Jack M. Thunderbird

Jack M. Thunderbird (b. 27 April, 1960) is the pen name of Armando Aceituno M., writer, self-educated pedagogist and founder of Omeraldi International, the first digital publishing house of Central America.

Born to a Guatemalan woman and a Garifuna man in Tela, Honduras, he has written more than forty works including textbooks, computer manuals, stage plays, poetry, short stories, novels and screenplays. Married to Landy Maria Barrera in 1980 and divorced in 1991, he currently lives with his second wife and their two children.

He is also a motivational speaker, with most of his conferences emphasizing the fact that anyone can achieve whatsoever he or she so desires. As of January 2007, he had conducted more than 650 conferences and workshops on a variety of subjects.

Aceituno is the author of the Real English Power program, the first EFL and ESL home-study system to include digital books and videodiscs. He is said to be currently working on three of his next novels.Many of his poems have been published in the United States and Europe by various publishing houses and the New York-based International Society of Poetry.

"Business English and Conversation", one of the few works he has published under his own name, was used at hundreds of schools in Latin America in the mid 1990's. It is still distributed through on-line bookstores, including Amazon.com. His latest book, "No todas las Prisiones tienen Paredes" (Not all Prisons have Walls) is an open-hearted close examination of all those psychological traumas that human beings acquire in early life and which shape what and who they will one day be. It includes such delicate topics as cruelty to animals, violence, pornography, theft, and others.

Published works

= EFL Textbooks =

*(1992) "Commercial English Course 1, 2"
*(1993) "Freedom 1, 2, 3"
*(1994) "Better English Today 1-3"
*(1995) "Bilingual Dictionary English/Spanish"
*(1995) "Exercises in English Literature"
*(1996) "English Magic 1-6"
*(2000) "Business English and Conversation "
*(2004) "Make it Easy, Make it fun"
*(2005) "Real English Power"
*(2006) "Power Phrases"
*(2006) "Shorthand Power"
*(2007) "English Success"

Computer books

*(1993) "Windows Manual Autodidactico"
*(1994) "Manual de Quattro Pro"
*(1995) "El ABC de la Computacion"
*(2006) "Internet al Maximo"

Motivational books

*(2006) "Que huyan otros, Yo no soy del monton"
*(2007) "No Todas las Prisiones Tienen Paredes"

Books of Poetry

*(1997) "Time and after time"
*(2001) "To all the Ones and Only"
*(2002) "Sometimes i feel like Writing"
*(2003) "En las Alas de un Angel"
*(2004) "Poemas de Todos y de Nadie"
*(2006) "Tu madre... merece mi respeto"

Stage plays

*"For I have become Death"
*"The son and I"
*"Satan, where the hell are you going?"
*"La Bella es una Bestia"
*"Lo que el Viento Regreso"

Screenplays

*"Shadows in the dark"
*"After the Seventh Thunder"

Novels

*"Mas Libre que el Viento"
*"Free, for ever free" (out of print)
*"Outdoing Ronald"
*"Tuercas y Arrecifes"