50% Sale on ebooks of LIVE FROM JAPAN!

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July Sale on LIVE FROM JAPAN ebooks!

Why write a book?

I write to entertain, and make people happy. 

It appears that I’ve hit the mark with the readers of LIVE FROM JAPAN!

“LIVE FROM JAPAN is a lovely book in many ways. The spirit of the book is to encourage community between John Rachel’s adopted country and his birth country and the book itself invites, entertains, nourishes and charms, supporting that end.” – Amazon Review April 26, 2021

“An expats perspective which sheds light on the unique and quirky aspects of Japanese country life. Highlights include anecdotal descriptions of the great care taken in daily rituals, food customs, and the courtesy extended to people and place.” – Amazon Review May 15, 2021

“John’s perceptions reminded me of my mixture of awe and puzzlement over Japanese ways and how each generation has distinctive formative influences.” – Amazon Review March 15, 2021

LIVE FROM JAPAN!

Now available at 50% off as a Kindle or EPUB ebook (Nookbook, Apple iBook, Kobo Reader, etc.)

Buy it now for only $4.99 at . . .

Smashwords

Coming (We Hope) in August!

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Love Connection, Social Commentary

We’re trying to get this ready for release this June.  There are so many issues related to supply chains, the pandemic, and pervasive chaos in the world.  But we’ll do our best.  Initial reactions have been outstanding!  Here’s in part what one reader of an advance copy had to say:

“The subtitle of the book is Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun. The setting of much of the activity does center, with reverent attention, on the detail of life in Japan, Osaka, especially, but includes a surprising, and amazing lightning tour of Paris, Morocco, and several major cities of Western Africa. More than setting only, there is a rhythm and music to John Rachel’s language that allows the reader to believe that he/she is experiencing a translated version of these characters’ thoughts and language straight from Japanese.”

Please be patient.  We think it’ll be worth the wait.

Holiday eBook Blowout Sale!

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Special!

50%-75% off list price … sale goes

from December 17 – January 1!

Every one of John Rachel’s books will 

be discounted at Smashwords,

a premier ebook website.   

This is a great opportunity!

Just choose the book you’re interested in by clicking 

on the appropriate link below. Smashwords will 

let you choose the ebook format you prefer.

IT’S THAT EASY! GO FOR IT!

Petrocelli @ 50% off.

Live From Japan @ 75% off.

Blinders Keepers @ 75% off.

Sex, Lies & Coffee Beans @ 50% off.

The Man Who Loved Too Much Book 1 @ 75% off.

The Man Who Loved Too Much Book 2 @ 75% off.

The Man Who Loved Too Much Book 3 @ 75% off.

11 – 11 – 11 @ 75% off.

12 – 12 – 12 @ 75% off.

An Unlikely Truth @ 75% off.

The Peace Dividend @ 75% off.

Candidate Contracts @ 75% off.

Fighting For The Democracy We Deserve @ 75% off.

JOHN RACHEL’S AUTHOR BIO

Special Kindle Sale! THE MAN WHO LOVED TOO MUCH

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Humor, Special!, The Man Who Loved Too Much

Only 99¢ each from Amazon!

Through the holidays, Kindle ebooks for The Man Who Loved Too Much trilogy are on sale.  

People love this book!

5-star reviews at Amazon (US) 

The Billy Green saga . . . a complicated, joyful, twisted, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always unpredictable journey. Billy is growing up and more determined than ever to find meaning in life and comfort in love. He’s discovering what it really means to be an adult.  Surely, no one said it would be pretty. He certainly had ample fair warning, growing up in Detroit. But nothing ever prepares us for some things.Like a shattering loss of innocence.

Book 1 from Amazon (Kindle)

Book 2 from Amazon (Kindle)

Book 3 from Amazon (Kindle)

Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Love Connection, Social Commentary

COMING SPRING 2022!

Are you ready?

Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun is unlike any love story you’ve ever read before. Set in Japan and East Africa, it is based on real events.

Arriving this coming spring. ARCs will be available in February 2022. Pre-orders will begin in April.

This is from the Author’s Closing Personal Comment at the end of the book:

As a society, the Japanese people may be the most honest in the world. There are legendary stories of individuals forgetting their wallets, handbags, computers, shopping bags, leaving them in plain sight in highly-trafficked public places. They return hours later and their valuables are right where the left them. Or have been turned into the police, everything still there, even credit cards and cash. We expect of others what we see in ourselves. Meaning, Japanese trust others because they themselves can be trusted. The problem is that this level of integrity can backfire when confronting others who are not so morally sound. It can be extremely destructive at every level when manipulated to personal advantage by individuals who are cunning, ruthless, sociopathic.

