John Waaser

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John Waaser is the editor in chief, the guy who makes our stuff look so good, and the owner of Crossroads Publishing. (He is open to editing work for other writers, but he is not cheap!) Educated at Mount Hermon School for Boys and Motheaten University, he is the brains around here. He has owned a computer store and several other businesses, and he currently lives in a crappy double-wide mobile home on a little over three acres, down south, where he moved after he got scared driving 18-wheelers and two-wheelers over snow and ice for too many years. But hey, at least it is paid for! He currently drives an Isuzu Hombre pickup truck, and has a Dodge Stratus, which he insists is the best car he ever owned, with a Datsun 1100 Sport Coupe and an MGA Twin Cam Roadster also dear to his heart though no longer in his possession. He has a Ninja 250, he still has a 1974 Ducati 750 Sport that he bought new, with 2200 original miles on it, but life in storage has not been good to that bike. His collection also includes an old Honda CB-77 Super Hawk, and a Yamaha RD350C that has been converted to a cafe racer, with Factory (brand) pipes.That bike will lift the front wheel while you are still heeled over in a turn, if you get on the gas in second gear. Riding on one side of one tire can be exhilarating! He had a professional color photographic lab in his home, where he turned out up to 400 8 x 10 color prints in a single week, back in the day. He currently has a pretty good collection of old film cameras (including a black Nikon F, brand new in the box, (but the dealer sold the Photomic finder off of it, and substituted a Pentaprism finder instead), but uses his HTC desire 816 and his Windows phone and his 4G LTE Galaxy Tab S 8.4" tablet along with an Olympus E-PL1 camera with two lenses. His computers include an H-P Elite Book 2560P which came from Joy systems as a refurb, and he has a Dual-Xeon Server. He is currently getting together a bank of images for stock photo sales. He has Siamese cats, the male named King, and the female named Anna. He used to have a Shep/Black Lab cross named Blackie, whom he loved a lot, back in the day, and would consider another lab or lab mix if one came along. He has several sheds full of memorabilia, though most of his old negatives are all gone, along with the collection he once had of all of his published work including as Assistant Editor of Cycle New East, and Eastern US Contributing Editor of "Cycle World" Magazine when it was owned by a division of CBS, Inc. He is working on getting some solar energy going, and currently uses a generator for most of his electricity.He has close to 50 blueberry plants and some raised beds for veggies. He gets his green thumb from his Uncle Gordon, who was the President of the American Dahlia Society back in 1940. He is working on the first part of a series of books to comprise a photography course, and will do some books over time on gardening, alternative energy, and other how-to subjects.

Smashwords Interview

When did you first start writing?
I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper suggesting that since police were complaining that kids were drag racing on the streets, they should hold organized drag races at a little-used local airport. Several of my classmates mentioned it in their autographs in my prep school yearbook. I went to Mount Hermon School for Boys, where I had to write a 300-word theme every week in sophomore English class, and a 500-word theme every week in my senior year. Still, I learned more English grammar in French and Spanish classes! I wrote a few articles for that same newspaper by 1960, and by 1961 I submitted my first photos to "Cycle Sport" magazine, and shortly after that, I submitted my first photos to "Cycle World," a fledgling new national motorcycle magazine. They responded that they could not run the photos without an article, so I typed up an article and they bought it. I have been writing ever since.
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Where to find John Waaser online

Website: http://cpubfl.com
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Where to buy in print

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LGBT Erotic Paranormal Romance Boxed Set Tigers, Panthers and Werewolves
Price: $5.47 USD. Words: 37,580. Language: English. Published: February 26, 2017 by John Waaser. Categories: Fiction » Erotica » Gay, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
The Tigers series is about a man who went on a vacation to a woodland resort in Thailand, and consists of three books about his tryst with a handsome man. The Billionaire Panther series consists of two books, Oliver picks up a bartender, and they go back to Oliver's place, In the Werewolf series, a single book is about the Alpha, in a chat room, enticing Nick to come into the woods for a romp.
LGBT Erotic Paranormal Romance Watching My Alpha (Bear Shifter Series Book 2)
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,760. Language: English. Published: April 6, 2017 by John Waaser. Categories: Fiction » Erotica » Gay, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Bruce seemed to be getting angry with Peter, and Andy did not know why. Bruce was not happy that Peter was spending so much time with Andy, and ignoring the pack, and seeming to undermine Bruce's authority. Bruce ordered them both to take off their clothes, after which Bruce raped Peter first, and then Andy. Then Andy and Peter had something akin to makeup sex.
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Books

Photographic Composition: Because a Technically Perfect Photograph Without Good Composition Is Of No Interest To Anyone
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 19,970. Language: English. Published: October 1, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Photography - how to
John felt that it was more important to teach people how to take GOOD pictures, before teaching them the technical intricacies of photography. So this book talks about subject placement, background, foreground, color, separation from the background, location of the subject within the photograph, and other topics which are important to ensure that the photo simply looks good.
Building Confidence: How to Act Like You Know You Can Do This!
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,690. Language: English. Published: June 16, 2017 . Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Mental health, Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Confidence & self-esteem
This is the book that tells you how you can go through life with confidence. The six chapters detail what you must do to change your way of thinking so that instead of stumbling through life, you will find doors opening for you everywhere.
Treating Fatigue: Using Essential Oils, Herbal Teas and Supplements to Battle Fatigue, and Increase Energy
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,550. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Alternative therapies
A look at chronic fatigue, and how you can fight it, using Essential Oils, Herbs, Teas, and Supplements.
Memory Improvement: Easy Ways to Quickly and Naturally Improve Learning, Studying, Reading, and Retention
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,010. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Alternative therapies
This book is full of ways to improve your memory and recall ability, including diet, supplements, and exercise. Great for older people, and people who just can't seem to remember things readily.
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Smashwords book reviews by John Waaser

  • Hypnotizing My Straight Roommate (For Gay Sex) on March 11, 2017

    A very quick read, nice concept, and reasonably well-written. A couple of errors a good editor would catch, but you can't really expect a 99-cent book to have been professionally edited. KY is referred to as coming in a bottle, but unless it is a more specific product from the same company, KY jelly comes in a tube. And there are a couple of references to things being "one in the same," when it should be one AND the same, and a couple of similar errors. And the author seems to have a fetish for never using the same word twice to refer to the same body part--which makes this somewhat of a writing tool--a thesaurus, if you will, for other writers of erotica. Very well worth the price of admission.
  • Memoirs of a Sex Addict on March 15, 2017

    This book seems to have been dictated into a computer, and never checked to be sure that the words on the page were the words she intended to say. There are adjectives used as verbs, and wrong words abound, like "when" when she meant "went." The book badly needs an editor. Misused gerunds all over the place, sentence fragments, and other problems abound. The story line is not so bad, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.
  • T-Shirt Entrepreneur on April 16, 2018

    Save your money. This book tells you mostly rudimentary stuff you already know. And it is so full of grammatical errors it is insulting to read! I learned nothing of any value here. It even expects you to print your own shirts, which is not what I had in mind at all!