The Adventures of Jome - This is the original!  Started when I was about twelve, I expanded to maybe five short stories, some that didn’t include Jome at all but that still were a part of the ‘Jome’ world in my young mind.  In high school I scrapped everything but the stories about Jome, rewrote them completely and doubled their length.    I also wrote a few new stories bringing the total back up to five.  Later, after college and getting married, I picked Jome up again and rewrote the original five, doubled their length again, and wrote five new stories, which I now viewed as chapters in a manuscript.  I gave the completed set to my wife to edit and review.  She tore them apart and I spent the better part of a year trying to get them to meet her approval.  The final work is still horribly juvenile in many aspects, but it creates a world that I’ve been able to mature and build upon.  The fantastic elements you must credit to its childhood origins.  The existing chapter headings for the first half go to my high school years, and the later five to my work as a young adult that ultimately completed it.

The Next Adventures of Jome - I immediately began working a on sequel, roughly laying out four sequels to be exact.  You’ll see them all listed here.  There are two others that have subsequently been planned.  I’ve never gotten through more than a few chapters on the third installment and most of the chapter headings for the rest.  This book is wildly different in that it introduces two new characters that I absolutely love.  I love them as much or than Ralf and Harry.  They are sort of a reversal of Ralf and Harry in a way...the angry shifty one being the subordinate animal and the big calm one being the human with the upper hand...maybe an unconscious twist of justice (or more likely my spinoff-style of creativity preferred to build upon the existing supporting characters.  A similar phenomenon can be spotted in the typical ‘female’ characters throughout the books.  There is always the waitress/stewardess/hostess girl who suffers emotionally at the thoughtless and often cruel treatment they receive from Jome.  The book also takes Jome into a darker place and thereby reflects its more adult origins.  And of course the whole thing takes place in the country verses the city, with Jome as a homeowner and not just a homeless guy with an unreasonably big box.

The Ralf and Harry Mysteries - This is where I’ve been stuck the last two years.  I’m maybe a third of the way into this book with some really great stuff down on paper but a long way from publishing.  I wish I could say that my current up-taking of the Jome cause would eventually lead to me finishing this book, but I highly doubt it.  With parenting, work, and school I’m pretty busy.  Plus I’m writing quite a bit each week for work and school and often the last thing I have in my system is anymore writing.  But enough about me, this book centers in Ralf and Harry and what they’re up to in the city while Jome is out in the country.  It really is almost a side series to the ‘The Adventures of Jome’ series.  It takes place at the same time as the second book described immediately above.  Each chapter is titled as a ‘case’, such as ‘The Case of the Fierce Tasting Pastry’...which I believe I realized to the public via an email at one point...or not.  I can’t remember.  I’ll probably put some of what I have completed from this book up on the site soon, just because it irks me so much to have some of these stories go unread for so long.

The Further Adventures of Jome - This is the book that I had hopes of publishing in 2008, a year that is, at the moment of this writing, over half over.  The ‘Further Adventures’ feature Jome as he is back in the Big City, living things out much in the same way as he did before we went to the country.  It’s the closest thing to what you could have expected as a sequel to the first book, if Jome hadn’t taken a hiatus to the Country and I as an author had not taken a hiatus to write about Ralf and Harry’s doings while he was gone).  I forget at the moment what Jome does in this book, but I think for at least one chapter Jome tries his hand at being a super-hero.  You can imagine how that could go...also other dynamics have changed...Jome has a great deal less resources.  This book is really the last book then chronologically.  The next material chronologically is Jome’s Blog which is written a few years later.  Jome has, by then, slipped a great deal further into dementia and homelessness.

The Lost Adventures of Jome - The ‘Lost Adventures’ are just that, an opportunity for me to write stories that fill in gaps within the existing story-line, address Jome’s childhood, and other questions that have formed over the years.  A couple of big ones that I get are ‘How did Jome get the Box out of the Sewer?’ and ‘Where did he get all those gold bars from?’  We’ll also see incidences referred to only in passing in other books fleshed out into full chapters (with their own maddening, unexplained references).  A good example of this is the pet pigeon that Jome had at one point, a Mr. Clean.  There is just a passing reference to Mr. Clean in the second book, but there will be a whole chapter on him and how Jome got him, etc. in this book.  Also, and I’ll write it here because I’m not sure where else to write it, I was thinking of doing a whole book on Jome’s childhood, ‘The Childhood Adventures of Jome’.  If I ever get to it that would be the sixth book.  Then the seventh would be a compilation of all of the ‘extra’ material that is found on this site (the short stories, Jome’s Blog, etc.).  Also, one of the last things I did before leaving Jome alone for a while was to try and write a book where Jome was the author.  A children’s book no less.  It was going to be way, way too violent for a children’s book, which of course, is perfect.

Jome Goes Shopping - Wanting to bring Jome more to life for people I thought it would be cool to illustrate on of the existing chapters, and I was wright, it was cool.  It gave me a lot more imagery to work with in promoting Jome as well.  While not an artistic masterpiece, my photoshopping of my plane jane pencil drawings make for a cool, artsy book.  Part of me imagines myself illustrating every chapter of every book and then someday compiling all of them into this giant mega work entitled ‘The Complete Adventures of Jome.’  It would be sweet, and it would probably really anger everyone who had gone to all of the work to buy all of the material individually over the years.  Now they’d have to get another thing that just replicated everything in a new formate.  And to combat any holdouts I’d probably introduce new material only available in this work, just t force their hand.  ‘Cause that’s how I roll.