</i> because it’s my most ambitious and
experimental. At 115,000 words, it’s my longest novel and contains stories I’ve
published separately. <i>A Senseless Act of Beauty</i> is my only framework
novel, containing short stories that interact symbolically and otherwise with
the larger story. I really took chances here in writing about Aaron Okonkwo, a
Nigerian scientist in the far future who visits a distant planet where he has
to recover and rediscover his ancient warrior heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.15 Do you have any unique and
quirky writing habits?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. I’m a pantser, so I tend to write
without a net or outline and make things up on the fly. I used to go to a local
Barnes & Noble for inspiration. I’d simply walk around, and chance things
I’d see would ignite ideas and story plots. Once I invented a new word,
“Dreamfarer” and began a whole series as a result. In general, I don’t write
according to a schedule but when the spirit and convenience allow.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.16 How do you select the names of
your characters?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. They tend to be symbolic. Stella
McMasters in <i>Beyond Those Distant Stars</i> travels to distant stars, so of
course her first name is Stella or Star. And she becomes a dominant force so
her name has to be something like McMasters. The name Turtan in my <i>Inspector
of the Cross</i> series stems from Turtanazalene, a made-up coolant that
malfunctioned and killed the hero. So when God resurrects him, it seems
appropriate that the first six letters be used for his name, since they suggest
that he conquered death itself. Incidentally, Turtan’s real (secret) name is
one of the most ordinary and undignified I could think of. One of my friends
disliked it, but I felt it was appropriate. Don’t our most glorious, legendary
heroes sometimes come from the humblest of origins? Sometimes I’ll pick a name
just because I like it, even though others do not. This is the case with Dax
Rigby, for example. I just love the sound.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.17 Do you read your book reviews?
How do you deal with good or bad ones?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. I read them now and then. I want
all of my readers to love what I write, and when they criticize my books, I try
to learn from their comments. Sometimes they hurt. For example, I just read a
review on Amazon of <i>Starfighter Chronicles</i>, which contains the first
three novels of my <i>Inspector of the Cross</i> series. Do you know, she only
gave it 4 out of 5 stars? The nerve! Well, I read what she wrote, digested it,
and before I left, I reminded myself that it was just a personal opinion. Yes,
sometimes a review will sting, but you have to learn from it, then brush it off
and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.18 Which famous person, living or
dead would you like to meet and why?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. I wish I had met John Keats, the
great English poet who died at twenty-six and whose grave bears the epitaph, “Here
lies one whose name was writ in water.” He died of consumption, i.e.,
tuberculosis, and for the last two years of his life, he was too sick to write.
He sensed early on he was going to die and prayed for ten more years which he
would devote to poetry. He didn’t even get five. Yet at the time of his death,
his literary achievement surpassed that of Shakespeare, Milton, and others at
the same age. It would be nice to know how far he would have gone if he had
been given the chance. Perhaps he would have been the greatest literary genius
of them all. I would like to be a time traveler so I could go back with a
doctor and cure him. Then he could have both his poetry and his beloved Fanny
Brawne.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">Q.19 What is your favorite book from
other authors and why?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Boy, this is tough. Let me mention
three.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">1. George R. R. Martin’s The <i>Game
of Thrones</i> series, especially the first three books. I was overwhelmed by
the rich, complex world creation of seven different kingdoms and the characters
contained therein. Brienne of Tarth, Tyrion Lannister, Arya Stark, Daenerys
Targaryen and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">2. Mike Resnick’s <i>Kirinyaga</i>.
Partly because I spent my professional life teaching at black colleges, this
novel continues to resonate with me. Imagine putting an African country or
tribe in an orbiting space station and trying to preserve it against the threat
of neocolonialism.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">3. Dan Simmons’ epic, mind-blowing <i>Hyperion
Cantos</i>. I’ll never forget the Time Tombs or the seven pilgrims who visit
Hyperion to confront the fearful Shrike, the Lord of Pain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">Q.20 Share the experience of your
journey so far?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">A. Rocky, challenging, rocky, with
periods of inspiration and fulfillment divided by vast desserts of despair.
