COEXIST with TOLERANCE
Embrace SIMILARITIES
and Respect DIFFERENCES
COEXIST with TOLERANCE
Embrace SIMILARITIES
and Respect DIFFERENCES
Find 'Out Here in the Stars on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and e-book.
"An intense roller-coaster of emotions that demands to be read." -- EDWARD SWIFT, author of Splendora
This memoir was as much a page-turner as any I've ever read! A beautifully rendered love story, whose timing could not be better, given our current cultural climate of prejudice and bigotry. I found this story to be as uplifting as it was heartbreaking. -- Alex Richards 3.2.22
New book! "Out Queer in the Stars" A bawdy intergalactic fairy tale, can be read on Kindle Vella
Both books have been reedited with additional text and can be obtained in HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK, and eBOOK versions. And OHITS has a new cover!
Thank you again for your significant support and encouragement. While it has only been three years since these books were originally published, each software has evolved offering new challenges.
No one does anything like this alone and YOU need to know how greatly appreciated YOU are!
SYNOPSIS: One of two gay male actors, surviving an epidemic that is ravaging their community, living as an HIV-negative, monogamous couple on NYC’s Upper West Side, and planning their future, has a seizure in the back seat of a cab, is hit with a fatal diagnosis and dies one month before their fifteenth anniversary.
The arcs of these two people unite: One lost in the post-war struggles of the Midwest, the other on the more Ivy League East Coast; both needing to follow their art, forming a circle that gets smaller and tighter, as they struggle unsuccessfully toward inevitable loss.
But in that loss, surprising positive things are found.
Delve into this personal black hole of medical minutia culminating in the death of one gay man in NYC – unrelated to the raging AIDS pandemic – while his partner survives to recognize that some wonderful things can and do exist within that darkness.
Witty, wise, and wonderfully raw, you will find this book’s integrity difficult to match. The irony and absurdities of achieving dreams, growing older and learning to let go covers a roller-coaster of emotions.
J L Homan’s second book serves to augment the narrative of the author’s protagonist in ’Out Here in the Stars A Memoir of Love, Loss & Learning to Let Go. Five chapters pulled from that first book, plus additional short stories and personal essays, offer insights into this gay man’s life, with which you may or may not agree but which you will find difficult to dismiss.
RAWD contains many examples of effective crossovers between these three stylistic modes: Journalistic/ Sociological; Autobiography/Historic; Portrait/Scenic. The mix is seamless – the narration is lucid, vivid, and completely effective. The moments where the three elements blend are among the best of the book, which is both fascinating and rewarding.
Using Erikson’s stages of development as a structure gives the collection a sense of unity and becomes the book’s theme at its heart. Erikson not only develop the eight stages, but also eight Existential Questions, one for each step.
With the word "Reverie" in its title, the collection allows connections and associations to migrate, dreamlike, between narrative layers among the stories and essays of the collection, in an attempt to possibly answer those questions.
a bawdy, intergalactic, gay fairy tale/romance/satire, to be found episodically under the VELLA option on KDP.Amazon.com website.
(First 3 of 8 chapters are FREE!)
Dear “Frieders,” (Friends and Readers)
I am writing to let you know that I have begun a third effort, which is being made available for reading in a unique way on Kindle. At this point in time, I am not sure the material is a novel, a short story, a fairy tale, or the 21st Century’s equivalent of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” – which would then, of course, require both a composer and lyricist.
Kindle Vella is a service, not a product. Kindle Vella is a platform that authors use to share their stories with readers in an episodic style. It is a new way to read serialized stories into short episodes that can go with breaks in your day, allowing readers to consume content one episode at a time.
The first three episodes of each story are free to the reader and presents a communicative format between the author and the reader. If you like what you read and choose to continue reading, then you can purchase tokens to follow each new entry into the narrative. New entries could come daily, weekly, monthly – depending on the author. (I’ve scheduled new chapters for the next eight weeks.)
Roughly, one minimally-priced (~<$0.01) token is worth 100 words; so a 600-word chapter will require about six tokens; however, the price of a token varies by how many you buy.
The more tokens you purchase in one transaction, the cheaper each individual one is, with several bundles you can choose from. The prices are all in US dollars, since that's the only currency accepted currently. This is considerably cheaper than ordering a Kindle download.
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Out Queer in the Stars … a Bawdy Intergalactic Fairy Tale” is a subjective fiction satire, which I began during the pandemic and hope you will enjoy a few giggles. It is currently only eight chapters in length and less than 15,000 words.
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Eight international human astronauts, plus one robot (Mic Kanic), existing on various spectrums of physical, mental, psychological, medical, gender, as well as puritanical morality norms, are on a mission to find alternative locations for possible human habitation. They land on Genitalia, a small planet in the little-known Sub-Solar System, which has environmental conditions similar to those on Earth.
While size is universally respected, similarities and differences exist.
Populated by an unusual species of exceptional beauties who are ruled by the Ian Dynasty and worship their only deity, Lord Richard (that’s long for Dick), the Genitalians find their visitors curiously similar in appearance, but unbelievably provincial in attitudes that require immediately adjustment. As personal barriers are examined, analyzed and resolved, intrapsychic walls crumble and surprising choices are made by the humans as they begin to respect the differences and embrace the similarities of Genitalian life.
Leaving Mic Kanic, along with his Genitalian love ‘bot, Saffo Fell-8TO, to return their spacecraft. The two become Intergalactic Emperor and Empress of a new species, referred to as Affected Artificial Aliens (A3s), that have taken over life on the tiny blue planet formerly known as Earth.
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Kindle Vella stories can be found by going to the Discover page in the Kindle app on iOS devices, or by going to the Store tab on the Kindle app, the Android and/or Fire devices, and tapping the Kindle Vella link. Another way to connect is by visiting the Kindle Vella store at http://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella.
One year following the completion of this Vella showing, Kindle will professionally publish the resulting book, making it available in hardcover, paperback, etc.
Should you find this of interest, please let me know what you think.
Thank you always for your kind support.
PS: My editor at AM Ink Publishing, emailed two weeks ago that Out Here in the Stars … a Memoir is in the “editing process.” How long that will take, I know not. Nor can he estimate a release date. Having signed on March 3, 2022, I was hoping the new edition would be available for this holiday season but there is no way of assuring that is a possibility.
