j. d. guinness
writer/editor/researcher/broadcaster
Hey, I’m J. D. I love my job: I travel and write books for a living.
I love pop culture, particularly the classics. I like to think of myself as an Ian Fleming [1] posing as Rod Serling[2] commenting on Russ Meyer[3] subjects in a Harvey Kurtzman[4] world.
I meet a lot of weird and wonderful people in my travels and I’m happy to SHARE them with you in my books (below) and this website. Please be sure check out my blog and my radio series (er, podcast)! I've got a web TV series in the works now too!
[1] Travel journalist and creator-author of the James Bond novels and stories.
[2] Creator, writer, and host of TV’s The Twilight Zone, noted for walking in on the story’s action.
[3] Filmmaker who specialized in stories depicting big-bosomed women battling dim-witted, square-jawed men.
[4] Cartoonist and creator of MAD Magazine.
The Famous Fakes - Celebrity impersonators. Do they really love to do it, or do they really do it for love?
Meet the Famous Fakes - known publicly as Stan, Oliver, and Charlie (and privately as Paul, Jean, and Steve). They're three self-proclaimed "studs" (and world-proclaimed "losers") in a three-man theatrical company.
Desperate for a break, they're ready to do just about anything to take their particular "boys' club" on the road. But to let a woman join them? On stage, yet?! That's only asking for trouble, isn't it?
A "backstage pass" that even gets you into their beds, The Famous Fakes is a wild, sexy comic romp for adults. Read it, and find out why, before you can "be yourself", you might just have to "do" everyone else! Buy The Famous Fakes Now at Amazon.
"Hilariously funny! Five Stars." - Kaye Trout
Mind U: Stories From A Different School of Thought - A free-form, wild and crazy anthology of adult humor, satire, sex comedy, fantasy and sci-fi, Mind U is preposterous, bizarre, silly, provocative, cryptic, and, above all, robustly entertaining. With me as your guide (and persistent minor character in the stories), Mind U addresses the burning questions of today, such as:
If you snooped in celebrities' diaries, would you find Long Story Shorts?
Did The Recess Brothers really invent hockey?
Was Filmmaker Richard Penner the real genius behind both Charlie Chaplin and the Beatles?
If Dan Mann is the world's greatest Hollywood stand-in, can he Double You?
Who in his right mind would send a mime to save our Small World?
What's a better way to keep the romance going in a relationship? The Sex Life Preserver or The Past Present?
Who and what exactly is a Space Chick?
Is happiness only possible if you Just Add Walter?
Light, dark, hot, warm, dry, Mind U is a lot more fun to read than instructions on the washer and dryer. Read it today. With or without underwear and socks. Buy Mind U Now at Amazon.com.
"Mind U is a top pick. Five Stars." - Midwest Book Review
Guinness’ Grabbings - More weird and wonderful artifacts from my globe-trotting travels in a variety of storytelling styles. Rare cartoons, rare stage, radio, TV, and movie scripts, celebrity diary extracts and prose, including a return visit from that underworked and oversexed theatrical troupe, the Famous Fakes. Buy Guinness' Grabbings now at Sellfy.com.
Guinness’ Goddesses - More zany adult comic-strip adventures featuring those aging delinquents known as The Funtime Kids. Plus, Paul's Productions, part two in our three-part biographical series featuring that underworked and oversexed theatre company, the Famous Fakes. Release Date: November 18, 2017.
Guinness Agog - The shocking, uproarious conclusion to our trilogy of comics and stories featuring the adult Funtime Kids, plus, The VEGAS Fakes, part three in the three-part biographical series featuring that underworked and oversexed theatre company, the Famous Fakes. Coming in 2020.