Ask the Author: P.J. Kelley
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P.J. Kelley
The Wind in The Willows world. I think about that book a lot. It's this beautiful, mystical place through which a group of loyal and supportive friends navigate.
P.J. Kelley
"I'll see you in your nightmares", the cold tarantula woman said, but I knew she would be in my daydreams too. My daydreams are almost as horrid as my nightmares, if that even seems possible.
P.J. Kelley
Not really having a list. I read whatever I make it through the first paragraph of. Mainly non-fiction at this point. I read all day at work. All I really want to know more about and understand is why so many pyramids are laid out in the pattern of constellations, but all anyone has is theories about that.
P.J. Kelley
This is a great question, and I have given it some thought. The exact answer would be to separate the specific dream of writing from all other dreams. That is, if I said my dream would be to get rich from writing and buy a rocket car, this would be inaccurate. In this case, my dream would be to buy a rocket car. Writing would be secondary.
As a writer, after some thought, I specifically would like to accomplish what Moliere accomplished for me when I was a boy and read "The Misanthrope" about fifty times. That sprightly wit and unchained use of language is what has inspired me through life. I am not kidding, I have been riffing on that play in my mind ever since.
Thank you for a thought provoking question, because once I answered it, the next question would be why I am not trying to write it? It has taken some guts, but I have started to pursue my dream. I think I am ready to try it, after a couple of prose novels.
As a writer, after some thought, I specifically would like to accomplish what Moliere accomplished for me when I was a boy and read "The Misanthrope" about fifty times. That sprightly wit and unchained use of language is what has inspired me through life. I am not kidding, I have been riffing on that play in my mind ever since.
Thank you for a thought provoking question, because once I answered it, the next question would be why I am not trying to write it? It has taken some guts, but I have started to pursue my dream. I think I am ready to try it, after a couple of prose novels.
P.J. Kelley
Hi Laurel,
More than ever. It's a fascinating topic. Now that my eyes have been opened about the whole thing, I see a lot more references to it than I had noticed before.
I'll publish it on my blog, giving you full credit of course, or just read it and give you some feedback if you would rather not have it put online. I think people would enjoy it, and I know I would.
Thanks so much,
P.J. Kelley
More than ever. It's a fascinating topic. Now that my eyes have been opened about the whole thing, I see a lot more references to it than I had noticed before.
I'll publish it on my blog, giving you full credit of course, or just read it and give you some feedback if you would rather not have it put online. I think people would enjoy it, and I know I would.
Thanks so much,
P.J. Kelley
P.J. Kelley
Please do. It's an unexplored topic in many ways. How many people know Rihanna is part Irish, or if they did, would they know why?
P.J. Kelley
Hi Alexandar,
Thanks for asking.
I'm finishing up a short story that grew into a short novel. It's hard to classify as a genre, but the crux of it revolves around our relationship to God. A new element is discovered which allows people to decrease the flow of time in the center of an Alcubierre Wave the element can be used to create. This enables the formation of what is essentially an alternate universe, in which people are forced to confront the problem of Eternal Life.
The story takes place about eighty years into the future. The United States no longer exists, and has been consolidated into a region call Pan-America, which encompasses South, Central, and North America. Crime, designer drug abuse, and poverty are rampant.
The people are forced to live in Agenda 21 designated urban sprawls which have replaced individual cities. The largest such city, called Polyurbania, ranges from what used to be Boston to what used to be Baltimore.
The Drexlers, a family of four, are holdouts in a slum in the last remnant of Hell's Kitchen, a neighborhood of Polyurbania in what used to be designated as New York City. They live in a war zone of conflicting gangs and crooked cops colluding to control the vast black market in illegal cigarettes.
The only option for escape is to become a Space Pilgrim. The discovery of an asteroid belt with a rare new element called “neutrinium”, which is the heaviest element ever discovered, has ignited the growth of the space industry even as the Earth’s economy crumbles.
A race of genetically modified human beings with just enough non-human D.N.A. to be legally used as slaves has been created for mining the asteroids for neutrinium. One of the G.M.O. people, a super intelligent slave nicknamed Simon Sez, has devised of way of weaponizing an isotope of neutrinium to create a massive Alcubierre Tsunami, which he plans on using to destroy the solar system and propel himself into an alternate universe.
The Drexlers, finally trying to emigrate to Space, are thrown into this universe along with Simon Sez. There, they are forced to face the problem of Eternity, as Time slows down to almost nothing, and the family is confronted with the terrifying prospect of Eternal Life, with no escape from either each other or themselves.
One motif I have for my books is to try to couch serious issues in a comic book style, similar to Robert E, Howard’s. This way, a person who might not be interested in a book about politics, history, science, philosophy, or any “serious” topic, might read my books and get some exposure to some things they might ordinarily be uninterested in. The books deals with some Freemasonic, Mormon, and other belief systems concept of people attaining god-head status, or evolving into gods, and generally gets a bit heavy and tedious in places. Hopefully, the story line itself takes a couple of prisoners.
The idea of making a lasting impression on someone is compelling, and books have an entertainment value which can be a social good. Also, I have a scheme for creating a portfolio of books and becoming a publisher of sorts. My ulterior motives for this idea are pretty much run of the mill.
