Live Chat With Paul Kyriazi - Be There! September 30, 12:00 Noon!

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Have you thought about having your book made into an audio book...Paul Kyriazi does it in a professional way...he gets actors to play the parts! He just directed one by Edd Byrnes (Kookie to most of us) with Edd playing the lead part...

Or, Are you interested in learning about Living the James Bond Life? Paul has a set ...of lessons but is going to be sharing some things and answering our questions about...anything!

Paul is in Tokyo! We've set the time for September 30th at 12:00 Noon EST to 2:00 PM; he's going to be up about Midnight Tokyo time...so please do take the time to visit with him...

Our first Live Chat from Tokyo! How cool is that?!!!! By the way, Paul is about the nicest guy I have met online...very personable and friendly...we are in for lots of fun! Be There!

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Review: Trouble on the Job Sometimes Leads to a Horror Novel!

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Final Price

By J. Gregory Smith







Sometimes frustration becomes all-consuming. Each little thing builds the level higher and higher, until something has to snap. Sometimes it leads to people screaming, an argument. But if you're on the job and you must continue to be smiling and totally supportive of "the customer," it becomes too late--only one thing will relieve your tension...

Shamus was a car salesman for Honda at Patriot Motors. He worked among a group of salesman who took turns as the customers came to look at cars.

Now I have to say a little in defense of customers--we all know that we are supposed to negotiate on the price--most of us hate that activity because we never know, we never believe that the deal is a "good one," otherwise, why is the salesman willing to make it!?

Shamus had a run of such customers. They weren't bad people; they just wanted to make the best deal possible, given the process... Well, you guessed it, the frustration had already built--Shamus Ryan was beyond being able to let his frustration go.

But he had found a way to work off his frustration. It worked just fine for him in fact! And you, the reader, gets to see every single time he works off that frustration...

Of course, many people were affected by Shamus' actions. There was a neighboring car dealership that was having lots of sales--somehow they would succeed in taking just a few more dollars off of the lowest price quoted by Patriot Motors and made their sales.

But the proud new owners didn't get much of a chance to drive those cars...

J. Gregory Smith describes his book as "more of a 'how-they-gonna-catch-em?'" Readers are able to see exactly what is happening. He suggests that we might even want to root for the villain sometimes... Hmmm, not!

Most of the book centers on Paul Chang, the primary officer in charge of the murders...What, you just knew Shamus was murdering the people on his client list...right? If a horror book can also be funny, this one was in a weird sort of way. It was well written and should be great for those who enjoy slasher stories...I don't know, maybe it was just too realistic for me...but if you ever feel frustrated at work...read this book to relieve that frustration!

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The James Bond Lifestyle...Paul Kyriazi Shares Review/Story of Seminar

Cover of Tokyo!

True Terror in Tokyo - James Bond Lifestyle advice.


I got this story straight from the horse: A Japanese college student boy was walking in Shujuku (popular movie and restaurant section of Tokyo) when a pretty girl standing by a bar invited him to come in and have a drink with her.

After having a drink and singing a karioki song he got handed a bill for $500 by the tough guy manager. "This can't be right", he said. The manager replied, "One hundred dollars for each drink. One hundred for singing a song. Another hundred for singing with the girl. And another hundred for putting your hand on the girl's shoulder while you sang. That's a total of $500."

"I only have $200."

"Then give me your watch until you come back with the money or you can't leave". The next day he came back and redeemed his watch.

Lots of lessons in this story for us James Bond Lifestyle students. Such as always know the kind of place that you are going into and what you are getting into. And it's better to carry $500 and not need it, than need $500 and not have it. And to quote Johnny Rivers in Secret Agent Man:

A pretty face can hide an evil mind."


Jesse James' magazine calls
the James Bond Lifestyle "The baddest seminar of them all."




Here's what the November '09 issue #20 of Garage magazine said about The James Bond Lifestyle seminar. And remember this is not an ad. This is what they said after listening to the course:

"Contrary to popular belief, seminars didn't necessarily die a painful post- '80's death. They are alive and well today, and the baddest seminar of them all is How to Live the James Bond Lifestyle.

Come on, who doesn't want to be James Bond? Why would you choose to be a depressed, lonely accountant when Paul Kyriazi can offer you the definitive guide to being a suave, stylish sex god - replete with chicks, cars, gadgets, and exotic locales - on 8 CDs.

Don't hesitate, begin your journey to Aston Martin ownership today."



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And then the editors put my website and three photos of the box and CDs, in full color. Yes, Jesse James is the guy on the Discovery Channel  and on 'The Celebrity Apprentice' show with Trump.

James Bond Lifestyle Seminar page on Facebook: http://bit.ly/dkI9qj


Paul Kyriazi is now in Tokyo, so I thought I would include a story from there...Paul will be with the Reviewers Roundup before the end of the month in a live chat from Tokyo! Keep watching for details!

Review: The Bridge is Gone! A Common Man's Must Read!

