Tales Richly Spun

22/06/2024

Prosperity, Pennsylvania's spiritual leader shares his life story:

By Reverend Lucifer Divine Bramlett, "First Church of Jesus Christ, Troublemaker" and Prosperity Minister of Fellowship

20/06/2024

https://prosperitypennsylvania.substack.com/p/turns-out-we-the-people-can-have

by Nick Barlow, Cranky Geezer and Prosperity Minister of Transportation

20/06/2024

Prosperity, Pennsylvania resident Nick Barlow has his say...https://open.substack.com/pub/prosperitypennsylvania/p/turns-out-we-the-people-can-have?r=r3mwa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

18/06/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSxogSLDqSw&t=13sT Many thanks to the great Karen E. Osborne!

For more on R. Lee visit https://rleeprocter.wordpress.com/For more on Karen:Website: https://www.kareneosborne.com Facebook: Karen E. Osborne AuthorInstagr...

14/06/2024

C'mon, Who is With Me?

7.8 million people have seen Jenny Nicholson’s four-hour YouTube presentation “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel.” The post has received 39,711 comments, and, as far …

29/05/2024

"Josh Gibson Will Dominate MLB's Record Book! (About Time!)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-stats-mlb-record-book-josh-gibson/
If you want to read the (true, novelized) story of Josh's greatest adventure in the Dominican Republic in 1937, check out "Sugarball" on Amazon (book and Audible)

01/04/2024

Did France's Pre-Eminent Impressionist Genius Design Yankee Stadium?!? Finally, the proof you've been waiting for!

"Claude Monet Designs Yankee Stadium - A Love Story" solves a mystery that has fascinated art aficionados and baseball fans for a hundred years. You'll discover the astonishing-but-true story, and what happened to 600 million dollars worth of concept art! You can find the truth at amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Claude-Monet-Designs-Yankee-Stadium/dp/B0CFYW9CNQ) and also at Audible (https://www.audible.com/pd/Claude-Monet-Designs-Yankee-Stadium-Audiobook/B0CFYTM9ZY)

16/01/2024

Thank You, Karen E. Osbourne for Hosting Me on Your YouTube Show! (Up Now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjA7q5CYD0M) What fun!

02/01/2024

Sugarball, the Podcast! Discover the "stranger than fiction" truth behind the novel-based-on-real-events! Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Cool Papa Bell have the greatest adventure in baseball history. MAYA GUICE interviews R. Lee Procter. Firing Squads! Political Intrigue! And the best players playing for their lives! It really happened! (You can read "Sugarball" and/or listen to it on Audible!)

09/12/2023

My Grateful Gift to Charles Dickens

“A Christmas Carol” is 180 years old…and it still holds us spellbound. Why? Because takes us on a narrative journey that delivers us to an ecstatic truth: even the worst of us can be redeemed. Even the most miserable souls can find happiness, and that happiness is just a revelation away. Scrooge’s revelation is that he can change—and he does, in an instant. He discovers that every day is a fresh opportunity to be kind, generous, and compassionate. Everyone he meets can be a friend. We are here to serve, to share, and to love.

I wrote “Sanity Clause” to bring Dickens into the modern day. The story asks the question, “Can a soulless billionaire/plutocrat find a soul? In the zero-sum scrum that is free market capitalism, is it crazy to be generous? Is it ever too late to redeem the loveless life of a selfish, greedy narcissist?”

The protagonist is Magnus “Killer” Diller, a ruthless real estate developer. Diller is trying to unload his portfolio of shopping malls for 700 million dollars. One mall is bleeding money, holding up the deal. His associates urge him to unload it, but he insists on going undercover to root out the conspiracy of tenants he believes are trying to steal it from him. And what better way to uncover this conspiracy than by going undercover, and becoming the mall Santa?

He quickly discovers two things. first, he’s the world’s worst Santa. Second, the mall’s “Cookie Lady” is the kind, generous, lovely woman he’s dreamed of. Will she speak to him when she discovers he’s not who he pretends to be, and he’s trying to put her cookie shop out of business?

My goal was to write a comic novel with as radical a character arc as that of Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol,” and to do it in as many words (28,000). Magnus “Killer” Diller is a malevolent, greedy, and ruthless sociopath. By the end of the story, he’s generous, compassionate, and—importantly—happy. Like Scrooge, he has to (almost) die to live. The most hopeless case can find hope, and the most irredeemable souls can be redeemed. That’s a message we’ve been telling ourselves for 180 years, and here’s a new version for the 21st century.

07/12/2023

"Sanity Clause" On Sale Today! https://www.amazon.com/Sanity-Clause-Humorous-Holiday-Romance/dp/1685133339
Sick and tired of "It's a Wonderful Life"? Looking for a comic update on Dickens? Ready for a tale where the power of love one-ups the love of power? "Sanity Clause" asks (and answers) the question, "Do you have to be crazy to be generous?"

Magnus “Killer” Diller is a ruthless real estate developer trying to unload his portfolio of shopping malls. One mall is bleeding money, holding up the deal. His associates urge him to unload it, but he insists on going undercover to root out the conspiracy of tenants trying to steal it from him. What better way to uncover this conspiracy than by becoming the mall Santa? He quickly discovers two things: he’s the world’s worst Santa, and the mall’s “Cookie Lady” is the kind, generous, lovely woman he’s dreamed of. Will she speak to him when she discovers he’s trying to put her cookie shop out of business?

A great read. A great gift. And EXACTLY as long as "A Crhistmas Carol" (28,000 words)

Sanity Clause: A Humorous Holiday Romance