Just when you thought it was safe to go to my site and read the latest harmless blog…
Return to Laughter, which has been mentioned in one of my bios as a completed book (and it was; I just decided to hold it back and make a few minor changes) has finally been released and a link can be found on my “Books” page. Here, to hold you spellbound and breathless, and to encourage you to instantly buy dozens of copies for yourself and everyone you have ever met in your entire life, is the description:
Return to Laughter is an insider’s account of the rise and fall and bittersweet redemption of a wild and wildly ambitious young star. Young Rocky Stone rebels against the stuffy and circumscribed world of his upbringing and climbs up the acting ladder to the top of the most glamorous profession there is, a world of wealth, fame, and privilege, as well as sex, drugs, and self-destruction. The birth of a child stops Rocky Stone’s downward spiral, but Hollywood is also a world where cheating and embezzlement are ways of life, and lives are considered disposable. When real disaster strikes, can a little girl save him? Perhaps a novel, perhaps a roman à clef, perhaps a biography, Return to Laughter weaves reality and fiction together to paint a portrait of Hollywood that is as true today as it has always been, a transient place of youth and beauty and adoration and the shadow of something evil.
Congratulations for your new book!Sometimes good things need some time.If you previously had the feeling the book is not good, or not good enough,it was right to hold the book back until it’s good for you.Your gut feeling has to say: Yes! In addition: Rome was not built in a day.
I looked inside in the book at Amazon.I think the cover has been well chosen.The cover and the look inside one can imagine as life in Hollywood can be.For many, this is a dream. But they forget apart from success and fame the dark side of such a life.The book makes you curious.I wish you many success for the sale of your book!!
I read at time still “An Accidental Cowboy”.Up to page 149 I have already read it, hahaha.It is more difficult for me as I thought.Then I would like to read “To Absent Friends”.Although a friend from me, she lives in Mobile, Alabama, says the book is nothing for me, it would be so sad?We will see …..
I wish you and your family all the best!
Manuela
Dear Jameson:
I am curious as to your creative process when you write one or your books. Care to elaborate?
rlmandell@aol.com
Hey,this is your Blog-at least it was the last time I checked !
Self-Promote as much as your heart desires !
Nothing shameless about that as far as I’m concerned……..
Love to hear about your new book!
Andrea
J’ai mis du temps à comprendre qu’il y avait un lien pour lire une partie de vos livres sur Amazone.
J’étais un peu frustrée de ne pas voir la suite et de me dire que jamais je ne l’aurais !!!!!!!
Mais si, car dans quelques temps je vais prendre ma retraite et mes collègues de travail m’ont annoncé que j’allais avoir en cadeau de départ une tablette numérique !!!!! Je crois que l’une des premières choses que je vais faire, c’est de me mettre sur Amazone et de commander votre livre !!!!! Avec les traductions, je pourrai comprendre l’intégralité de votre livre (les phrases sont souvent à l’envers et certainement que de votre côté, vous devez lire également mes textes d’une façon un peu bizarre……)
Vous arriverez peut-être à me transmettre un peu de votre savoir
Anita
Dearest JP
THAT would be something. And would make me veeeeeeeery happy. 
..harmless blog? hehe right……….
Sure yes I want the new book, finally a paperback edition – not kindle BUT – and thats on top of my wishlist – I want a signed copy by the author, in this case YOU! Unfortunate I am in germany and my mission seems to be impossible. *sigh* Or maybe you can do some clever promotion like “buy 10 get one signed for free”
I just wanted to let you know that your “Shameless Self-promotion” works. I downloaded and have been reading “Return to Laughter.” Due to the obligations of life I am only at the point where Miranda has arrived on-set, however, I am full of thoughts, questions, observations, etc. that I will hold until I am finished.
JJ
And BTW, I am enjoying it.
Congrats JP on your new book , looking forward to reading it!! Sorry I haven’t been reading your blog recently as I have been working full time as a wireless tech. I will say that on my days off I will have my nose buried in this book.
Many best wishes !!
Tena French Halifax, NS Canada
Where can I purchase your book? Just checked out Amazon (bought season 8 of Simon & Simon) and could only find a Kindle version and I would much rather have a hard copy book. Thank you
Bob “Old Man” of Reading, MA
Dear Mr. Parker,
I enjoyed your tale of Hollywood, “Return to Laughter”. I gave you four stars on Amazon and was the first to review it. I enjoy your wonderful use of the english language. I wonder how much of Rocky Stone is an amalgamation of actors you have know in Hollywood? Many of your novel’s endings do not, i.e. Horseman at Midnight, American Riff, do not have a so called “happy ending”. How did you decide on the endings, given that the Horseman at Midnight might have been more life affirming if Matt had survived? Have personal experiences in your life, influenced the endings of the novels?
One of these days I will buy a Kindle and the first book I put on it will be “Return to Laughter”! (Unless you’re planning on having a hard version published?) I can’t wait to read it! I hope you publish many more books!
And as for the “shameless self-promotion”… it’s your blog, you can post anything you want, whether it’s plugs for your new book, promotions for someone else’s books, song lyrics, etc. Your blog, your rules.
Whatever you write, I’ll be reading, and so will your other fans!
(I’ve been wondering if you and Darleen have been well, since you seemingly haven’t been around this past week. I check your blog every day to see if you’ve posted anything. Hope that doesn’t make me sound like some kind of crazy stalker, lol. I don’t update my blog every day, either.)
If I can do some shameless plugging of my own, my blog is here http://ggillilan1972.blogspot.com if anyone is interested in reading it!
Ciana
To those of you who don’t have a Kindle – there are free programs for lots of devices which allow you to read those ebooks on your computer, your smartphone or at least some tablets. Look in Kindle store, it’s the ‘Free Reading Apps’ link. I had Kindle for Mac, but it didn’t work very well (old operating system and not very much free memory) so now I use the Kindle Cloud Reader – I read the books on a browser window on my computer. So there is no need to wait until you can buy an actual Kindle reader, all you need is your computer and a web connection.
Kiti
I finally got a chance to finish “Return to Laughter.” I enjoyed it very much but I am filled with curiosity. You admitted it was “semi-autobiographical,” and some things I already “knew” from reading your biography and “An Accidntal Cowboy.” I don’t want to spoil the story for other readers with my questions so I will try and be discreet…Did your father really have another job besides the foreign service? Did the stars of Simon & Simon imbibe like stars of “Mahoney, for Hire?” I am thinking not….but then again….and-I hope this is purely fictional…was there a Brandi Lane in your life? I will be recommending this story to some friends and I know they will have some of the same questions!
JJ
No, no, and yes.
JP
I spent several enjoyable evenings these last few weeks, reading ” An Accidental Cowboy”, “American Riff” and “Return to Laughter”. I especially relished your use of descriptives, of people, of places, of animals, of yourself; and your sumptious use of language, sometimes words strung together so wonderfully that I had to re-read the paragraph, or say it out loud to confirm that it sounded as lyrical and colorful and rich as it read. (it always did)
I’m rather uppity in my reading preferences, and many novels are deleted (ereader) or returned (bookstore), partially read, fully disappointing. Yours will remain on my device, perhaps at some future date they will be reread, as I often do with novels I am fond of. Thank you for filling my winter evenings with some great story telling.