Okay, I exaggerate a bit, but whoever said writing would be easy? If I sell a
book, it makes my day, and if someone writes me and tells me how much they
enjoyed one of my stories, I feel like dancing. Suddenly, it all seems
worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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(previously published as The Turtan Trilogy). Thanks to suspended animation, Turtan is over 3500 years old and travels on freeze ships to distant worlds. His mission is to investigate weapons that will help humanity turn the tide against their ancient nemesis…the Cenknife. Vicious aliens, the Cenknife seek to conquer the universe and enslave humanity. And only one man can save us!</b></h3><div><b><br /></b></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>Available on Amazon: </b><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: blue; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2IphgP9">https://amzn.to/2IphgP9</a></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BpEHon7uHoc/YBBx2ARy5aI/AAAAAAAALIA/j1Wb_quYLUUclx1mlnMLe837IY2VNQMhgCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/Starfighter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BpEHon7uHoc/YBBx2ARy5aI/AAAAAAAALIA/j1Wb_quYLUUclx1mlnMLe837IY2VNQMhgCLcBGAsYHQ/w254-h400/Starfighter.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div> </div></div><div><br /></div><h2 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">BOOK 6 - The series heads in a whole new direction.</h2><h3 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/sciencefiction?__eep__=6&__gid__=301139446688226&__cft__[0]=AZWWVT7EfTgJrEE1pe22MEWB0RbDPBlekGtsXgF9TSPXWbezsaBzTDfQZQeAwH-ymHjBWyMPTIAOrqIKZaMKPXLnBPL5_sasDk0ijLZ9yBjXTokczcSKm49A0Gj0CSfCCuTFqRzYdccRp7Kl8OxD_eXy&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#sciencefiction</a></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/adventuretime?__eep__=6&__gid__=301139446688226&__cft__[0]=AZWWVT7EfTgJrEE1pe22MEWB0RbDPBlekGtsXgF9TSPXWbezsaBzTDfQZQeAwH-ymHjBWyMPTIAOrqIKZaMKPXLnBPL5_sasDk0ijLZ9yBjXTokczcSKm49A0Gj0CSfCCuTFqRzYdccRp7Kl8OxD_eXy&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#adventuretime</a></span> - Have you ever Crashed in life and had your whole safe, secure, loving world go away? Well, it isn't as bad as what happens to Turtan.</h3><h3 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><br />Turtan's ship crashes on Masada and he is almost killed. Though he recovers, his face is destroyed and he has lost his memory. He does not even know who he is. </h3><div><br /></div><h3 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">What’s worse, he finds he is in the middle of an endless war between two vicious camps. How can he possibly survive?</h3><div><br /></div><h3 style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Available on Amazon: <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://amzn.to/2HgdyqA?fbclid=IwAR30gkz6H0s7IufNABvP9M_RH28gB2xx_boSc9eHakKpNw4Y3E9p2RpF-tE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2HgdyqA</a></span> </h3><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rGlFiDtkgk0/YBB0BNUWCJI/AAAAAAAALIM/paY3NH76kk442QcAs6fyjt1SGaPkuGO3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Crash%2Bcover2%2B%2528low%2Bres%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rGlFiDtkgk0/YBB0BNUWCJI/AAAAAAAALIM/paY3NH76kk442QcAs6fyjt1SGaPkuGO3ACLcBGAsYHQ/w266-h400/Crash%2Bcover2%2B%2528low%2Bres%2529.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-44366971519791191952020-08-10T13:26:00.002-07:002020-08-10T13:32:23.659-07:00Live Interview on YouTube - Come and Ask Some Questions<div 0px="" 15px="" :="" arial="" break-word="" class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" color:="" egoe="" font-family:="" font-size:="" helvetica="" historic="" margin:="" overflow-wrap:="" pre-wrap="" quot="" sans-serif="" ui=""><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;">Join Keylin Rivers and me for a live interview on August 11, 2020 at 6 pm. 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<br /></span></span></div></div>John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-5631985159243175052020-07-17T11:41:00.001-07:002020-08-10T13:58:53.235-07:00Two New Interviews<b>Recently I had five new interviews concerning my writing. I'm including two of them here. One is a vlogcast with Justin Rich (available on YouTube) and the other is a podcast with Jamie Davis that just went live. Please check them out and let me know what you think.</b><br />
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John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-10029022619293133062020-04-02T07:35:00.002-07:002020-04-02T07:35:58.199-07:00Worried about the Coronavirus and other Environmental Problems?<div 14px="" 6px="" arial="" c1e21="" color:="" font-family:="" font-size:="" helvetica="" margin-bottom:="" sans-serif="">
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John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-57040302353021238212020-01-10T17:18:00.001-08:002020-01-10T17:18:08.186-08:00Welcome Gift by Jane P. Rosenman<br />
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such as a free oil change from Firestone. All of my visits were rewarding, but
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sweet old man. We talked briefly, then he presented me with a strange metal
utensil with a wooden handle. Perplexed, I asked him what it was. He kindly
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John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-17757041103246694582019-10-22T13:26:00.000-07:002019-10-22T13:26:40.838-07:00ANOTHER BOOK SIGNING AND TWO NEW BOOKS ON KINDLE<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">TWO OF MY NOVELS</b><b> ARE OUT IN KINDLE! </b><b style="font-weight: bold;">They include the adventures of Stella Masterson, a female cyborg in <i>Beyond Those Distant Stars </i>and the heroics of Theophilus Merlan, a most unusual geologist in <i>Speaker of the Shakk</i>.</b><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><em> <br /> <img height="342" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/77d1f73fdc2589d1a6508b21f/images/48b1327f-7896-49a1-ae49-bd85bb7eadbf.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; max-width: 10000px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 342px;" width="342" /><br /><br />The Merry-Go-Round Man</em> is the most personal of my novels, being based directly on my childhood. It's a rite of passage, coming-of-age Young Adult story of three boys growing up in the 1950s and their initiation into sex, violence, and self-discovery. Two of the boys were my friends, and one of them is me . . . sort of. It's available in all formats: Kindle, Print, and Audio - and costs only 99¢ on Kindle. Available at: <a href="https://johnrosenman.