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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WRITING HEY! I’m talking real writing, which means recording whatever interests the writer in any written, enduring format. It’s the first step towards authoring, which means writing for a target audience rather than oneself. I’ve been a writer, author and poet for over four decades, and it’s only recently, when I was given the opportunity of being the lead actor in The STATIC Movie (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie) that I began to realize just ...Continue reading

VIOLENCE AND SEX EVERY author has to, at some time, master writing about violence and sex, two archetypal experiences intrinsic to and representative of human life at any age and time. By this I truly mean writing about rather than writing explicit gratuitous violence or sex. It’s the difference between the emotional experience of a soldier being wounded, and a detailed account of every gory detail as the bullet rips through his or her body. The same with sex. I can vividly...Continue reading

THE PISSANT AND THE PISMIRE RUSH to your nearest bookshelf dictionary, or if you prefer, online one, but you’ll still have to guess a bit to ascertain what today’s post is about. HINT: It’s about how global citizens sometimes feel in today’s dis-integrated world. Think insignificant and another cog in a massive, complex, karmic wheel, as if there is nothing an individual can do anymore that, as Rick says in the classic movie Casablanca, amounts to a hill of beans. But diffe...rences come in many sizes and flavors. Sometimes the most important differences occur in a single person’s sudden mood shift, or in the wake of a new aha! moment, or a momentary expansion of one’s weltanschuuang or individual world point-of-view. A positive change, an inspiration or a sudden, more diverse point-of-view can, and occasionally does actually change the world. As an author, it’s easy to fall into wondering if anyone has really read any of my books and really taken in the messages, or whether I’m fooling myself into thinking I’m an author when I’m still just a writer journaling for myself at heart. The same with acting, or any humanity one takes on in life for that matter. But if it’s positive change that’s at the heart of the matter, then one thing I have to constantly remind myself is that in the authoring, acting, dancing, singing, photographing, videoing, painting, sculpting there is always a difference from simply having done it. And often that difference alone that will ultimately result in a positive difference, individually or globally, simply through the act of bringing it into existence. Pissant and Pismire? Forget it. Get back to bringing that idea, story, dance, song or image into existence, and let it grow and mature in the world in its own way at its own pace. Call it a form of parenting if you like, and pat yourself on the back for having done it. For contributing your small piece of eternity to humankinds’ long march. Then let what’s been created go to unfold, trusting it will make a positive difference somewhere, somehow, sometime, and in doing such, it will contribute positively to the universal karmic wheel that in its own way, grinds, refines and slowly advances our species. And think, if you will, of my newly released book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor (https://savant-bookstore-honolulu.square.site//the-edg/136 or https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859), or my role as the crotchety Will Gardner, struggling with the ravages of Alzheimer’s Disease, in the upcoming, made-for-television movie, The STATIC Movie (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie), as doing just that. #RaymondGaynor #TheEdgeOfMadness #DanielSJanik #book #ebook #audiobook #TheStaticMovie #static #Casablanca #positive #change #karma #evolution #humanities #acting #singing #dancing #painting #Savant #Aignos #television #KSimmonsProductions

DANCING ON A HOT TIN ROOF SAY good-bye to those Norse Hell Polar Vortex days and hello towellour new hot-as-hell summer. It’ll soon to be hot enough to: fry an egg on the hood of a car; burn a lizard’s feet; happily take a dust bath on the savannah; make trees run for shade; make you feel like you’re forever blushing; not feel your fingertips burn when you pick up a copy of THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Hot, hot, hot! And no end in sight! ...Almost as hot as my first screen kiss! Yes, last weekend, playing character Will Gardner with lead actress Jerri Lynne End in the bedroom scene of The STATIC Movie (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie), I tried my first one with lots of coaching. It’s quite unnatural given a tightly interposing camera with it’s own visual perspective. Did you know there are actually six or nine-week courses on how to kiss on screen? I didn’t until now. When authoring, it’s all about word choice, but when acting, it’s a very complex combination of lines, breaths, facial actions, emotions, feelings, imagination and, of course, what in the end looks best (and most natural, whether friend-to-friend or erotically igniting) on the silver screen. Our screen kiss is something in-between, very nostalgic. All this without actually being intimate. Whew! Hot, hot, hot! And, again, no end in sight! We’ll be reshooting the scene this coming Sunday. Will I be even better and more authentic this second time? Acting is already helping me write better. There’s no question in my mind that experience, in any form, is key to bettering both acting and authoring. Whichever, it’s having had the broadest life experience that makes a screen or literary character seem authentic. At least, that’s my take on it at this ever evolving time. So, if you would like to experience real screen or literary authenticity check out The STATIC Movie or grab a copy of my Amazon Genre Bestseller: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 Just released as an Amazon Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions. #RaymondGaynor #TheEdgeOfMadness #dance #book #ebook #audiobook #PolarVortex #heatwave #screenkiss #movie #filming #actor #author #writer #TheSTATICMovie #romance #kiss #love LGBTQ #experience #authentic #authenticity #PeterPollock #KSimmonsProductions #SilverScreen #Savant #Aignos

