Celebrating Visionary Fiction Pioneer Monty Joynes
Join me in Celebrating Visionary Fiction Pioneer Monty Joynes on the Visionary Fiction Alliance website.
I am the fortunate owner of a set, each inscribed with a personal message, of all four volumes of the original Booker series by Monty Joynes, adventurer, Vietnam “era” vet, magazine editor, travel writer, diplomat, and author of more than twenty published books, among other accomplishments. Noteworthy here is that all these books, published between 1997 and 2000 by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, has Visionary Fiction prominently printed on their back covers as the genre. In other words, what the VFA have been striving to make happen in the two years of its website’s existence, had already been accomplished by at least one popular author with an established publishing house some fifteen years ago.
Who is this enigmatic Monty Joynes, who, according to his bio, resides in the relative seclusion of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina with his wife and creative partner, Pat? And how did he happen upon the concept and write books that embody the major characteristics of visionary fiction so many years before the VFA was formed to define and promote VF as a genre? To date, Monty Joynes has been part of the hidden history of visionary fiction; the purpose of this post is to make him hidden no more….
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