|
|
Post by davidrn on Nov 26, 2022 14:06:16 GMT -6
I believe I have read all of Jerry's stories over the past decade. However, I started going back and checking stories to see if I missed any. When I start a story, frequently I don't remember the tittle, but the story seems familiar, then I move on. It would be great if there was one thread describing all of the stories, so we all can complete all the work Jerry has for us to read. Again, Jerry thanks for all the work you have put into PAW fiction for all of us.
|
|
|
|
Post by papaof2 on Nov 26, 2022 22:22:29 GMT -6
Not that I'm aware of. If someone wants to provide that, it would be most welcome. One possible place to steal summaries would be Amazon as I think most, if not all, of his books are available in Kindle format.
You could search for Jerry D Young in Books and then read each blurb for the key pieces of info - or even cut and paste (but not the whole blurb - most of those familiar with his stories would probably recognize the story in one or two sentences).
|
|
|
|
Post by CountryGuy on Dec 27, 2022 20:40:07 GMT -6
I recall a web site years ago that had a list of many of Jerry's stories and I think Flea Taxi and TOM's stories with a short paragraph about the gist of the story. I can't find it. It might have also been on Jerry's site. I know a few years back he pulled a lot of that stuff down and monetized the stories by loading them up onto Amazon. I can't blame him, he put a lot of work into his stories and deserves to get paid for them after all these years.
|
|
|
|
Post by brucearmstrong65 on Jan 1, 2023 21:52:19 GMT -6
I recall a web site years ago that had a list of many of Jerry's stories and I think Flea Taxi and TOM's stories with a short paragraph about the gist of the story. I can't find it. It might have also been on Jerry's site. I know a few years back he pulled a lot of that stuff down and monetized the stories by loading them up onto Amazon. I can't blame him, he put a lot of work into his stories and deserves to get paid for them after all these years. I remember the site you mention. I believe Jerry pulled his site because of costs and because Amazon requires pulling free posts of materials published / monetized through Amazon. To be frank, I don't know if he is writing or posting anymore, and if he is, I don't know where. Hope he's okay. |
|
|
|
Post by CountryGuy on Jan 2, 2023 10:57:46 GMT -6
I recall a web site years ago that had a list of many of Jerry's stories and I think Flea Taxi and TOM's stories with a short paragraph about the gist of the story. I can't find it. It might have also been on Jerry's site. I know a few years back he pulled a lot of that stuff down and monetized the stories by loading them up onto Amazon. I can't blame him, he put a lot of work into his stories and deserves to get paid for them after all these years. I remember the site you mention. I believe Jerry pulled his site because of costs and because Amazon requires pulling free posts of materials published / monetized through Amazon. To be frank, I don't know if he is writing or posting anymore, and if he is, I don't know where. Hope he's okay.
I went and googled him and Obit and similar and nothing pops up with his pic, surprised how many Jerry D Young's there are.  His profile on Amazon looks to be his original self written piece. I can't find anything on Wiki related to him. Wish we could know more. Doubt there is anyone in this community that hasn't read many of his stories. I know years ago when I was getting into PAW his stories and Flea Taxi and TOM's were the ones I read voraciously and most were due to Jerry's promotion of their works and his self promotion and presence in many of the survival, prep and similar forums.
Here is a link to all his listing on Amazon where he has them up.
www.amazon.com/stores/Jerry-D.-Young/author
Creative Texts Publishers, LLC looks to be the publisher and Jerry is listed under there talent but if you click it it sends you to his writer profile on Amazon.
I sorted by publish date and the most recent one was 2017 and they look to be a series of like 8 books under the title "Jerry D. Young's Survival Fiction Library: Book Eight: True Terror"
www.amazon.com/Jerry-Youngs-Survival-Fiction-Library-ebook
|
|
|
|
Post by CountryGuy on Jan 2, 2023 11:23:51 GMT -6
Here is his bio from on Amazon and I believe he's used it other places. I believe this dates to when he first started posting on Amazon which I believe to be around 2105 based on publishing dates.
About the Author
Jerry D Young was born at home, in Senath, Missouri July 3, 1953. At age 5 the family rented a small farm house on an active farm 40 miles southwest of St. Louis. While the family weren't farmers, they lived something of a homestead type life, raising a milk cow, sometimes two, and calves, a pig or two, chickens, and the occasional goat. Along with the stock, a large garden helped to feed Jerry's three brothers and two sisters for several years. Fishing and hunting contributed to the pantry, as did foraging the wild edibles on the property.
At the age of 14, the family, minus a brother and two sisters that were now adults and on their own, moved back to Senath. Having been encouraged from an early age to read, Jerry was a regular patron of the Senath Branch Library.
A love of a good story was born within him, and shortly before graduating high school, for a lack of stories that he liked at the library, he began to write short vignettes, and started taking notes for stories that he wanted to tell. Well, a full life interceded, and the writing didn't resume for several years.
But while working a job with a much free time, and the then newfangled home computer, Jerry began to write in earnest. With the occasional gap in the process, Jerry continued to research and write, never believing he could ever be published. But when he turned 50, he wanted a change in his life, left the job he was doing and published two of the novels he wrote. "Mr. Man" and then "Shipwrecked!" through an online POD publisher.
When he became ill, the writing stopped, but not the inspiration. When he started writing again, in 2004, after getting the medical problems under control, he began to read some on-line stories dealing with emergency preparedness, one of his other loves. The die was cast. Now with over a hundred of the vignettes and short stories about how to survive disasters written, along with his other novels, Jerry decided to go for broke, and took the opportunity Amazon offered by allowing authors to put their works on line for Kindle users.
Adding one of his previous works every few days to his list of stories now available, Jerry continues to write, both the Prep/PAW stories, as well as action adventure with a little romance type stories that first got him started.
|
|
|
|
Post by papaof2 on Jan 2, 2023 11:59:54 GMT -6
|
|
|
|
Post by CountryGuy on Jan 3, 2023 11:43:53 GMT -6
I had messaged his group on FB and got a response last evening.
"Thank you for checking in. I spoke with him today and he is feeling better. 2022 was a rough year. We are his publisher and you are correct he hasn't been able to write in some time. We are, however, releasing a lot of his titles in Audiobook, narrated by Christopher Lane who also narrates for Dean Koontz and other top authors. Happy New Year!"
I just sent a reply asking them to pass along my wishes for him to get well soon and to let him know many others out here do the same and are pulling for him to get well soon.
|
|
His profile on Amazon looks to be his original self written piece. I can't find anything on Wiki related to him. Wish we could know more. Doubt there is anyone in this community that hasn't read many of his stories. I know years ago when I was getting into PAW his stories and Flea Taxi and TOM's were the ones I read voraciously and most were due to Jerry's promotion of their works and his self promotion and presence in many of the survival, prep and similar forums.