Thirty-Year Literary Journey Nears Culmination When I first sat down to try to write a novel steeped in the real tragedies I experienced, in the early 90s, I had neither the distance from the events, nor the writing chops. All that would change.
Author Shows You How Easy It Is For Him For anyone following the word-count on Shopkeep to the left on the home page, note that in the brief month of February, not yet complete, the count has tripled. That’s 20k scattered words now grown to 60k. In three weeks.
Same Black Line Drawn on Local Author Drawn on You Remember the 90s? Skateboarding home from school, getting stoned and making it with your girlfriend to the latest Pavement CD, then playing SimCity until dinnertime? Well, I don’t, but I did do my version of that in the early 80s. It’s the rock music of […]
Author Hits Key Numerological Milestone A quick post to let everyone know that Shopkeep’s daily word-count rests comfortably at 44,420. Sounds like a good stopping point for now; sounds like time for a refreshing break. At this rate I’ll have the draft in another month or so.
Author Reports from the Literary Trenches Following the completion of Dixiana and its sequels, I took a year off from ‘the chair,’ as Appalachian literary bard Ron Rash would term it, or at least the long-form sort as readers of my poetry saga will recall. I needed a break. The seven-year traverse in writing, editing and publishing […]
Bukowski Award-nominated Poet Unveils First Episode of New YouTube Poetry Jam The title and subhead say it all. As you will see, an enormous amount of work goes into a production like this. Enjoy ‘Altogether Positive Time Trip’. Altogether Positive Time Trip James D. McCallister In describing the profound plan my one-self sat by a […]
Author Cautions Key Art May Change As the subhead disclaimer indicates, the Mansion of High Ghosts covers will continue to evolve… but as of this writing, this key art is getting close. Still to be done is the trade paper version. Here’s the (evolving) flap copy: Where these folks are going, bless their hearts, they […]
