Private Page (family)
[This is a private page for the particular Filipino nieces and nephews and their spouses that I have chosen to address it to. There are no links on the website back to it.]
This involves no sales pitch to sell books and is informative only with a free gift offer of a book or books with no strings attached. It involves my historical fiction series, particularly because of the Filipino direction to the story and its connection to works in progress about and connected to the Philippines.
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I am a devote of self-publishing, which has reached a level of respectability, but has also produced some mediocre work. This series is literature and not mediocre. Several very qualified readers, who are accomplished people in their own right, are fans of this series. One is somewhat of an expert in the locales and era of my story. Though written on an adult level, the series is now in the libraries of two prestigious high schools (one in Knoxville and one in Houston) which required an approval process in each case. Both, one private and one public, are notable on a national level.
It was apparent to me from the beginning that I intended to write literature that would not be of the popular fiction currently in vogue. Thus my people . . . my characters . . . would be of the ordinary types I know in my personal life, not antiheroes, but good folks like your family and mine, real people . . . my stories, being period fiction, would be glued together in the classic narrative style of a writer such as C.S. Forester as seen in his classic The African Queen of Bogart and Hepburn fame . . . and sexual action would not dominate every page. Literature is my goal not sales. People have imaginations for what goes on behind bedroom doors, but the sexual risks to women in life are viable subject matter and a theme of mine. It is unfortunately one of the current scourges of our world.
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I have wanted to engage my nieces and nephews in this series out of the respect I have for all of you and that I am writing of your cultural heritage, though that comes in near the end of the series, being dominate in book five. The next 3 to 5 volume series, set mostly in the Philippines, really gets into that of course. The first two volumes of that Philippine story are currently in progress. First however, it is necessary to preface this with the suggestion that everyone usually has misconceptions about those they know personally but do not engage with daily. So, to any of you who chooses to look at the following material from this point onward, I will suggest that any objective reader who were to read my fiction might find more liberal themes than conservative ones. There is a balance.
In elaborating, I will not preach political conservatism, so please keep reading if you start to fear that is happening. This very short treatise is about Literature not politics.
Philosophically, I have been since childhood: egalitarian, a conservationist and environmentalist, an advocate of peace over military solutions, and totally color blind to race and ethnicity (however much people claim that is impossible for anyone). I actually prefer to be around other peoples, and would like to still be in the Philippines. Thus I dated a black Puerto Rican behind my family’s back. My parents were egalitarian too but had their limits due to the culture. I followed that with a Chinese-Cuban, a refuge whose family was destroyed by Castro. But my point goes beyond the attraction of the opposite gender, which is an obvious breaker of barriers; as my ethnic minority male friends through the years are also more numerous than white.
Where some of you and I may differ, depending on each of our personal views, is in application. I share many of the same causes with you; however, I share with America’s founders’ an absolute abhorrence of strong government and strong respect for individual rights above all. That is not to say that government guidance and limited regulation are not necessary. They are. But when I am in danger, government cannot be there. Thus such freedoms as self-defense are critical. *[For the purity of this literary discussion a very brief, three sentence comment on these matters is shoved to the very bottom of this page.]
The above points being made, I want to make you aware of this series, if you weren’t already, and to offer copies in e-format or paperback to any who become interested. [I’m resetting the Kindles, so e-books will take a little while.]
About the Story:
Certain things occur when writing that the writer may not be fully able to understand or analyze. For example, without conscious intention, but certainly without my objection, several female characters became as important as the male ones, and the main female character took over the story, leading to the five volume series being named after her ['Sunny' for her Navajo name, Jóhonaá (in the story) Jóhonaa'éí (in actuality)].
Also certain scenes and themes seemed to seep in without conscious intent. They are surely a part of the author, but could involve some kind of guidance as well. One particular romantic scene came to me almost instantly and wholly complete . . . very weird. It was a romantic conversation involving two people of differing races and opposite sides of conflict.
As to your possible interest as a reader, the violence issue must be addressed: This series is historical fiction carrying with it the violence of earlier eras in desolate or frontier locations. Within these volumes such matters are realistically and logically played out. Nothing is ‘Hollywoodized’; and events and characters are based on everyday lifelike existences by ordinary people like you or I. That was and is my watchword as an author. The characters within this story are neither desperados nor legendary lawmen; they’re just ‘folks’. Due to the threats of the era and the persons’ situations, two characters push the limits of aggression over the course of the series and question themselves for it. These stories are not simple Hollywood-like action tales, but the logical dangers of the historical times are there.
To further inform, the following, slightly hyped text is the standard promotional advertisement currently being used online. If it does not interest you, that’s fine. Otherwise contact me. If you so choose, the volume that is set in the Philippines (vol. 5), like each of the others, can be read alone; however, obviously, much is lost in character growth, especially that of Sunny.
Spanning from Civil War Virginia to Asian jungles during the Filipino American War in the Philippine Islands in 1902.
The Historical series SUNNY OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST provides within its pages . . . American family values, Christian faith, sacrifice and courage to immeasurable degrees, cross cultural love and marriage, cultural and racial conflicts . . . and deals with the problems of wars of conquest, subjugation of native peoples, imperialism's pluses and flaws . . . and contains some American History you probably did not know . . .
THEMES of daring forbidden love, coming of age education, human trafficking, military duty, bravery, and abuses, and of undaunted human courage and sacrifice . . . a new kind of American story
[This is a private page for the particular Filipino nieces and nephews and their spouses that I have chosen to address it to. There are no links on the website back to it.]