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The Bridge is Gone:
Poems by Monolin


By Monolin "Manny" Moreno

Perhaps it was because we are around the same age and have many years to look back on that I so much became involved and appreciated the poetry in The Bridge is Gone by Manny Moreno. Actually, he set me up right from the first page by adding a beautiful image, "Time." In fact, each image throughout the book took more time to study, than to read his words--they are that compelling.

Each of the five drawings, especially the one on the back cover, are worth the price of the book! Each is intricately created, with a basic collage of Indian faces, but then, somehow, nature, God, people, and love radiate from the overall effect and we, who are privileged to see them, are filled with wonder as we stop to study the symmetry, the detail, and imagination flowing from each...

As with his other book, soon to be published, Manny also includes photos from his life and his surroundings, which provides readers with a cultural "inside" that would not easily be found.

Now I must tell you about his poetry! Readers of my reviews have always wanted a sample, so I will include the last one in his book, which, in essence, seems to represent the man I am coming to know:

Common Man

There's a lot of things

I don't understand

I'm just a common man

ask me how the world was created

I'll direct you to the sky

ask me about politics

I'll say lie   cheat   genocide

Imperialistic pride

ask me about religion

I'll say man's plan

ask me about spirituality

I'll say Creator's plan

ask me about anything

I'll say who wants to know?

There's a lot of things

I don't understand

I'm just a common man.

And it is within this poem that we find the essence of this poet--he is a commoner, just like most of us, and his words easily become those that we might think or say, if only we had the gift to poetically share our thoughts. Manny takes us back to our childhood and points out so much of that time has disappeared, with what it is called progress and perhaps it is progress, but it also means that part of our memories no longer exist, except in our minds.

Manny talks of lost love, that keeps him awake, "can't sleep, for a hurt that hurts like hell..."(p. 21) and goes on to say, "I cannot love anybody if I cannot love me..." ((p. 91). But remembers well of his early life, "mom's cooking beckoning us into the house with love. (p. 65)

The most dramatic work must be "Sleepless Night in Stockton" which has 14 parts on 11 pages. Picture a single man, alone in the city, coming home to the quiet apartment, no noise, no people, only his words to help create an escape, trying to unwind, realizing how old he is, remembering his past, his family, yet  his "thoughts find themselves in travail and pow-wow in circles...A Yaqui/Tarascan maneuvering in this reservation of modern-I-zation, everyday a warrior." For he, like all of us, must hold on to what we are..

And then Manny Moreno sings, prays...and catches some z's...

An Introduction provides readers with a little of this poet's personal story, along with over 50 beautifully written poetic stories to complement his days. Now he is an Elder--he has his hand drum, a rattle, sage, sweetgrass and cedar for the fire and will continue to celebrate and pray for our world--where The Bridge is Gone! A Must-Read for we who are the common people of America...

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Paul Kyriazi Shares His Work Ethic...

Complete All Projects



Leave nothing on the back burner.







I had met another film maker a few years after college. He had seen my seven 16mm action films. And one day he said to me,"I knew you were a serious film maker when I met you." "I thought you didn't like my action movies", I said.

He replied,"I liked them well enough, but it's not that. It's because you had completed film, after completed film, after completed film."

Yes, there are a lot of uncompleted projects in the film world. It seems the film maker, the script writer, or even the novelist or short story writer runs out of steam after the first burst of honest passion.

Once an excited writer showed his three-page short story to a group of us. After he left, one guy said, "He only wrote a three-page story. That doesn't compare with my 300 page novel." (He had been working on that novel for two years.) I said, "Until you finish. His three-page finished story beats your 300-page unfinished one. He can now bind it and give it out. But you can't, yet."

So leave nothing on "the back burner". Finish it. Even if it's shorter and less perfect than you intended. Finish it. Even a 17 syllable 'haiku' poem that is finished, beats a 400 page masterpiece that is not. I had a 25 min. comedy that I shot in college, but hadn't got the actors together to dub in the sound.

Years went by and I was on my fourth feature and I finally cut the film on video to a silent 15 minutes with music. (I saw it could play that way.) I made video copies and sent them to the actors. One of the actors became an art teacher and shows the movie every year to his classes.

He can show it because it was completed.

Living the James Bond Life...

Thomas Kemp's Latest Creates Image of Jewelko...

Jewelko is one of the characters in Thomas Kemp's Novel. This poem reminded me of that character and the wonderful exchange between Jewelko and the young soldier who became her lover... Some other poems of those beautifully written exchanges are included in Your Poet Is...

She spoke my name twice, Thomas Thomas.

And then added, please by all means

do come closer.

I was stretching as far as I could
while still trying to hold my balance.
echoing she said again
please by all means...come closer Thomas please.


It was then with those words I fell so far.

Expressions were the law
If you saw the soft face of love
Holding on to it was so necessary
To be sure the sound need not be uttered

Your hands were tight around the dream.



Thomas kemp/poet