The first book in my AL CLARK Series is currently FREE. As I learn more about promoting books on a budget, trying different tactics and ways to promote seems to be inevitable. It appears exposure to new readers is a key facet to success. If I can get people to read book one, they usually purchase other books in the series.
All my books have four stars or better on Amazon. Goodreads reviews are similar.
Another experiment in marketing I am trying is to make Al Clark, along with all my books, available on most popular retail book distributors.
When I don’t have it in me to write – I draw. It keeps the old brain focused. I call this a Super Doodle. Incorporating all the different elements into the drawing was fun, although taxing. My Sakura Micron pens allowed me to blend at least 26 unique components into the piece, with some areas that are three dimensional. To tell the truth, I’m pleased with the end result.
How many scenes, objects, and creatures can you locate?
Christopher’s Journal (Prequel to The Al Clark Series)
Christopher is alone, and trapped in the habitat ring of an aged colonial starship. He doesn’t know if the rest of the colonists are sleeping or dead. He is unsure what to do. This scenario was not covered at the Spacer’s Academy.
This is another drawing from his journal that documents his predicament. To help maintain his sanity he must find ways to stay busy and kill time. Drawing not only kills time, it helps him stay sane.
Looking for a book to take you out of this world and place you into another? Look no further.
Jim Thompson is currently divorced, broke, and homeless.
One year ago he lived a comfortable life, with twenty-five years married to a woman he loved, twenty-three years at a job he did not hate, and a country home he built for retirement.
He is now fifty-four years old, lives in his truck, showers occasionally at a cheap gym, and eats the bargain meals at fast food places-if he is lucky. Unknown to him, his luck is about to change drastically.
Jim is being watched and evaluated for participation in a crucial mission; a dangerous assignment originating on someone else’s world – with the capability of destroying ours.
I like using ink to express the ideas in my mind. I draw what I picture in my head as I develop a story. The drawing I’ve included is a crucial part of Daniel Shaw’s story.
This is what was in my head when Daniel was being pursued by a mechanical dog through a forest he only minutes ago was dropped into. This hidden door will save him, and it is through this portal his destiny awaits.
Last year – he turned fifty-three. He was happily married, had a job he didn’t hate, and owned a home he built with retirement in mind.
This year – he turned fifty-four, and is divorced, unemployed, and homeless.
In the span of one year his life has changed so dramatically he believes luck has abandoned him. Jim is beginning to wonder if his period of misfortune will ever improve – until, while dumpster diving, he meets Vincent, an unlikely visitor from another world with an incredible story and a critical mission.
Join Jim as he discovers what really matters in life, and if he can be the bigger man the alien so desperately requires.
I’ve often said, when espying an injustice that was so outrageously displayed that no one could miss it, as being beyond the pale. The pale within a fence became an area of land within a boundary such as a county, and then to areas within Ireland that were held by the British. As these became […]
My journey in writing began at 59 years old, when I began educating myself about formatting, pacing, common spelling errors, and humility. The result was the creation of my first draft. After a lot of editing, multiple rewrites, and many sleepless nights, I published my first book, ‘Al Clark.’ Over the next four years that first book was revised three times.
The original Al Clark has now grown into a five book series with a short story prequel. In addition, I’ve published two standalones called ‘Vincent.’ and ‘A Curious Orb.’
Patience and persistence truly are virtues in the writing world.
Al Clark-Asteroid, the fifth installment of my Al Clark Series is now available on most major digital sites. This new book was a year in the making and different than the others. For one thing, I didn’t have to kill anyone off. There are some close calls of course, but nobody dies. In the same tradition as the other books in the series, it is good old-fashioned science fiction. Other than Al and Robot Nine it has a totally new cast of characters, new exciting locations, and unexpected villians. It is part of a series but can be read as a stand-alone.
There is a dark and desolate asteroid far out in our solar sysem, hiding among a multitude of orbiting frozen rocks, with a large hatch leading inside. Waiting patiently in the bowels of this abandoned black planetoid is a discovery with the potential to revolutionize space travel.
When Al and his intrepid crew received a questionable tip concerning a mineral rich prospect begging to be exploited, they undertook the long trip to investigate. Upon arrival they suffer a space explorer’s biggest nightmare. Through no fault of their own their ship crashes, stranding them with limited supplies and resources.
Their first and highest priority is to survive. The second priority is to repair their ship well enough to leave and complete the rebuilding at the nearest shipyard.
The crash cripples their ship, and the odds are stacked against them. They will need to utilize every resource to escape – including the treasure contained deep in the asteroid.
Can they make use of the discovery concealed inside this unremarkable black asteroid?
Science fiction has been one of my favorite genres since first discovering H.G. Wells and Jules Vern in grade school. Jonathan Meyer has captured a style reminiscent of those early science fiction writers woven into the modern age. Much of what was science fiction over a century ago is now reality but there is still much futuristic technology that an imaginative author can introduce. This author has found just such technology. Though the idea of miniaturization is not new it has not been a big part of the science fiction I’ve read in my lifetime. Artificially intelligent space ships have been around for decades. Where some authors give AI a tendency toward darker purposes Meyer does not. The independent nature and directed purpose of Vincent presents the Star Ship as a personality with pure and benevolent intentions. The earth is at risk from a device from another world. Vincent recruits a homeless man, who in turn recruits a museum guide for a mission to save Earth. Before their mission is complete a refugee joins their team. I really enjoyed the plot and the characters behaved in a way that may or may not be expected, depending on how you think you’d react to finding a miniaturized space ship then being taken into it. I loved the descriptions of activities of the main character while he was miniaturized. Imagine trying to scale stairs when you’re the size of a mouse. Great read. If it were a movie it would be PG or PG-13. I could recommend it to both young and old science fiction fans. Not too technical, yet believable. Available in eBook, Paperback and Audio. Happy Reading! Grandma Peachy
I am thrilled with this review from Maria Clara Pimentel. Readers like her are the reason I write.
I am a Portuguese 72 years old and I have just discovered your books, beginning with Al Clark series. I became hooked since the first one. It is really old fashioned good (very good) science fiction.From the litterary point of view, it´s 4,5 in 5. From the point of view of imagination is 5/5. And it shows a very advanced social thinking, an universal and open mind frame. I detected one single mistake: at the end of book one, you put the captain organizing a thanksgiving celebration. You forgot that that is a celebration belonging only to the US and their History. And, as the colonists have been recruited all over the Earth, you should either have imagined an all new celebration or specified thanksgiving should celebrate, from then on, the settlement on Avalon. As for all the rest, your mindframe is absolutely open, universal, advanced. And you write pretty well. One of my daughters is a Portuguese and English teacher and I will tell her to introduce your books to students of the school. Congratulations!
Jonathan G. Meyer 