Current Title:
"Harmonics"
A thrilling novel of life in a rock band playing for tourists on a cruise ship - to Mars. Outrageous events of unexpected terror unfolds as the band faces the music, which has a life-changing quality, especially on little hairy creatures that claim the Red Planet as their homeland!
Showcase Author
John D Wolf
When Will It All Stop?
As a child, alchemy was my cup of tea. I learned to make gunpowder from a Gilbert Chemistry set and the world was mine. At July 4th celebrations in our neighborhood, Jack's multicolored, 30 foot, fountain of fire and sparks was always a hit. As laws were passed to limit such activity, I found outlets in a make-shift photography darkroom, rock collecting, and honking out tunes on a saxophone. I don't know why sports or hunting or other manly activities didn't appeal to me. I loved the outdoors. I spend a lot of time walking the wooded land around Ruidoso, New Mexico, shooting arrows into dead trees a half-mile away across a canyon, building model rockets, and Roman catapults. Most people learned to keep their distance as I found ways to reach out further in range.
I never paid attentions to authority. I found rules hard to understand. That's probably why my parents sent me to a military school. Go figure - send a kid to study military tactics that loves to blow things up. Their idea was to channel my energy into a controlled educational process. They did that, but they also recognized that this kid can play a sax. This led to never having a date for dances, because I had to play in the dance band. They were all formal affairs and I felt cheated. You can see where this is leading - a career in writing grounded in dramatic pathos.
Chemistry became old hat. I was dazzled by electronic things. I graduated to face the Vietnam War. I sang the folk songs of equality and unrestrained freedoms. I never saw the point in blowing up jungles, defoliating forests, and displacing millions of people so the French could get their rubber plantations back. But, as fate would have it, I spent 15 month's navigating C-130s through the skies of Southeast Asia, then four years as an instructor at the AF Nav school, and a tour in a command center in Japan - all great experiences for the wannabe writer that emerged from my subconscious thirty years later.
Now, after retiring from a career in the military and a career in engineering, I embark on a career - actually another expensive hobby - of writing. When will it ever stop?
John's website is a trifecta of creative arts: Click Here
John (aka Jack) Wolf grew up, well some say that hasn't happened yet, in
the backwoods of New Mexico - make that the high desert plains. Altitude
affects the mind, and at 3,600 ft. John was oxygen deprived. This led to
developing anxiety and emotional instability, which is a quality
that would later be useful to his musical and writing endeavors. One walks
stooped over in New Mexico, afraid of scrapping your head on the sky. The
colors, the clean air, the quiet, all make for identifying with the 60s.
John played saxophone as a youth, then became a folk singer, then much later
in life, tried his hand at writing. It's all about being creative. The "real
world" molded
these talents into an engineer. John is no stranger to electric shock, mild
explosions, and the occasional fusing of mechanical parts taken beyond reasonable
limits. Now retired, the industry thanks him, he writes to keep the demons
away.
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