Books have helped me. Where my direct connection to other human beings had been sketchy at times, every time I opened up 'The Hobbit', for instance, the only thing that changed was my own perspective. Reading 'War and Peace' when I was young taught me to organize my thoughts. I believe in books.
Thanks for asking.
I'm finishing up a short story that grew into a short novel. It's hard to classify as a genre, but the crux of it revolves around our relationship to God. A new element is discovered which allows people to decrease the flow of time in the center of an Alcubierre Wave the element can be used to create. This enables the formation of what is essentially an alternate universe, in which people are forced to confront the problem of Eternal Life.
The story takes place about eighty years into the future. The United States no longer exists, and has been consolidated into a region call Pan-America, which encompasses South, Central, and North America. Crime, designer drug abuse, and poverty are rampant.
The people are forced to live in Agenda 21 designated urban sprawls which have replaced individual cities. The largest such city, called Polyurbania, ranges from what used to be Boston to what used to be Baltimore.
The Drexlers, a family of four, are holdouts in a slum in the last remnant of Hell's Kitchen, a neighborhood of Polyurbania in what used to be designated as New York City. They live in a war zone of conflicting gangs and crooked cops colluding to control the vast black market in illegal cigarettes.
The only option for escape is to become a Space Pilgrim. The discovery of an asteroid belt with a rare new element called “neutrinium”, which is the heaviest element ever discovered, has ignited the growth of the space industry even as the Earth’s economy crumbles.
A race of genetically modified human beings with just enough non-human D.N.A. to be legally used as slaves has been created for mining the asteroids for neutrinium. One of the G.M.O. people, a super intelligent slave nicknamed Simon Sez, has devised of way of weaponizing an isotope of neutrinium to create a massive Alcubierre Tsunami, which he plans on using to destroy the solar system and propel himself into an alternate universe.
The Drexlers, finally trying to emigrate to Space, are thrown into this universe along with Simon Sez. There, they are forced to face the problem of Eternity, as Time slows down to almost nothing, and the family is confronted with the terrifying prospect of Eternal Life, with no escape from either each other or themselves.
One motif I have for my books is to try to couch serious issues in a comic book style, similar to Robert E, Howard’s. This way, a person who might not be interested in a book about politics, history, science, philosophy, or any “serious” topic, might read my books and get some exposure to some things they might ordinarily be uninterested in. The books deals with some Freemasonic, Mormon, and other belief systems concept of people attaining god-head status, or evolving into gods, and generally gets a bit heavy and tedious in places. Hopefully, the story line itself takes a couple of prisoners.
The idea of making a lasting impression on someone is compelling, and books have an entertainment value which can be a social good. Also, I have a scheme for creating a portfolio of books and becoming a publisher of sorts. My ulterior motives for this idea are pretty much run of the mill.
Books have helped me. Where my direct connection to other human beings had been sketchy at times, every time I opened up 'The Hobbit', for instance, the only thing that changed was my own perspective. Reading 'War and Peace' when I was young taught me to organize my thoughts. I believe in books.
P.J. Kelley
I am working on a book, in starts and stops. The idea for it came from a couple of different sources. One was a comic book I read when I was kid called "Superman Versus Muhammed Ali". Another was OUTLIERS,a book about how seemingly unrelated events can be analyzed statistically to show patterns.
I have no strict timetable for this book, but I do want to complete it by December. Having said that, it could be done in a week, and is in fact basically done. I want to finish it so I can resume work on another book, which I stopped working on because I promised myself I would never write a sex scene, but the plot demands it. Also, I wanted to consider the book for awhile. It's a vampire book, which seems like a calculated way to break into the popular vampire market, which it started out as but I tapped into a lot of personal feelings I had about religion and Irish slaves in the 16th Century in The West Indies. In short, I am proceeding with caution with the vampire book, which I plan on completing after my impending science fiction book.
I have no strict timetable for this book, but I do want to complete it by December. Having said that, it could be done in a week, and is in fact basically done. I want to finish it so I can resume work on another book, which I stopped working on because I promised myself I would never write a sex scene, but the plot demands it. Also, I wanted to consider the book for awhile. It's a vampire book, which seems like a calculated way to break into the popular vampire market, which it started out as but I tapped into a lot of personal feelings I had about religion and Irish slaves in the 16th Century in The West Indies. In short, I am proceeding with caution with the vampire book, which I plan on completing after my impending science fiction book.
P.J. Kelley
The act of writing, completing, and publishing a book taught me what it takes to do this. It also gave me a little bit of confidence in my ability to see a project through to the end. Of course, there is some therapeutic value as well, which should not be discounted.
The most gratifying aspect, as reader myself, is when people read the book and come away with the catharsis I was trying to create. It is a way to communicate with other. Even if they read the whole book and don't like the message, they still have read the whole book. My dream is to have some positive impact on society by getting people to put on the glasses and see the world through the lenses of The Zombie World Order.
The most gratifying aspect, as reader myself, is when people read the book and come away with the catharsis I was trying to create. It is a way to communicate with other. Even if they read the whole book and don't like the message, they still have read the whole book. My dream is to have some positive impact on society by getting people to put on the glasses and see the world through the lenses of The Zombie World Order.
P.J. Kelley
While I cannot always write, I can always edit.
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