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My name is Gregory St. John Taylor, and I am known for my variety of work, my production of varied subject matter as well as offering multiple literature types. I specialize in stories woven through actual history, for instance the five volumes of the novel 22Tango, novellas such as Save Stalin as well as Altoona On. I enjoy writing plays, particularly 3-acts that I publish as treatment-level works for potential use as bases for movies. Creating books of short stories, books of poetry, non-fiction and alternative pieces provide great joy and happiness, because experimentation is a delight. I hope you enjoy the selections you review and purchase. Each piece below, produced under my own cover, Classical Doorway, has abundant description and explanation, and you will be able to visit the websites offering my work for sale. Thank you for coming here.
Gregory St. John Taylor, professional writer, editor and illustrator since 1972; artist since 1966
Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania Academy of (the) Fine Arts
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Welcome
Website of my current publisher:
DUO Publications & Documentation R&D
of West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA,
visit www.duospecialties.com
For any inquiries or to propose a business arrangement,
please contact my personal representative
Liz Taylor at duopubs@aol.com
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EVERY WORK I PRODUCE HAS A DEDICATED COVER PERSONALLY DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY ME
(SEE 3 SAMPLES BELOW)
Last Update: June 17, 2010
This is a "live" website and is continually updated as my works are completed and introduced.
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All represented works are number consecutively regardless of document type, i.e., novel, short story, play, etc.
▼ Novels (7) ▼
(novel stories of 50,000 words and over)
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- individual volumes on Amazon.com - Kindle™
DUO control no. Volume 1 of 5: 402002vol1-5 (123,957 words) on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $5.99
DUO control no. Volume 2 of 5: 402002vol2-5 (112,831 words) on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $5.99
DUO control no. Volume 3 of 5: 402002vol3-5 (107,291 words) on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $5.99
DUO control no. Volume 4 of 5: 402002vol4-5 (92,391 words) on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $5.99
DUO control no. Volume 5 of 5: 402002vol5-5 (93,351 words) on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $5.99
- Quickly Bay - historical humor; poignant novel pertaining to people involved with a unique frigate Feenicks from the early 1700s to the late 1700s; historical voyage from England to America; (62,726 words) DUO control number: 402005 on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $3.49
- sexual humor and content
The Compromise of Zapeth - science fiction; pertaining to our world and others like us; involves the "secret language" both we and the other animals of Earth know intrinsically. However, this language is being manipulated by a unique corporation, Chrone Industries, run by someone not necessarily of this planet; (107,672 words) DUO control number: 402008 on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $4.99
▼ Novellas (4) ▼
(novel stories of fewer than 50,000 words but more than 30,000)
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- Altoona On - romance; in the late Victorian age; includes some international intrigue and cross-continental, interesting characters; begins in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA, and ends in Altoona; (42,382 words) DUO control number: 402010 on Amazon.com - Kindle™ for $3.49
▼ 3-act Plays (2) ▼
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These complete 3-act plays, which I thoroughly enjoy writing, are offered as "treatment" level works, so those of you who are screenwriters, directors, actors and other professionals involved in the production of movies can review a "base" multi-act play from which to establish your own levels of creativity and presentation. Therefore, there are very few directions and no camera angles, no lighting views or other distractions. These plays are fundamental, simple and direct and are also designed to provide an entertaining product for those of you, like me, enjoy reading plays, because they provide a fine sequence of events on which to develop your own "images."
▼ Books of Plays (1) ▼
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1. GLITTER
mixed bag of general plays = 4
total illustrations = 4
DUO control number: 402115
▼ Books of Poetry (1) ▼
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▼ Books of Short Stories (3) ▼
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Each of these short story books includes a cover for each story within. As I write stories,
I add them to the appropriate series and assign a DUO control number.
1. THE GALLOPING COW
mixed bag of general short stories = 13
total words in book = 39,710
total illustrations = 13
DUO control number: 402063
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The Galloping Cow - fun alternative piece; do cows run, and if they do, why, and what happens when they do? (1,554 words) DUO control number: 402021
- 2 Cheffies and a Steak - human interest; humorous; twin brothers redefine their relationship over a steak ;(1,800 words) DUO control number: 402022
- The Implicit Design - human interest; humor; can there be the happiest man in the world? (4,042 words) DUO control number: 402023
- Journey to Orchamps - philosophical piece; involves a father a son and a journey; (1,476 words) DUO control number: 402024
- Tractor Love - human interest and love; without relativity; (2,065 words) DUO control number: 402026
- The Cleaning of Elias Pluggage - a bit of the ridiculae; for fun; (555 words) DUO control number: 402027
- - humor; what happened to the money, who switched the suitcases, and who is Captain Ezekial Swoopy? (8,578 words) DUO control number: 402043
2. ELLITOE'S EGG
science fiction short stories =
8total number of words in book = 40,023
total illustrations =
8DUO control number:
402064on Amazon.com - Kindle™ at $3.99
- - science fiction; giving birth in space may not be a good idea in this instance, but then again, it might be worth the consequences; (4,008 words) DUO control number: 402033
- - science fiction adventure; involving a staged race to determine what is done with a specific material that grows on the noses of huge ocean creatures and is harvested by using a fast ship with a special operator; (9,828 words) DUO control number: 402034