COOKIES AND COOKIE MONSTERS! HAVE you noticed the suddenly never ending number of sites that require or at best state that if you go on, you will be auto-cookified? It’s, of course, a choice, but one that is carefully constructed to NOT be a choice by clever cookie monsters all over the world. Or, hey, let's call them what they really are: stalkers! In my newly released, Amazon-genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, a sci-fu (plausible, sc...ience-based future study), there are, sadly, no more cookies. No stalkers. No Big Brother or Brave New World. Instead, Enforcers, like white blood cells, roam the streets silently offering help wherever help is needed. Rather like Waikiki Honolulu Police Officers. And help they do, in often interesting ways given they have local, community, regional, state, national, international, Terran and Solar System wide resources to tap immediately at their fingertips. No more police that look like soldiers. Enforcers: a menacing name for combination 911-receptionist, social worker, health care worker, psychologist, somatic therapist, police officer, taxi driver personal assistant and friend. And a good thing, too, given that Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese left off, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live. Put on your monomolecular flack, shimmer suit, Eugitor (if you have one), grab a vial of contra-spray, a pair of candy shades and prepare for a T-rip like never before, all within the prevue of the local Enforcers. No more pornography or stalking! Hedonistic public exhibitions SweetSixteenSalsaSexcapades however, welcome, regular or LGBTQ+ flavor. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 Purchased by K. Simmons Productions for manga, animation and cinematic treatments. #RaymondGaynor #TheEdgeOfMadness #book #ebook #audiobook #manga #animation #movie #cookies #stalking #hedonistic #public #exhibitionism #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SciFu #FutureStudies #future #BigBrother #BraveNewWorld #TotalMeltdown #WilliamMaltese #LGBTQ #erotic #love #romance #thriller #novel #ComingOfAge #Savant #KSimmonsProductions #Savant #Aignos #Amazon #bestseller

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN OKAY, admittedly I’m now having trouble deciding whether I’m an author or an actor, both being foremost in my mind these days. THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor (one of my several pen names) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096H5QMHP became an audiobook Amazon Genre Bestseller last week, and yesterday received honorable mention recognition as a wildcard entry in the San Francisco Book Festival. Already purchased for manga, animation ...and cinematic treatment. QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes with Raymond Gaynor audiobook is in final audiobook production and is expected to be released anytime soon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01I24M3IM. My latest and maybe greatest poem is scheduled to appear in Pua La’a Kea 2021 Savant Poetry Anthology to be released hopefully in the next couple weeks. Busy, busy, busy. The STATIC Movie is rapidly progressing https://youtu.be/E07uqo3dCec with final filming of the two-million dollar house scene scheduled for this Saturday, clearing the 2/3 complete mark, proceeding to practice, rehearsal, blocking and filming of the third major on-location portion at Lunalilo Home probably next week. Actor interviews, an official trailer and more PR to come very soon. More busy, busy, busy. Want to be part of The STATIC Movie? Visit https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie and consider a donation to help us get the word out about the movie and Alzheimer’s Disease. So, which is it? Author or actor? Right this moment, I’m focused on memorizing new lines for this Saturday’s shoot, but Sunday, I’m planning a full day’s rest with time reserved for continuing Prophecy, the sequel to THE EDGE OF MADNESS. Already have a publisher interested and a possible movie option in the wings. Check in daily for progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CCCIrQGs #RaymondGaynor #DanielSJanik #TheEdgeOfMadness #book #ebook #audiobook #movie #manga #animation #AGHayes #QuantumDeath #TheSTATICMovie #KSimmonsProductions #Alzheimers #Prophecy #Savant #Aignos #bestseller #LGBTQ #romance #love #erotic #sexual #future #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SciFu #poetry #poet

