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Joseph Philbrook

Biography

I'm a reader. I've always preferred reading a good book, to watching the movie. I spent most of my adult life, working at one unfulfilling job or another. While I dreamed of writing books instead. Lately I've decided to start living the dream.

Smashwords Interview

Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Well the first story I can remember was never published. I called it "The Power". It was about a young boy, a camp fire and the boy's mentor, who had an unusual ability to affect the flow of time. It was also about how much effort, a kind hearted man was willing to invest in the happiness of the small boy, who just wanted his mentor to be proud of him.
What is your writing process?
I probably make things harder for myself than I need to. Or at least that's what it would seem like to most people. I generally compose using a document processor called LyX. Which keeps me from accidentally fat fingering extra spaces between the words, and a few other similar things. LyX tries to let me focus on what I'm writing rather than on how to format it. It also lets me easily define larger than output screen fonts. So that I don't need to wear my reading glasses.
As I write, I also keep browser tabs open to a couple of on-line dictionaries. Which I often use to find just the right word or phrase.
Once I'm happy with the book, I extract a plain text version of it, which I paste into a 'blank' LibreOffice document, which has all the pre-defined paragraph styles I need to replicate the way it all looked in LyX.
I try to follow Mark Coker's 'Smaswords Style Guide' as I apply those paragraph styles, and save the result as the "Word doc" that I'll need if I'm going to upload it to Smashword's meat grinder. Then I read the resulting file several times, as I try to spot and fix my mistakes. When I stop finding typos, I think about publishing the results.
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Series

Symbionts by
An adult themed sci-fi series about the effects certain symbiotic relationships have on humans. These relationships run the gamut between nanosymbionts who's nanites defend and enhance their host human, extending his or her life to the point of near immortality. To the relationships between aggressively symbiotic daggerthorn plants that were genetically engineered to protect the humans they bond with. These sentient, telepathic plants extend the lives of their humans by converting it's deadly defensive poisons into life extending medicines. While warning of hidden dangers via the dreams of those who sleep within it's embrace. The second book in the series begins the story of the symbionce between humans and daggerthorn plants and how a certain nanosymbiont experiments with advanced genetic engineering to save the life of a mortally wounded human by blending his DNA with a customized subset of daggerthorn DNA. This new hybridized human, dubbed a biosymbiont by the renegade who ‘saved’ him, must learn how to keep his new body alive. While living within the embrace of the massive daggerthorn super clusters that protect two very different and very promiscuous, low tech human cultures.
NanoSymbionts
Price: Free!
Biosymbionce
Price: $1.99 USD.
Biosymbionce 2 XenDar
Price: $1.99 USD.
Biosymbionce 3 The Children
Price: $1.99 USD.

Books

Biosymbionce 3 The Children by
Series: Symbionts. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 321,380. Language: English. Published: December 17, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Tom's beloved children inherited DNA from the symbiotic daggerthorn plants that Tom's body was infused with. They developed faster than anybody expected. Which led to problems requiring unusual solutions. To protect their developing telepathic minds from his own darkness, Tom had to let go of a deeply rooted hatred. Then when a new enemy abducts the twins, Tom risks everything to get them back.
NanoSymbionts by
Series: Symbionts. Price: Free! Words: 238,730. Language: English. Published: September 27, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Fantasy » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
Jake Peterson is on a treacherous mountain road with poor visibility. A man suddenly falls into the road in front of him. Jake swerves and crashes. When he comes to he is alarmed to learn that to save his life the stranger infused him with nanites. Which come with strange abilities and huge problems. As he tries to remain human he learns the galaxy's fate may depend on his embracing his nanites.
Biosymbionce 2 XenDar by
Series: Symbionts. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 193,930. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
(5.00 from 1 review)
The biosymbiont, Tom is haunted by reoccurring dreams of a world he's never been to. They are the result of other people's memories having been implanted in his brain. Then Tom, along with his pledged adept, go to the strange forest world of XenDar. Where the daggerthorn plants they bring with them may be the answer to a strange disease that's beginning to decimate it's forests.
Biosymbionce by
Series: Symbionts. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 228,690. Language: English. Published: December 31, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
(5.00 from 1 review)
An ageing off the grid hacker is mutilated in a tubeway accident because he tried to save a stranger who turned out to be a renegade genius. Who declined to let him die. And who turns to genetic engineering to regrow his body using DNA from an aggressive sentient symbiotic plant. After his painful awakening he finds himself among a primitive promiscuous people, on a dangerous planet named Gudjeon.

Joseph Philbrook's tag cloud

adult themed    alternative lifestyle and culture    alternative lifestyles    biological nightmare    cannibalistic army    elite desert wariors    parasitic mind control    primitive cultures    science fantacy    space fantasy    symbiotic relationships    symbiotic relationships with sentiant plants    techno magic wizardry   

Joseph Philbrook's favorite authors on Smashwords

R. David Philbrook
Latest book: Antibiosis.
Published June 11, 2021.
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Smashwords book reviews by Joseph Philbrook

  • The Adventures of Aleena and Elliss: Book 1, The Protectorate Manipulation on June 21, 2020

    How can I explain it... It took a few pages to get used to the author's style. But even before I got used to that, I noticed that the story was imaginative, interesting, and rather addictive.. it was late and I was tired when I opened the book with my epub reader. I thought Id read a couple chapters and go to bed. WRONG! I more or less fell asleep at the computer sometime after 6am. When I woke I found that my epub reader was on the last page. But I wasn't ready for the book to end. I want more of it. Turns out there is a book two planned. All I can say is that as soon as that happens, I plan to devour that one too. A great read!
  • The Little Prince and the Gargoyle on July 11, 2020

    An interesting short children's story that seams to teach the lesson that sometimes bad people are bad because they've done bad things. And sometimes even they have a sense of honor and don't really want to be bad. As an adult this story seemed a little too simple and way too short but was none the less enjoyable. If I had a young child, I'd want them to read it, or to have me read it to them.