Watch the Music Video Book Trailer!

Here is the Music Video Book Trailer video for "The Lost Calendar of the Maya"!

Watch it with your speakers cranked up!

After you watch it, go to Kindle or Nook to order your copy of "The Lost Calendar of the Maya".

By the author of "Holiday in Havana" and "The Lost Ark of the Incas", Malcom Massey.

5 Reasons Why Readers Recommend This Book

Avid fans of my action adventure novel series have offered a variety of reasons for why they like my latest novel "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan". In case you have have not read it yet, here are the 5 top reasons readers recommend this book,listed  in no particular order.

1. 2012. This novel is set in the year 2012, and has as a backdrop the 2012 phenomenon regarding the Mayan calendar and the Mayan Prophecies. If you are curious about what 2012 is all about, this novel is a MUST READ!

2. Mexico. The setting for this movie is the Yucatan of Mexico. For readers who do not know the Yucatan, this book is a chance to get a feel for this area (where I lived for a year and a half while writing the book). For readers who already know the Yucatan, the book offers glimpses of places they are familiar with from their visits or from living there.

3. Intelligent female characters. Contrary to the genre of action adventure novels in general, this novel features intelligent, action-oriented female characters who often out-think the men. Two new female characters are introduced in this novel, who interact with two strong, established female characters already active in this novel series. The two new female characters have been well-received, although unfortunately, only one of them will be returning in future novels.

4. Well-researched. Little known facts about the Mayan calendar, other calendars worldwide, the Mayan Prophecies, other ancient cultures of Mexico, the Cold War space program, the CIA in Europe, archaeological observatories, the threat to Earth from comets and meteors past and present and...whew, the international antiquities black market funding of terrorist groups: it's all here.

5. Good Clean Reading. In an age when everything we read seems to be taken to the lowest level possible, the plot and characters of this novel and the others in The Martin Culver Series are driven by the values of friendship, family, doing the right thing, and the good guys still win. Mostly.

So if you have not read "The Lost Calendar of the Maya" yet, get it on Kindle or Nook today!  To preview the Book Trailer for "The Lost Calendar of the Maya" click here.

Then leave a comment to let other readers know what you liked about this novel!

"The Astronomy of the Maya Calendar"

      A new feature has been added to the Author Meet and Greet event in Norfolk, VA.  

Based on the research that went into his latest novel "The Lost Calendar of the Maya", Local Author Malcom Massey will present a talk on "The Astronomy of the Maya Calendar" at 4:30 PM.  This event is free and open to the public, and will be held at the Mary D. Pretlow Library in Ocean View.

If you or your friends are interested in the Maya Calendar and the 2012 Mayan prophecies, you will not want to miss this informative event.

 

Amazon Kindle Outsells Nook - Again?

Amazon Kindle sells more Martin Culver action adventure novels than Barnes and Noble Nook again this month, by a margin of 45 to 1!

So I am curious. Why is that true? Are Kindle owners more inclined to read adventure? Are Nook owners just not interested in exciting, well-written stories? Does the share feature on Nook extend so far that one Nook sale gets passed around 40 to 50 times?

It is hard to understand. If you have not read "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan", go to Amazon.com today and get it. Because Amazon apparently leads the way. (Don't forget to sign in to your Amazon.com account for the lowest price of $4.99)

Scenes from the Book!

        Last week we traveled to Chichen-Itza and stayed at the Hacienda Chichen, the actual hacienda mentioned in "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan". This hacienda is right next to the Chichen-Itza archaeological zone, so close that we could see the Caracol observatory from our breakfast table.  Our cottage was built by Edward Thompson, a former private owner of the Hacienda Chichen. After checking in we walked approximately 300 meters from our cottage to the back entrance to the Chichen-Itza ruins.



     The West Gate of the Chichen-Itza property has a new feature, as Old Chichen, Chichen Viejo, the old city of Chichen, has been discovered to have had walls around it and four stone Mayan Arch gates at each of the cardinal points, north, east, west and south. The West Gate is the only one that has been restored so far. We met our guide and began our tour of  places at Chichen-Itza that are mentioned in "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan".

   
Of course the most impressive site at Chichen-Itza is El Castillo, as it was called by the Spanish, or the Temple of Kukulkan as it was known to the Maya. This is the massive temple in the center of the property that has the famous Equinox snake-shadow which decends the stairs to touch the earth and then re-ascends again.  This structure is much more impressive to see in person than you might imagine.

I then could hardly wait to get to the Temple of the High Priest and the Mysterious Round Structure in front of it, as these two ruins represented a pivotal scene in the book. Every detail is just as I had described it, the right distances, angles, etc. It gave me an eerie feeling to be standing in one of the most exciting scenes of "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: The Return of Kukulkan", as if the characters would come running down the steps of the pyramid at any moment!

If you have not read this exciting fiction novel yet, go to Amazon.com and order it today. Other readers have found it to be exciting, the best in the series, and well worth their time for a great action adventure. Order yours today!                                                                                                        

The Story behind the Video Trailer

"Exciting video! Awesome trailer! What is that picture? What is that song? How does it connect with your new book?"

These are some of the comments that are pouring in about the new video trailer for "The Lost Calendar of the Maya: the Return of Kukulkan", the latest fiction novel from Malcom Masssey in the Martin Culver action adventure series.

To help explain, I will post an update on this blog every day that will take one or more of the slides that appear in the video and explain how they are connected with the storyline. If you want to catch the whole story, subscribe to this blog or follow it and you will get each background story as it is published.

Here is the first slide and video background update, and below it is the video link if you have not seen it yet.

The first slide shows the last Mayan Jaguar Throne to be found at Chichen-Itza, found under the El Castillo four-sided pyramid also known as the Temple of Kukulkan. Are there more Mayan treasures to be found at Chichen-Itza?  Is the Jaguar one of the forms that Kukulkan will take, assuming Kukulkan returns to Earth in 2012 as the Mayans prophesied?

See it in the video trailer for the new fiction novel "The Lost Calendar of the Maya" below.

Thanks for watching and be sure and order your copy of "The Lost Calendar of the Maya" today.