- - science fiction; can a starship become a mother? (4,463 words) DUO control number: 402038
- - science fiction; involving a dedicated emissary sent to Earth with a warning; too little too late... maybe; (3,074 words) DUO control number: 402039
3. CATTLE CAR BAR
mixed bag of fiction short stories = 9
total number of words in book = 39,970
total illustrations = 9
DUO control number: 402065
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- The Closed Door, 1943 - WWII intrigue; a group of influential people get together on a Flower-class corvette warship to shorten the war and journey to a South Sea island complex; (4,551 words) DUO control number: 402046
- human interest; dilemma; is there life after life as we know it, or is there? (1,244 words) DUO control number: 402053
The Warriors Beneath the Sea - human interest; WWI German submarine crewman returns home; proposed in a unique manner; (3,966 words) DUO control number: 402048
- humor; love affair, young knight in Philadelphia suburbs pursues love in 2004; large cast of characters; (3,167 words) DUO control number: 402044
A Thumb in a Brown Suit - humor; contemporary situation; plot: carpooling can be dangerous if in the right hands; (4,813 words) DUO control number: 402045
- hypothetical; intrigue and human interest; story of the unknown officer who was Hitler's foil and friend; this man, referred to only as "The Major" provides much insight into Hitler and his times; humorous in places, poignant in others (11,785 words) DUO control number: 402049
▼ Non-fiction Works (2) ▼
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▼ Current Works in Progress (3) ▼
Mickey's Gator
- adventure novel with romantic overtones that provides aspects of the Pacific portion of World War II while its sister novel, 22Tango provides the view from the European Theater of Operations; involves an agent, a male Daniel Gaiter Monahan, also known as "Gator" one quarter Irish, one quarter English and one half Filipino; also involves a fellow agent, a female Genda Miki, better known as Mickey Genda of Java, who is one half Japanese and one half Indonesian from Bali; both agents travel in danger to Freemantle as the Japanese work their war efforts south with devastating effect. Gator and Mickey link up in Brisbane, Australia in 1943 and become agents for humanity and end up working in General Douglas McArthur's intelligence service but only for a short time: for one critical mission (currently 59,325 words) DUO control number: 402057
The Cottages of Loveladies - a novel with an alternative, unique format and design. Each of 40 cottages, resident on a South Pacific Island called Loveladies Island, communicate with each other, have personalities and are quite proud and vocal about it. They each provide you with a terse explanation of themselves and convey some of the elements of human inhabitants who have lived in them. Each portion, pertaining to each cottage has an illustration (depiction) that provides you with an idea of their appearance. There is a colorful map of Loveladies Island, and a depiction of the Shoppolis Island Group in which Loveladies lies comfortable and expressive. (currently 14,364 words; 18 out of 40 cottages done) DUO control number: 402056
The Trial of Sir Staccato Feniman - a complete 3-act play for you who enjoy reading plays and for those of you who would like to "build" a screenplay and resulting movie on a "treatment-level" play, one devoid of distracting directions and camera angles. This amusing play takes place in the days of old when there were kings and queens who openly lorded over their people. In this case, a "gentleman" and a "lady" were accused of sexual improprieties deep in the bowels of the a castle. This is the resulting trial in which sex and religion are on trial as well as the two defendants, as it were. This is a fun piece designed for total enjoyment and a few laughs. Does it have a happy ending? Read and see. (currently 2 acts completed and waiting for the 3rd.) DUO control number: 402015
▼ Current Works in Planning and Research (6) ▼
The Humorist's Guide to Seriousness - a tongue-in-cheek treatise on seriousness done in a fun manner designed to entertain and inform in a way that makes seriousness more palatable to those of you tired of taking seriousness seriously. A treatise is defined as a "formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject" by Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, and I agree. DUO control number: 402116
The Empress of Cadiz Series - the first of a book series involving the ancient society of the Empress of Cadiz, descending directly from an Atlantean family who survived the destruction of the continent and continue to battle, in subtle and active ways, to "save the population from the misguided ways of the royals of Atlantis." This family, representing good, comes from the lands of the Atlantic that did not sink with the island and wound their way through the various indigenous nations and societies to offset the standard of the errant ones, who represent bad. They continue to implement their Atlantean style of population management even to this day. It began back then and continues today, but this story, which begins with The Kings Without provides an new and interesting approach to history beginning in the time of the Cro-Magnon, threads through the period from around 10,000 BC, awakens in around 8,000 BC and flows through the world of Kings, Societies, Nations to the rigors of today.
OTHERS TO FOLLOW IN 2010
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▼ My Other Websites (2) ▼
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Consider the EGG. Have a little fun with my egg facts and egg fancies
This website provides you with a few laughs and a basic education on the egg.
I have designed an entire character line for the Eggheads, and they will be featured
in an illustrated work of the same title. It will be fun, and the site is ready.
DUO CONTROL NUMBER: 402060
DUO CONTROL NUMBER: 402061
Listen to an assortment of digital music pieces I created.
These are "built" from snipets like those offered by Ejay.
Eventually, there will be around 60 songs to enjoy.
How about a bit of entertainment from some of my friends?
Click on CD cover for a sample of music by Ray Beran, Caryn Lin and Terry McGrath
ALSO: JUST FOR FUN....
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to play a great humorous song from Pat Cooksey
performed by the Corries.
This totally entertaining piece is entitled "The Bricklayer's Lament."
My webguy: Michael B. Kovacic
Microsoft Professional, MCSA, MCSE, MSCE instructor,
Delaware County Community College (DCCC);
help desk technician, friend and son-in-law
All cover art and icon art designed and produced by me, Gregory St. John Taylor
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