James D. McCallister

author of the Edgewater County series

Enough With the AI Scams

A brief post from an indie author who has had had it with the AI come-ons from grifters and scammers. When you first start getting the emails, you think—if you’re smart—this all seems too good to be true: a reach-out from a “senior editor” or “editor in chief” of a major publisher. These scammer emails […]

ELVIS Book Event!

That’s right—it’s an honest-to-jiminy book launch for a Mind Harvest Press title by James D. McCallister!

Quote of the Day

Our culture is dead, and like all zombies it cannibalises its own past forms, in our case the cultural world of the 1980s which our civilisation replays, in increasingly degraded forms, over and over again, creating a nightmarish pastiche of the world we departed four decades ago. From the pop music of The Weeknd and Taylor Swift, to The […]

Cover Reveal: The Night I Prayed to Elvis

Author Thrilled to Present Long-Gestating Story Collection Much more to say on these stories later, but for now, here’s the cover (and here, posts from the past regarding this material. These characters and situations are “near and dear” to the heart around the bustling world HQ of venerable Mind Harvest Press, so knowing the work […]

Quote of the Day

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, […]

Quote of the Day: Herman Hesse

Ironically Unreal Once Forever: Poetry

Local Author Rolls Out His First Poetry Collection Back in 2019, I reached a personal creative crossroads. (In some ways I’m still not far beyond that point.) The third in the Dixiana series had been finished, edited and final-proofed; I dropped all three big novels on the world that year, a seasonal effort, one which […]

Peace, Rhododendron

Indie Publisher and Local Author Celebrates Release of New Poetry Collection Mind Harvest Press is thrilled to present Peace, Rhododendron, the first collection of poetry by Elizabeth Leverton. A Columba, SC, all-around artist, Leverton paints (that’s her work on the cover), she writes, she edits, she’s a graphic designer. All of us here at the […]

Quote of the Day

As man conducts his affairs, he goes on living in view of his orientation, of the repertory of his convictions, and all his acts—and, therefore, his whole life—will, in the case of fictitious orientation, be themselves fictitious. And, in fact, if you analyze your own situation, you will note that the type of orientation in […]

My Writing Journey, Pt 7: I Grieve These Enormous Endings

Local Author Ponders Completion of a Life Project The title of this piece, a snatch of phrase taken from my poet’s notebook, popped in my head one day and I wrote it down. That’s what a writer does. A wise one, anyway.