12-12-12
by John Rachel
Price: $6.99 USD. 126840 words.
Published by Melange Books, LLC N Schumacher on March 18, 2012. Fiction.
Welcome to the parallel universe of 12-12-12. This not what actually happened during 2012. But what unfolds is not more implausible. Nor is it less implausible. It is reality with healthy doses of surreality and comedy, spawned by the tragic absurdity of our times. It is laugh-out-loud brain food for hungry minds.
Location: Japan
Member Since: Dec. 05, 2009
John Rachel
Biography
John D Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter and music producer, a left-of-left liberal, and looks somewhat younger than he is.
Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend university, the development his social skills and world view were arrested at about age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work.
While writing "From Thailand With Love", he was living in Spain, Italy, Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, and Japan. He effectively was homeless but having a great time of it.
His last permanent residence was Portland, Oregon where he had a state-of-the-art recording studio, music production house, and publishing company. He recorded and produced several artists in the Pacific Northwest, releasing and promoting their music on radio across the United States.
In November of 2009, he completed his second novel, The Man Who Loved Too Much, written over ten months, as he lived in and traveled through Japan, China, Nepal, and India. It is mildly autobiographical.
His next two novels, titled 11-11-11 and 12-12-12, are linked by characters and location. They constitute an eye-opening and mildly amusing, if nauseating journey into the heart of American ignorance, as they track the insular lives of sub-ordinary people in a fictional town located in northeastern Missouri. The clueless and basically powerless citizens of Pulnick find it nearly impossible to eke out a meaningful existence in a world plagued by stupidity, superstition, political manipulation, and other increasingly dangerous manifestations of human folly, including the latest paranoid rumors about the end of the world.
As he completes these latest novels and the numerous short stories he always has in the works, the author is hopping around between Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan. The guy just can't seem to settle down.
Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend university, the development his social skills and world view were arrested at about age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work.
While writing "From Thailand With Love", he was living in Spain, Italy, Uganda, Kenya, Thailand, and Japan. He effectively was homeless but having a great time of it.
His last permanent residence was Portland, Oregon where he had a state-of-the-art recording studio, music production house, and publishing company. He recorded and produced several artists in the Pacific Northwest, releasing and promoting their music on radio across the United States.
In November of 2009, he completed his second novel, The Man Who Loved Too Much, written over ten months, as he lived in and traveled through Japan, China, Nepal, and India. It is mildly autobiographical.
His next two novels, titled 11-11-11 and 12-12-12, are linked by characters and location. They constitute an eye-opening and mildly amusing, if nauseating journey into the heart of American ignorance, as they track the insular lives of sub-ordinary people in a fictional town located in northeastern Missouri. The clueless and basically powerless citizens of Pulnick find it nearly impossible to eke out a meaningful existence in a world plagued by stupidity, superstition, political manipulation, and other increasingly dangerous manifestations of human folly, including the latest paranoid rumors about the end of the world.
As he completes these latest novels and the numerous short stories he always has in the works, the author is hopping around between Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan. The guy just can't seem to settle down.
Where to find John Rachel online
Website: http://jdrachel.com
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MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/jdrachel
Blog: http://jdrachel.com/slow-bullets/
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Where to buy in print
Books
11-11-11
by John Rachel
Price: $6.99 USD. 84660 words. Published by Melange Books, LLC N Schumacher on May 6, 2011. Fiction.
Welcome to an alternate reality. "11-11-11" manages to tell it like it is by telling it like it isn't. This not what actually happened during 2011. But what unfolds is not more implausible. Nor is it less implausible. Dark, ironic, witty, at times surrealistic, 11-11-11 is satire that is both sad and funny and rings very true.
Price: $6.99 USD. 84660 words. Published by Melange Books, LLC N Schumacher on May 6, 2011. Fiction.
Welcome to an alternate reality. "11-11-11" manages to tell it like it is by telling it like it isn't. This not what actually happened during 2011. But what unfolds is not more implausible. Nor is it less implausible. Dark, ironic, witty, at times surrealistic, 11-11-11 is satire that is both sad and funny and rings very true.
From Thailand With Love
by John Rachel
Price: $4.99 USD. 148510 words. Published on December 22, 2009. Fiction.
"From Thailand With Love" is a hard-hitting, street-tough novel about the trafficking of adolescent Asian girls for prostitution in the U. S. It is violent and sexy, endearing and sad, sometimes humorous and often gut-wrenching. The book offers thought-provoking commentary on a wide range of issues: global economics, modern media, child labor, and the moral price of affluence.
Price: $4.99 USD. 148510 words. Published on December 22, 2009. Fiction.
"From Thailand With Love" is a hard-hitting, street-tough novel about the trafficking of adolescent Asian girls for prostitution in the U. S. It is violent and sexy, endearing and sad, sometimes humorous and often gut-wrenching. The book offers thought-provoking commentary on a wide range of issues: global economics, modern media, child labor, and the moral price of affluence.
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