New Emperor Leopaldo Story

seilerjp · May 15, 2013

After a 4.5 year hiatus, I have just completed two stories in the Emperor Leopaldo Saga which is devoted to pipe Collecting/Pipe Smoking & SF. The first story "The Proposal" has been posted on my website. The second story "The Medal" should appear soon.
My website is located here: http://mysite.verizon.net/seilerjp/
Feedback is always appreciated. There is a button on the bottom of the page to send me email

kcghost · May 15, 2013

For those of you who haven't read the Emperor Leopaldo stories you are missing a real treat. Just about everyone other than 3-4 of the recurring characters in the stories is a veiled or not so veiled reference to the pipe world of today.

kashmir · May 15, 2013

Wow! These are great stories. Just finished reading Satisfaction, the first of the series, and I'm hooked. Will download the remainder, and anticipate a fine ride. I loved Regis McCaffert's pipe-centric Joshua Pitt stories. And yours are even more pipe-centric! Any thought to publishing the entire set in hard copy? In the meantime, many thanks for providing these as downloadable PDFs. Kudos to you sir for your fine writing style - a gift to the entire pipe smoking community, although I suspect they'd be of interest to non pipe enthusiasts as well. Now, on to the next story in the series.

kashmir · May 15, 2013

Ah, the second story of the Tex-mebe was great!

I'm having a blast with the Emperor Leopaldo stories!

Perfect ending:
Paul asked, “But why were the pipe smokers not affected?”

Nick responded “Have you ever met a depressed pipe smoker?”

He winked, and left the room to continue his well-deserved vacation.
If you ever succeed in publishing these in hardcopy, the cover art should include an Old Earth pipe or one made of Krenellian B’iar, set against a Hubbell Space telescope image of the silver-purple gas nebulae.

daveinlax · May 15, 2013

Looking forward to reading the new story John! 8O

seilerjp · May 15, 2013

I have thought about if the stories had any commercial value and came to the conclusion that they did not. I wrote the stories to fill a hole I perceived in that there was no pipe & tobacco literature available for the pipe collector/pipe smoker. I write them to be satisfactory to one person, ME. KCghost hit the nail on the head. Some of the names have been changed to protect the guilty/innocent. I hope you find some usefull information on pipe smoking/collecting. Of course as the author, the stories follow my interests. Emperor Leopald definitely likes McClelland #5100, I wonder why?
Dave, You can see the Chicago meeting spurred me on. I enjoyed seeint your collection, it was Magnificent.

seilerjp · Jan 19, 2014

After a period of time, and now that I am 'retired' I have written a new Emperor Leopaldo Saga story. The story is entitled "Master Penman" and may be found on my website http://mysite.verizon.net/seilerjp/ . It will be on pipedia later this week. As usual, feedback is appreciated.

kcghost · Jan 19, 2014

This is an outstanding and John's inspiration for it came from a recent Brian Levine interview on his podcast. To me, this might be the best Leopaldo story ever.

seilerjp · Jan 21, 2014

The "Master Penman" story and a little short Sherlock Holmes story are also posted on Pipedia.

http://pipedia.org/wiki/John_Seiler

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