Jeff D Buchanan
AUTHOR/ FILMMAKER
“Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
— Goethe
Photo: Andy Pilger
Welcome to my site. You no doubt find yourself here because you are a lover of books. As a writer my influences range from Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke, to Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, from Cormac McCarthy to Toni Morrison and D.H. Lawrence to Anais Nin.
My interest in hard science fiction and sensual literature often finds me experimenting with combining genres, aspiring to capture an organic and harmonious mix of human emotion with engaging story themes. As an indie author publishing under my own imprint I rely on word of mouth to spread awareness of my books. If you enjoy the books you find here please share them with others.
Of special note, I want to ensure to my readers that as a purist, I have never, and will never enlist the artificial means of A.I. to produce content. I personally view A.I. as an affront to human imagination and a dangerous derailing of the art and craft of literature. Perhaps this thinking makes me a dinosaur, but I’m worth preserving.
New Book
Chasing Distant Rain
The Salinas Valley had seen perhaps its last rains. Soft sunrises and pastoral sunsets a thing of the past. The oppressive heat, endless drought, and virulent winds, all threats to bury the fields of artichokes in a suffocating of dust.
The remaining synth-human fieldworkers of Thornton Corporation continue in the thankless task of mindless labor, the only thing they know to do, the only thing they were programmed to do, passively bringing in the harvest, living out their final days in the sobering wake of obsoletion.
A human, Caleb Godfrey, had arrived from corporate, bringing the new machinery to “future” the droids out of existence. But when he discovers what the synth-human workers have built in a blind of canyon at the base of the foothills, it upsets his endeavor, introducing troubling revelations.
Complicating matters, Caleb finds himself drawn to Evelina, his secretary, a synth-human, the taboo of a human/synth-human entanglement (“crossing”) further estranging him from his duties in a foreboding of awakening to a new world order.
THE SENSUAL LITERATURE
Also Available at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, Calif
The Carnal Education Of Miss Vicky
1918. The First World War. Private Warren White, an American soldier serving with the Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front, escapes the horrors of the battlefield by writing loving letters home to Victoria May, “Miss Vicky,” his sweet and proper bride-to-be.
Meanwhile, he maintains a series of lubricious communications with his mistress, Camille, graphically recounting their many sexual trysts in explicit detail.
Stranded in the fog of war, compounded when he suffers a disorienting mishap in battle, the young soldier unwittingly sets into motion a calamitous circumstance of events back home in Erie, Pennsylvania between the two ardently opposed women.
Trilogy: Three Erotic Novellas
THE READER
A young female linguistics major has her personal comfort zone tried when she is hired by an older, wealthy gentleman to read for him in the nude. What begins as a simple, titillating experience to fulfill his intriguing fetish becomes a complex tangle of human emotion for “the reader.”
THE VINEYARD
A lonely, widowed grape-grower unexpectedly finds himself drawn into the amorous charms of a mysterious young woman who wanders onto his vineyard one morning. What follows is a surreal and sensuous journey into the euphoric highs of life that contrast his obsession with death.
FEMALE NUDE RECLINING
1939. Paris. On the eve of Germany’s invasion of Poland, in anticipation of war, the artwork of the Louvre is moved to the countryside for safekeeping. A young violinist, volunteered to the great evacuation, meets an older French woman whose farmhouse has been chosen to hide several paintings. With the threat of war looming, and her capitaine husband off to prepare for the defense of France, desperation and uncertainty thrusts them into a relationship of sexual awakening for the young violinist.
THE Hard Science Fiction
Earthrise
* The Plunge of Icarus is available in the unique, visually immersive Cinenovel® platform exclusively for the Kindle Fire.
The Plunge Of Icarus
The future. The Aegean Sea. The isle of Crete has been resurrected as Mount Olympus, a military superpower.
The pilots here have been raised since birth to believe they are the new Greek gods, given lives of privilege for merciless killing in a never-ending global conflict.
Icarus is Mount Olympus’ top pilot. Calloused by war, he has never questioned what it is he does… until one day, high above the clouds, he has a profound experience that unravels a lifetime of beliefs.
In a whirlwind of despair, Icarus finds consoling with the beautiful Adrasteia, one of the base’s nymphs, who helps usher him into a conscience.
Short Fiction
Karmic Blues
At times humorous and sad, thought-provoking and borderline paranoid, Karmic Blues is a collection of irreverent short stories unveiling the many oddities, sufferings, and idiosyncrasies that plague much of mankind. Whether it be a panicked playwright desperately trying to appease an imaginary audience (Killing Stage), a professional car thief achieving a perverted sense of morality (Mr. Nick), an old man who transforms his front yard into a junkyard of revenge (Raven On A Porch), or the calamitous endeavor of an alien Ambassador from the planet Teravulia who comes up woefully short on his expectations of Earth (Celestial Blues), Karmic Blues is certain to raise an eyebrow as it entertains.
Collected Wanderings
A compilation of the author’s favorite and most heartfelt articles and columns culled from a twenty-year, globetrotting career as a motorcycle journalist. Introspective, thoughtful, and humorous, the writings offer an entertainment of reading to be savored by riders and non-riders alike.
The writings that comprise “Collected Wanderings” span an eclectic array of topics, all born from a life on two wheels.
“I think anyone that enjoys living life will enjoy this book!”
—Andrade
Photo: Alfonse Palaima
Audio Books
The Reader
A young female linguistics major has her personal comfort zone tried when she is hired by an older, wealthy gentleman to read for him in the nude. What begins as a simple, titillating experience to fulfill his intriguing fetish becomes a complex tangle of human emotion for “the reader.”
Mr. Buchanan is pleased to partner with Alison Doolittle, who brings her exquisite, mellifluous voice to read this tantalizing tale about the complex emotions of human sexuality. She delivers a read that can only be described as verbal honey.
About The Author
Jeff D Buchanan
An award-winning television commercial Director, Jeff Buchanan has an extensive history in independent feature films. Starting out in the editing room, Buchanan edited a number of feature films, one of which earned a Special Category prize at the Atlanta Film festival. In the following years Buchanan worked up through the ranks, first as a lighting director, then as a Production Manager, First Assistant Director and then Producer on feature films as varied as Tokyo Hoie’s “Strawberry Road” (starring Toshiro Mifune) to American Playhouse Theatrical Films’ production of John O’Keefe’s “Shimmer,” which was invited to screen at the prestigious Deauville Film Festival.
Buchanan was founding partner in Gilbert/Dann Creative, a boutique advertising agency that created a string of memorable, sometimes controversial TV spots in the late 90s, earning them the coveted Ad of the Week in AdWeek (the advertising industry’s Bible) three times along with two Telly Awards (cable television’s highest advertising honor).
An avid motorcycle enthusiast, Buchanan co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of Robb Report Motorcycling (a Curtco Robb Media publication). With over 2,500 articles published internationally, Buchanan has earned a reputation as a respected journalist.
Buchanan owns the Trademark for Cinenovel®, a unique, visually and audio immersive publishing endeavor that marries his cinematic and literary background into a new genre of unique picture/storybooks.
He lives on the Balearic island of Mallorca.
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