Oh my! So many questions!

Published on by johnrachel Category: Humor, Live From Japan!, Social Commentary

How many times have you asked yourself? . . .

Do Japanese eat sushi for breakfast?

Is there a difference between Japanese sake and turpentine?

Do modern-day geishas play electric guitar?

There are more answers than questions. So . . .

Just say ‘NO’ to boredom, ignorance & xenophobia!

IT’S EASY! LIVE FROM JAPAN! will take good care of you.

I promise!

The Kindle version is available HERE.
An Apple iBOOK is available HERE.
A B&N Nook Book is available HERE.
Other popular ebook formats are available HERE.
A deluxe paperback is available from Amazon HERE.
A deluxe full-color paperback is available from B&N HERE.
A deluxe full-color paperback is available from the printer HERE.

Have fun reading it! I sure had fun writing it.

Japanese LIVE FROM JAPAN! at Tsutaya

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Live From Japan!

For those of you not living in Japan, let me explain that Tsutaya is the biggest retail distributor of books, games, and videos in this nation.

Today I got some good news! Tsutaya here in town will be stocking the Japanese version of my book. If it goes well, the sky is the limit . . . at least the sky over the Land of the Rising Sun.

Several of my Japanese friends have reported that the book is fun to read and funny. My Japanese is too rudimentary for me to know. I was certainly hoping that my humor would translate across the language and cultural barriers.

The Japanese version is not yet available online anywhere. For those of you who speak and read English, opportunities abound!

An Apple iBOOK is available HERE.

A B&N Nook Book is available HERE.

Other popular ebook formats are available HERE.

A deluxe paperback is available from Amazon HERE.

A deluxe full-color paperback is available from B&N HERE.

A deluxe full-color paperback is available from the printer HERE.

LIVE FROM JAPAN! Arriving soon in Japanese!

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Creative Non-Fiction, Live From Japan!

We’ve received an approval copy of LIVE FROM JAPAN! in Japanese and it looks great! The translation will be available in fine bookstores across Japan by end of summer.

And please don’t forget!

For a limited time, Live From Japan (in English) is on sale at Amazon in the US, more than 33% off the list price.

Deluxe paperback only $14.50 . . . click HERE.

Kindle ebook only $6.65 . . . click HERE.

As author John Rachel says: “It’s like living in a fairy tale!”

Enjoy his eye-opening, inspiring adventure from the comfort of your own reading chair.

LIVE FROM JAPAN! … 34% Off at Amazon USA

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Live From Japan!, Special!

For a limited time, Live From Japan is marked down at Amazon in the US, a full 34% off the list price.

Saving money is a beautiful thing!

Deluxe paperback only $15.00 . . . click HERE.

Kindle ebook only $6.65 . . . click HERE.

This splendid collection of 63 anecdotes, a large-format, full-color edition which includes over 500 photos, has been getting a lot of love!

You can check out some of the reviews . . . HERE!

Author John Rachel says living in Japan is like living in a fairy tale. This is your chance to personally experience this very exciting, very enriching adventure.

Petrocelli ebooks on sale for $2.99!

Published on by johnrachel Category: Books, Petrocelli, Special!

For the next month, all Petrocelli ebooks will be on sale for only $2.99!

Petrocelli has been judged one of the most intense true crime thrillers ever written. It’s not for the timid or squeamish.

It was 2005 and the streets of Brooklyn were crawling with a new crop of absolutely stunning young sex workers from Southeast Asia.

Everybody was up in arms! The local police, area churches, everyday people who didn’t want the neighborhood their kids used for play and school turned into open-air brothels.

Lenny Petrocelli had always been a slacker, a mediocre low-life, getting by on his good looks and street smarts. Suddenly he found himself in over his head. He had slowly been maneuvered by his gangland bosses into a central role in their web of child prostitution and human trafficking. Now he was being set up as the fall guy to take the rap, if the inhumane but lucrative enterprise went down.

If this gritty novel rings true, it’s for good reason. Petrocelli is based on actual stories from a violent and gruesome under-world, where millions of children and adolescents across the globe are held in bondage as slaves.

As a Kindle ebook from Amazon (US)
As a deluxe paperback from Amazon (US)
As a Kindle ebook from Amazon (Canada)
As a Nook Book from Barnes & Noble
As an iBook from the Apple Store
As an ebook from Scribd
As an ebook from Kobo (US)
Your choice of ebook formats at Smashwords 
As a deluxe paperback direct from the printer