Sick Kids Walk...

The Sick Kids is holding Meagan's Walk, a walk event fundraiser this weekend (today) May 9, 2015 all day from Fort York to Sick Kids hospital.

Support major equipment purchases and capital renovations – ensuring Sick Kids' facilities remain leading edge and that the children there are receiving the best treatment that they can.

See more at: Sick Kids Hospital for details.

I won't be able to make it to this event but hopefully to one in the future. The next one is coming up.

A big (official) hug and greets to everyone taking part from Warai, Heylyn, Alicia, Norler, Valerie (and Monique from her hospital bed when she recovers) the characters of The Butterfly Dragon and from myself.

They look forward to seeing you at the as of yet unnamed fashion and music event taking place at Dundas Square and Queen Street and John Street this summer between June and July.

Many good causes will also be present as well. You can attend by reading the book The Butterfly Dragon: Dragon Butterfly published here absolutely for free for the benefit and support of charities like The Sick Kids!

All the best!

Brian Joseph Johns

RNA World...

An interesting announcement recently came from the Michael H.W. Weber, Project Administrator over at RNA World http://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ is that through Supercomputing and Distributed Computing Applications, that they are gearing up for what could be revolutionary approach to future gene therapy programs through health care.

The new additions involve setting up their Supercomputing and distributed computing server systems to conduct the search for molecular binders, agents that bind to Ribonucleic Acids which are the messengers that convey genetic information for the production of specific proteins in DNA and the regular functioning of cells. By affecting the RNA either by inhibiting it or enhancing it, finding such molecular binders would lead to innovative approaches to gene therapy from stopping viruses at the cellular and genetic level, to Cancer treatments that affect only Cancerous cells while preventing them from multiplying and other future applications that involve modifying the function of these RNA messengers. This is real world research that has a direct impact upon future treatments by providing Molecular Biologists and Geneticists with the data they need for the development of such treatments.

RNA World is one of the many projects available on through World Community Grid and Boinc, where you can contribute your home or office computer's idle to computation for solving real world problems like the fight against Cancer and other diseases to research for the SETI program.

Its interesting to note that SETI@Home was among the first in not the first distributed computing project and directly led to advances that resulted in the use of distributed computing for Cancer and research in the fight against disease.

Thank you Mr. Weber for that announcement.

Look forward to some new chapters in the second book of The Butterfly Dragon and a return to the short story posts which will follow Alicia's first years in the research lab leading up to her discovery of the SY-Series compound.

Brian Joseph Johns

Everything is back online...

Everything is back up and online including the latest 13 chapters (released on May 3rd, 2015).

I'll be adding more chapters soon.

Brian Joseph Johns

Removed Until Further Notice

I've been made the subject of a cruel form of theft and substitution for which I am pulling down the stories for a short time from here. Unfortunately the group responsible is against my love interest being of a different culture than mine (she's Oriental and I'm Caucasian) and this cult has made it a game of using the stories as the grounds to steal from me what I accomplish including the stories themselves (they've been doing the same thing with A Lady's Prerogative as well for some time which I've also pulled down).

The group involved employ illegal means of eavesdropping on my computer despite the fact that I am not a criminal offender (must be a criminal gang doing it then). The output seems to be shared with people in my vicinity unfortunately who then use it to lay claim to the credit for the writing.

In my community, I am often mistreated by many people while someone else in the building is credited for my deeds. So the stories are coming down until this is resolved.

This is not "blue love" by the way in other words hate does not mean love and love does not mean hate.

I hope to have the stories back up before the end of the month.

Brian Joseph Johns

A Quick Note

Recently the issue of money has become an important aspect of the future of my blogs and this site and more importantly the future of the books. I have been working on a side business project in the arena of software development hoping to get that going enough to help me bridge the distance to the point of publishing the book versions of Butterfly Dragon: Heroes Of Our Own and Butterfly Dragon: Dragon Butterfly.

The goal with these books and with others on Tales Of The Sanctum was to make the first draft available publicly, so that those who love to read who wanted to read the material, but for whatever reason were unable to make a purchase would have complete access to the first draft of the book. Actually, the crowd funding model would have worked good with this effort but I'm not sure that I'm ready for that just yet.