This involves no sales pitch to sell books and is informative only with a free gift offer of a book or books with no strings attached. It involves my historical fiction series, particularly because of the Filipino direction to the story and its connection to works in progress about and connected to the Philippines.
_______________________________________________________________
I am a devote of self-publishing, which has reached a level of respectability, but has also produced some mediocre work. This series is literature and not mediocre. Several very qualified readers, who are accomplished people in their own right, are fans of this series. One is somewhat of an expert in the locales and era of my story. Though written on an adult level, the series is now in the libraries of two prestigious high schools (one in Knoxville and one in Houston) which required an approval process in each case. Both, one private and one public, are notable on a national level.
It was apparent to me from the beginning that I intended to write literature that would not be of the popular fiction currently in vogue. Thus my people . . . my characters . . . would be of the ordinary types I know in my personal life, not antiheroes, but good folks like your family and mine, real people . . . my stories, being period fiction, would be glued together in the classic narrative style of a writer such as C.S. Forester as seen in his classic The African Queen of Bogart and Hepburn fame . . . and sexual action would not dominate every page. Literature is my goal not sales. People have imaginations for what goes on behind bedroom doors, but the sexual risks to women in life are viable subject matter and a theme of mine. It is unfortunately one of the current scourges of our world.
_______________________________________________________________
I have wanted to engage my nieces and nephews in this series out of the respect I have for all of you and that I am writing of your cultural heritage, though that comes in near the end of the series, being dominate in book five. The next 3 to 5 volume series, set mostly in the Philippines, really gets into that of course. The first two volumes of that Philippine story are currently in progress. First however, it is necessary to preface this with the suggestion that everyone usually has misconceptions about those they know personally but do not engage with daily. So, to any of you who chooses to look at the following material from this point onward, I will suggest that any objective reader who were to read my fiction might find more liberal themes than conservative ones. There is a balance.
In elaborating, I will not preach political conservatism, so please keep reading if you start to fear that is happening. This very short treatise is about Literature not politics.
Philosophically, I have been since childhood: egalitarian, a conservationist and environmentalist, an advocate of peace over military solutions, and totally color blind to race and ethnicity (however much people claim that is impossible for anyone). I actually prefer to be around other peoples, and would like to still be in the Philippines. Thus I dated a black Puerto Rican behind my family’s back. My parents were egalitarian too but had their limits due to the culture. I followed that with a Chinese-Cuban, a refuge whose family was destroyed by Castro. But my point goes beyond the attraction of the opposite gender, which is an obvious breaker of barriers; as my ethnic minority male friends through the years are also more numerous than white.
Where some of you and I may differ, depending on each of our personal views, is in application. I share many of the same causes with you; however, I share with America’s founders’ an absolute abhorrence of strong government and strong respect for individual rights above all. That is not to say that government guidance and limited regulation are not necessary. They are. But when I am in danger, government cannot be there. Thus such freedoms as self-defense are critical. *[For the purity of this literary discussion a very brief, three sentence comment on these matters is shoved to the very bottom of this page.]
The above points being made, I want to make you aware of this series, if you weren’t already, and to offer copies in e-format or paperback to any who become interested. [I’m resetting the Kindles, so e-books will take a little while.]
About the Story:
Certain things occur when writing that the writer may not be fully able to understand or analyze. For example, without conscious intention, but certainly without my objection, several female characters became as important as the male ones, and the main female character took over the story, leading to the five volume series being named after her ['Sunny' for her Navajo name, Jóhonaá (in the story) Jóhonaa'éí (in actuality)].
Also certain scenes and themes seemed to seep in without conscious intent. They are surely a part of the author, but could involve some kind of guidance as well. One particular romantic scene came to me almost instantly and wholly complete . . . very weird. It was a romantic conversation involving two people of differing races and opposite sides of conflict.
As to your possible interest as a reader, the violence issue must be addressed: This series is historical fiction carrying with it the violence of earlier eras in desolate or frontier locations. Within these volumes such matters are realistically and logically played out. Nothing is ‘Hollywoodized’; and events and characters are based on everyday lifelike existences by ordinary people like you or I. That was and is my watchword as an author. The characters within this story are neither desperados nor legendary lawmen; they’re just ‘folks’. Due to the threats of the era and the persons’ situations, two characters push the limits of aggression over the course of the series and question themselves for it. These stories are not simple Hollywood-like action tales, but the logical dangers of the historical times are there.
To further inform, the following, slightly hyped text is the standard promotional advertisement currently being used online. If it does not interest you, that’s fine. Otherwise contact me. If you so choose, the volume that is set in the Philippines (vol. 5), like each of the others, can be read alone; however, obviously, much is lost in character growth, especially that of Sunny.
Spanning from Civil War Virginia to Asian jungles during the Filipino American War in the Philippine Islands in 1902.
The Historical series SUNNY OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST provides within its pages . . . American family values, Christian faith, sacrifice and courage to immeasurable degrees, cross cultural love and marriage, cultural and racial conflicts . . . and deals with the problems of wars of conquest, subjugation of native peoples, imperialism's pluses and flaws . . . and contains some American History you probably did not know . . .
THEMES of daring forbidden love, coming of age education, human trafficking, military duty, bravery, and abuses, and of undaunted human courage and sacrifice . . . a new kind of American story
*[My primary political position.] The basic issue with the founders (and me) was their knowledge that power once given always grows to the point where it is too big and strong. Certain sociopolitical principles are as inviolable as the laws of physics, including among others: 1. the natural, uncontrollable growth of power, 2. that weapons can never be banned to the point of disarming criminals who naturally disobey the law, and 3. when seconds count in your state of safety, the police will arrive in minutes. They cannot come until a crime is in progress and they are called.