PROFESSIONALISM I’M not infrequently asked what makes one a professional author, dancer or, more recently actor/actress. Actually, the answer is quite easy, but it has several different yet intertwined aspects: First, there’s the business of whatever it is one is doing. A professional is someone who accepts money or other financial remuneration for what they’re doing. It’s not about how much. It can be $0.01 or the equivalent in barter or trade. The moment one accepts money... or other remuneration, one changes from a writer, amateur or volunteer to an author or professional. Second, there’s the inherent meaning. A professional anything dedicates his or her life to perfection in a particular area of expertise, being the very best that one is capable of everywhere along the way. Discipline. Third, there’s attitude. A professional helps others to become the very best of which they’re capable. Initially, this translates to being careful with hubris, striving instead for honesty, transparency and humility. That soon develops into a sense of internal joy in sharing what one has learned, experienced and acquired along the way. Ultimately, it blossoms into cooperation and service over competition and sales; a realization that the greatest reward for professionalism has nothing to do with the illusions of money and power, but with a richer spiritual connection to everyone and everything about us. Spiritualism (a sense of place within a Higher Power) verses Religion (a social club run like a business surrounding a theme). The very best authoring, dancing and acting comes from this final connection. It elevates what one is doing to a spiritual plane. Better than sex, I often hear, and have to agree, though in agreeing I mean to elevate the professional pursuit rather than denigrate love, affection, eroticism or sex. It took many years of authoring before I was in the spiritual place from which came THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, resulted in my own gooseflesh when dancing, and the elation of a perfect filming that even I enjoy viewing and reviewing. THE EDGE OF MADNESS in book, eBook and audiobook format at https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859. Daniel S. Janik and Setsuko Tsuchiya Ballroom and Latin Dance Competition/Performance Sampler at https://youtu.be/ync4vCUxEoc The STATIC Movie by K. Simmons Productions currently in production at https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie. https://i.postimg.cc/6Q156yVV/Author-Dancer-Will.jpg Author, Dancer, and Actor (as Will Gardner in The STATIC Movie) #RaymondGaynor #DanielSJanik #WillGardner #author #dancer #actor #actress #writer #professional #book #ebook #audiobook #movie #filming #business #money #power #dedication #discipline #honesty #transparency #humility #service #spirituality #religion #ballroom #Latin #TheSTATICMovie #KSimmonsProductions #Savant #Aignos

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM AS the author of THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor TEOM I’m often asked what PRIMARY genre this Amazon Genre BESTSELLER should best be listed as. What should be an easy question is, if not complex, at least deserving of a post. I list it on social media as a work of Sci-Fu (Science-based Futuring) rather than Sci-Fi (science fiction) or Sci-Fan (science fantasy). TEOM is based on current technologies and social concepts which are si...mply projected into the future. SO, it isn’t science FICTION (it’s not entirely fictitious), and it’s not science FANTASY (as it’s an extension of current science). On the other hand, there exists a field of academic study called Future Studies which TEOM would logically fit, but there is no such genre. Ergo, Sci-Fu or Science-based Futuring. I’m curious if other writers of science-based works might be inclined to agree or disagree with me over this. I’m looking forward to comments regarding this post. In a broader sense, TEOM, as it is based on current social concepts and mores, might equally be called an adventure, mystery, romance, love, erotic or LGBTQ+ work. And yetnone of these would qualify as a PRIMARY genre, but rather a secondary or supportive genre. In essence, this is what a more comprehensive Future Study would be like. So what to say about THE EDGE OF MADNESS? I think the best I can say is, Try it; you might like it. And if this particular extension of contemporary science and social mores isn’t to your liking, well, you’ve looked into the mirror of a future that you can, with foreknowledge, act against. In future studies, there is no utopia or dystopia. Only that privileged peek into a totally plausible future that, if left to itself, could indeed come to be. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 THE EDGE OF MADNESS is available from Amazon in printed, ebook and audiobook formats; TEOM has been purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions. #RaymondGaynor #TheEdgeOfMadness #book #ebook #audiobook #manga #animation #movie #genre #ScienceFiction #SciFi #ScienceFantasy #SciFan #ScienceBasedFuturing #FutureStudies #futuring #SciFu #romance #adventure #mystery #love #erotic #LGBTQ #Savant #Aignos #KSimmonsProductions