The reason for this notice is to let you know that the stories of The Butterfly Dragon as available from this blog will always be made available for free to the reader and I will never ask for any kind of donation, but instead ask that you seek to donate to the charities I've listed here on the right panel of the blog who are doing meaningful research to fight Cancer and degenerative diseases that affect many people on a daily basis the world over. These stories were meant to inspire the hero in us all for that purpose and to inspire people to take part in such an effort.

Sharing your off hours computing time with projects like the World Community Grid is another way to help if you cannot afford to donate, but please seek to help those charities I've listed on the right (or others of your own choosing in a related cause) if you can, even with a modest donation. I seek to especially help the causes of Cancer research (and those that help fight breast cancer or aid in its diagnosis and treatment like WaveCheck) and degenerative diseases, especially those affecting the mobility of others and the potential and future of children.

I will never ask for any money on this site but I will advertise the print or ebook version final edition of the stories written here, which will include new material and possibly extra chapters not included in the online first draft edition of these stories. That will most likely be hosted on a different site altogether as I don't want this to be a money grab on the shoulders of these charities or their efforts. The stories are the vehicle to get people thinking about being heroes themselves by helping out these causes.

The other stories on my sites like Tales Of The Sanctum (which is the official site for the A Lady's Prerogative series of stories) will follow the same model, but will offer an option to support the writing process of these books. I still haven't decided which sites will offer this option or not, but I am considering the future in this respect.

As times goes on, I'll never have any way of knowing the effect by any sum of money these stories had upon raising money for those charities but I know it is helping and hopefully inspiring others to do the same. In the meantime I will develop the stories to the point that they will be ready for print (ebook) and hopefully at some point in the future, ready for other media formats...

Brian Joseph Johns

Happy International Women's Day!

Happy International Women's Day!

One of the great things I love about Google is the cover art they include that lets you know about special days when they occur and this is one of them.

The final chapters to A Lady's Prerogative: Wounded Aerth and The Butterfly Dragon: The Dragon Butterfly will be up soon though I cannot say when, but I will say soon.

From Tales Of The Sanctum and A Lady's Prerogative, best wishes!

Brian Joseph Johns

Updates On Hold Temporarily...

Hello from the Sanctum, I am the author of A Lady's Prerogative 1, 2 and Testament Of Time and the author of Butterfly Dragon: Heroes Of Our Own and the currently in progress Butterfly Dragon: The Dragon Butterfly.

Much like the current events at the Sanctum in A Lady's Prerogative: Wounded Aerth, my Sanctum is very much under attack by an abusive group of people unfortunately.

The same people locally have been using illegal tech to spy on my writing and attempting to steal it as I do it, while harassing me very aggressively and sometimes around the clock. As  result, I'm putting the stories on hold temporarily until I can recuperate from the latest round of attacks by a very nasty group of people, who seem to be doing exactly what the Culdar Rath of that story did to many of the residents of the colony (bury or burn them alive and steal the victim's accomplishments while dumping their "transgressions" onto the victims). My intent was never to punish my readers and essentially it isn't as I need time to recover from the latest round of attacks as they've been potentially damaging and abusive to say the least.

I wonder if J.K. Rowling went through similar interruptions while she was penning the original Harry Potter series, as it too deals with witch craft or if Stephanie Meyers was interrupted and harassed during her work on the Twilight series as it deals with Vampirism?

What about Clive Barker or Stephen King whose stories deal with a variety of other horrorific and demonic topics?

I am not implying that I am anywhere near their quality as a writer, but the principle is just the same. Their books contain many controversial allegorical questions that they pose to the reader, much like mine do and that is what makes reading so great, especially when it challenges your ideas about the world and expands them. What is the difference between people that results in how such a group chooses to target and victimize someone?

Anyhow, I refuse to give up, but I do need to recover as they've been literally going around the clock for a few months now in shifts and I only have so much energy and patience.

I will be back recharged soon enough. Until then,

Stay Safe And Be Well
Brian Joseph Johns

PS: I will be keeping the pressure on in exposing their ideology and methodology from some of my other blogs as I believe that I am not the only victim. I think that this group intends literally to steal my efforts (have they been already and I just think people know me as the writer?), With eavesdropping technology, a group of people can and do literally steal your efforts as you make them on your computer and transfer them to someone located elsewhere. You might notice the popularity of your efforts in clues from people out there, but those people might think someone else entirely different is the author. I'd like to retain the rights to my own stories for future expansion of projects related to their content.