Welcome to my
Virtual Book Shelf

My name is Paul V Young and I am an Australian author.
On this site I will introduce you my own works, both fiction and non-fiction, now published as E-books.
I’ll also refer to the books and authors who have influenced me.

These are my E-Books available from Smashwords Publishing.

All the E-Book covers you see on this page were designed by Jeremy Taylor Cover Designs. For more about his work, visit:
http://www.jeremytaylor.eu/books/e-book-cover-designs-introduction/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
Paul Young was born in Melbourne, Australia, on the 17th March 1953.  After leaving school he spent a couple of years in the opal fields of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales, before moving his home base to Brisbane, Queensland.
 
His upbringing and education were along traditional Christian lines, yet from an early age he was drawn to mysticism and Eastern religions.  Initially this tendency manifested in his choice of reading materials and the poetry he wrote himself; increasingly it has become a focal point in practical life.  Paul belongs to the Rosicrucian Fraternity known as AMORC and holds a number of qualifications:

• Certified as a level III Reiki practitioner (2002)
  
• Certificate IV in Palliative Care and Conscious Dying (2003)
  
• Diploma of the Writing School Australia (2003)
  
• Certified TEFL English Teacher (2008)
  
• Certified Law of Attraction Practitioner (2014)
  
• Certified NLP Practitioner (2014)
  

 
Paul's first book, The Sign of The Quatrefoil, was written without any formal training, but at the end of 2003 he obtained his Diploma from The Writing School of Sydney, with the intention of producing further books and magazine articles.  In 2004 he self-published a novel titled ‘The Griffin in the Valley.’
 
A career in international trade and shipping has given him the opportunity to travel to many places in the world, and he has spent some years living and working in Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Thailand.  These days he is easing into retirement from the corporate world and concentrating on his investigations into the paranormal and esoteric writings, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between humankind and the Sun.

The Griffin in the Valley is also available in print, direct from Trafford Publishing or on Amazon Books. You might see it there with this cover:

 
A new monthly on-line magazine Australian Esoteric
edited by Paul V Young
is launched in June 2017.
Australian Esoteric.com