My blogs are found on the Slow Bullets page.
Since leaving America August 2006, I have traveled to sixteen countries. A great deal has happened. I have written three full-length novels, had over thirty short stories and seven poems published, and even composed several songs. In my travels I have experienced quite a lot and had a few ideas along the way. This site is to share my thoughts, photos, music, writings, travel experiences, and developing political/social commentary with you. I hope you find it interesting and informative.
THIRD-PERSON BIO
John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter and music producer, a left-of-left liberal, and looks somewhat younger than he is. Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend university, the development his social skills and world view were arrested at about age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work.
While living in Japan in 2008, he wrote his first novel, From Thailand With Love. Then in November of 2009, he completed his second novel, The Man Who Loved Too Much. It was written over ten months, as he lived in and traveled through Japan, China, Nepal, India and Thailand.
While writing his recently completed 11-11-11, he lived in Japan and Vietnam. 11-11-11 is the prequel to his next novel 12-12-12. The two are linked by characters and location. Together they constitute an eye-opening and mildly amusing journey into the heart of American ignorance, as they track the insular lives of sub-ordinary people in the fictional town of Pulnick, located in northeastern Missouri. The clueless and basically powerless citizens of Pulnick find it nearly impossible to eke out a meaningful existence in a world plagued by stupidity, superstition, gossip, political manipulation, and other increasingly disturbing manifestations of human folly, including paranoid rumors about the end of the world. Does this sound familiar?
As he works on 12-12-12 and prepares for the publication and promotion of 11-11-11, the author is bouncing between South Korea, Vietnam and Japan.
The guy just can’t seem to settle down. His last permanent residence was Portland, Oregon where he had a state-of-the-art ProTools recording studio, music production house, radio promotion and music publishing company. During his ten years in Portland, he professionally recorded and produced many artists in the Pacific Northwest, releasing and promoting their music on radio across the U. S. of A.