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77d1f73fdc2589d1a6508b21f&id=928dec7ec5&e=f6989dabf2" rel="noopener" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2kiqg9v</a> </strong></span><br /> </h3>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong><span style="color: red;">TWO BOOK SIGNINGS</span> (Sept. 14 and Oct. 26) - It's never too early to mention them. Both signings are at Book Exchange. The first (see below) is on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 2720 N. Mall Dr. #200 from 12 to 2 pm. I'll be signing books and chatting with visitors. A few of the novels I'll be selling are featured below.<em>A Senseless Act of Beauty</em> and T<em>he Merry-Go-Round Man</em> (SciFi and Young Adult). Hope to see you there! Check this link for details: </strong></span><a href="https://johnrosenman.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=77d1f73fdc2589d1a6508b21f&id=b1ad18c3ca&e=f6989dabf2" rel="noopener" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.facebook.com/events/513151479491342/</strong></a></h3>
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<span class="module-3 text-container">It wasn't until I was five or ten thousand words into <em>A Senseless Act of Beauty</em> that I realized how ambitious a venture it was. Should I quit and try something safer? Ultimately the novel ended up over 115,000 words long. What's more, it's a frame narrative that contains four thematically-linked stories, two of which are about Nigeria, a country I'd never visited. Is this epic about a futuristic Nigerian hero struggling to save a New Africa in space any good? Check it out and let me know. It's free with #KindleUnlimited at <a href="https://amzn.to/2dXWwwY" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">A Senseless Act of Beauty</a> -</span></div>
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<span class="module-4 text-container">This is even bigger, since it involves an entire series. The sixth book in the <em>Inspector of the Cross</em> series will be out later this year. Actually, this undertaking crept up on me incrementally. When I wrote the first novel about Turtan, my star-travelling hero, I never intended to write a second. I suppose that's the case with other authors as well. To the right is a GIF I designed of the first three novels in the series. I call it <em>The Turtan Trilogy</em>. It's at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Turtan-Trilogy-Full-length-Sci-Fi-Romance-ebook/dp/B015S48FFE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Turtan+Trilogy&qid=1563476421&s=books&sr=1-1">The Turtan Trilogy</a> -</span></div>
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<br /><b>Fiona McVie recently interviewed me on her blog, <i>Author Interviews</i>. It's perhaps the most comprehensive interview I've ever had. Fiona certainly asks a lot of questions, some of which are rather</b><b> personal. Please check it out at </b><a href="https://bit.ly/2ZGfDRi">https://bit.ly/2ZGfDRi</a> -</h3>
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John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-70057354139955174592018-12-31T12:05:00.000-08:002019-02-02T12:16:32.396-08:00Can Life Imitate Art?<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="anfhv" data-offset-key="ajigm-0-0" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">
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John B. Rosenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08067884623915076753noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680746770808032142.post-42306924820875432152018-06-27T09:37:00.000-07:002018-06-27T09:37:25.370-07:00DO MIRACLES HAPPEN? HERE'S ONE POSSIBILITY<div style="background-color: box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 28px; max-width: 640px;">
I'd like to ask a few questions:<br />
1. Do miracles happen? 2. If so, are they always caused by God or have a supernatural origin? In other words, are there ever any everyday miracles that have natural or medical causes? 3. Have you personally ever experienced any miracles, and if so, of what kind?</div>
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These and other questions occurred to me after reading the article below. The link is provided at the end.<br />
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Because of a dune buggy accident, McKinley was brain dead for days and his parents were about to donate his organs to five children. He <span style="background-color: font-family: "lato" , sans-serif;">suffered multiple skull fractures as well as kidney failure “due to the lack of oxygen after his cardiac arrest,” according to the Facebook page. Fox 10 reported that he continues to suffer from nerve pain and seizures every day, but he’s keeping a positive attitude.</span><br />
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“I said I could turn sideways and put salsa in there and eat chips and dip out of my head,” he joked to Fox 10. “No more washing dishes for me!”</div>
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He’s had three brain surgeries and continues to make progress as he recovers at home. A video posted to Facebook showed McKinley <a href="https://www.facebook.com/donate/2494425870782039/2504667713091188/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(39, 196, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282f2f; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">sinking a basketball into a hoop</a> at rehab last month, while another showed him <a href="https://www.facebook.com/donate/2494425870782039/2503884373169522/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(39, 196, 255) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282f2f; padding: 1px 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">taking a stroll</a> with the help of a walker.</div>
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McKinley told Fox 10 that he feels he was in heaven while he was unconscious.</div>
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“I was in an open field walking straight,” he explained. “There’s no other explanation but God. There’s no other way. Even doctors said it.”</div>
Link: <a href="http://people.com/human-interest/boy-wakes-after-parents-sign-organ-donation-papers/">http://people.com/human-interest/boy-wakes-after-parents-sign-organ-donation-papers/</a></div>
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