THE BEAR IN THE LION’S DEN TIMES have changed. It’s no longer a sheep or a Daniel thrown into the world of finance’s lion’s den of yesteryear. It’s a bear these days, though in two opposite meanings. First, a bear willing to slice, thrash and carve out it’s own piece of the financial lion’s den, but second, a transitory bear in the sense of a bear rather than a bull market. It’s commando-style business that makes the millionaires these days. And that seems to be increasingly ...Continue reading

THE NEWEST RAGE: FAKE SERVICE IT started with fake-news, then progressed to fake-products and has now evolved into fake service. You know what I mean. Make a customer service call and experience the fake firsthand: difficulties finding a phone number to talk with a real person, especially of one’s primary language; complex, irrational auto-phone-trees that only another A.I. (artificial intelligence or 10 year old can understand); the one-hour valued customer waits...Continue reading

THE NEED FOR SPEED YESTERDAY about noon I was driving on the H1 freeway in Hawaii to the North Shore for some much needed R&R. The speed limit where the freeway passes through Honolulu is 45 miles per hour. The lanes are small, the cars are big and H1 being the major East-West artery, totally crowded. What was freaky was that I was the only one going the speed limit. Not the minimum or recommended, but the speed LIMIT. My estimate was that everyone around me was going at leas...Continue reading

Book Publisher and Independent Movie Studio Sign Cooperative Media Agreement A Hawaii-wood collaboration between Hawaii-based Savant Books and Publications and independent film studio K. Simmons Productions will soon bring tens of printed and digital books to comic book, animation and cinematic fans. HONOLULU May 21, 2021 PRLog Hawaii-based Savant Books and Publication (https://www.savantbooksandpublications.com) and independent film maker K. Simmons Productions (http...s://kspllc.media) have signed a cooperative media agreement to bring tens of outstanding books to manga (adult comic book), animation and cinematic fans. Under the agreement, K. Simmons Productions will extend Savant’s printed, digital/ebook and audiobook publications to include manga, animated and cinematic (movie) treatments. Products will be distributed worldwide through both K. Simmons Productions’ and the Savant Distribution networks. Retail customers will be able to purchase the products through book and video stores worldwide, including Savant’s four online regional USA bookstores (Savant Bookstore Atlantic, Savant Bookstore MidWest, Savant Bookstore Pacific and Savant Bookstore Honolulu) which offer 10% discount and free shipping within the USA including Alaska and Hawaii). Savant and K. Simmons’ Productions have already begun collaboration on a made-for-television film written by Savant author and screenwriter Richard Rose entitled The Static Movie (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie). On location rehearsals and filming are already underway. K. Simmons Productions offers interested individuals, organizations and companies the opportunity of being a part of this exciting venture through any-level crowdfunding (https://fundmyfilm.org/narrative-features/static/). The Static Movie is scheduled for release in mid-September 2021. For more information as well as media requests including promotional actor and staff interviews, contact K. Simmons Productions. #Savant #KSimmonsProductions #book #ebook #audiobook #manga #ComicBook #animation #movie #cinema #bookstore #TheStaticMovie #Static #RichardRose #filming #rehearsal #crowdfunding #investment #media #interview #SavantBooksAndPublications #Hawaii #Honolulu

PLANTS, WATER AND WORDS THERE’S really only two issues at the heart of human existence: plants and, I’m guessing you already guessed it, water. Without these humans can not exist. The heck with petroleum, nuclear energy, money and power. The first two represent limitations of contemporary knowledge, the latter two, human illusions. But plants, which regenerate air, potable water and provide basic food for all things animal, and their principal product, namely, organically enh...Continue reading