R.M. Almonte – The Author Who Turned Dreams Into a Publishing Empire

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R.M. Almonte’s story doesn’t begin in a classroom or a writing workshop. It begins in a crack-ridden neighborhood in New York, where survival was an everyday calculation and the future was something most kids never planned for. A sixth-grade teacher once told him he wouldn’t make it to eighteen. The odds agreed.

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Today, Ramon Manuel Almonte — publishing as R.M. Almonte — is a Dominican-American author, speaker, and founder of R.M. Almonte Publishing/ Media, a traditional publishing house specializing in metaphysical and science fiction. His work blends the imagination of genre fiction with the rawness of lived truth, drawing on real-world dream phenomena, contact experiences, and personal transformation. His voice is now being heard on some of the most respected broadcast platforms in the paranormal and metaphysical space — not because a publicist engineered it, but because the story resonates.

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From Warnings to Waypoints

Almonte grew up in an environment shaped by poverty, divorce, and a rough neighborhood. He remembers playing with crack vials in the park, seeing the drug dealers' aftermath in the street, and absorbing the quiet weight of his mother’s belief in dreams — her own and his. For him, dreams were never idle fantasies. They were vivid, recurring, and impossible to ignore — part warning, part instruction, part map.

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Those dreams became his compass.

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In 2002, after reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Almonte felt a pull he couldn’t explain. With $800 in his pocket, he spent 3 months in Japan, leaving the familiar chaos behind. There was no plan. No safety net. Just a feeling. That leap would shape the next twelve years of his life — years that deepened his global perspective, broadened his cultural lens, and gave him the discipline and vision to create his own path in literature. While in Japan, Almonte met with Kahn, a respected spiritual leader whose insight and perspective left a lasting mark on his journey.

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Building a World — And a Company

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When he returned to the United States, Almonte began to write with intent — not to impress, but to make sense of what was happening inside him. His early stories were rooted in his dreams, his lived experiences, the world he grew up in as a young man, and the bonds he formed with people along the way — connections that often led him down unexpected paths. Drawing from his research into ufology and his lifelong love of science fiction television — from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to Stargate SG-1 and numerous other series — he realized he was walking the path that had been calling to him all along. Readers began reaching out with a common refrain: “Absolutely love this series! I read the 1st book all in one day, I just couldn't put it down. This is the sci-fi/ spiritual story I have been waiting for!”

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Refusing to wait for permission from traditional publishing’s gatekeepers, Almonte founded R.M. Almonte Publishing/ Media — not as a vanity project, but as a fully functioning traditional publishing house with distribution, editorial standards, and a growing catalog. His own books became the flagship titles, and over time, he sold more than 14,000 copies — reaching readers in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.

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His bibliography includes Scratching the Cosmic Conscious and the United Earth Series (Rough Beginning, Exile, Despair & Hope). Four more books are in development: Fogs of Time, United Earth 4: Ashes of Tomorrow, United Earth 5: Scars of the Past, and United Earth 6 (working title). Each is infused with the emotional charge of real contact experiences, symbolic dream imagery, and the metaphysical questions that have followed him since childhood.

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A Life Lived Outside the Expected Path

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By any measure, R.M. Almonte is rare. Most authors never publish a single book, and fewer than 0.01% go on to write seven or more. Even fewer own a fully operational traditional publishing house. But numbers only tell part of the story.

For twelve years, Almonte lived in Japan as a foreigner, navigating a culture far from the one he was born into. He’s skydived, earned his Open Water Diver certification, and become fluent in three languages. At 45, he taught himself blind touch typing. At 47, he learned to drive. He’s traveled to more than seven countries, co-hosted the radio program The Hundredth Monkey, and interviewed others with extraordinary experiences before joining them at the ECETI Conference — speaking, connecting, and sharing his own story. Along the way, he has handled media appearances, bookstore signings, and public speaking engagements with the same grounded presence that defines his writing.

Statistically, the overlap of these achievements is about one in 4.4 quintillion — but the real rarity lies in what they represent: a life lived beyond expectation, shaped by risk, curiosity, and the refusal to follow a predetermined script. It’s a perspective that informs every page he writes and every stage he steps onto.

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The Voice Behind the Mic

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Almonte is no stranger to broadcast media. He co-produced and hosted The Hundredth Monkey Radio Show from 2012 to 2015, has been a regular radio contributor since 1994, and has appeared on platforms including BBS Radio, ECETI Ranch, and other respected metaphysical programs.

 

In 2025, his reach expanded to two of the most influential shows in the paranormal and metaphysical world:

• Paranormal 60 with Dave Schrader (July 28, 2025) — a live, high-engagement conversation exploring dreamwork, contact experiences, trauma, and transformation. Schrader described him this way:

“What if your dreams weren’t just dreams? What if the beings you saw, the voices you heard, the places you traveled while sleeping — what if they were all real? For R.M. Almonte, those questions weren’t just musings. They shaped a life.” – Dave Schrader, Paranormal 60

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• Coast to Coast AM with Rich Berra (scheduled for August 2, 2025) — a prime-time, two-hour segment on one of the most iconic broadcast platforms in history. The show recognized him as:

“A rising star in metaphysical sci-fi.” – Coast to Coast AM

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These appearances weren’t engineered by PR campaigns. They were earned through resonance — proof that when he speaks, audiences connect.

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Looking Ahead

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For R.M. Almonte, the work is about more than writing books — it’s about channeling the totality of his life into stories that bridge the seen and unseen. Every leap he’s taken — from leaving New York for Japan with $800, to meeting spiritual leaders, to skydiving and diving into the depths of the ocean, to navigating multiple languages and cultures — becomes raw material for the universes he builds on the page.

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His metaphysical science fiction is not created in isolation; it’s an alchemy of lived adventure, research into ufology, deep study of metaphysics, and the emotional truths found in human connection. In his novels, readers encounter echoes of the people he’s met, the places he’s traveled, the dreams that have guided him, and the contact experiences that have altered his understanding of reality. These aren’t just imagined worlds — they’re extensions of a lifetime spent testing the boundaries of the possible.

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The next chapters — both in life and in print — will push those boundaries even further. Whether through the pages of his novels, the expanding reach of R.M. Almonte Publishing/Media, or the microphone of a national broadcast, Almonte remains committed to the principle that has guided him from the very start:

“Tell the truth. Even when it’s strange. Especially when it’s strange.”