James D. McCallister

author of the Edgewater County series

Seasonal Catch-Up Post

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Where hath the year gone? And why haven’t I been blogging about Dixiana (or anything)? Answers await. But first, a little story about today, 10/23.

Spring Creative Writing Workshop in May

This year marks a full decade of teaching various writing workshops at Midlands Tech here in Columbia. This fine personal milestone will be added to my bio from here to the far, dusty corners of my internet author presence.

DIXIANA Rollout Continues

Nobody asked for a sexy, character-driven, neo-Southern Gothic novel series, but here it is. Adultery, murder and magic in the modern day Deep South. There’s the sell.  Spring 2019 finds the editorial staff at Mind Harvest Press cheerful and deep in the third quarter of the final proofing of the Dixiana series, now rolling out […]

Because You Demanded It

That’s right, the Dixiana “ebook episodes” will get a paperback edition as well.

Dearest DIXIANA

As Dixiana’s “ebook episodes” roll out on the Kindle platform, this charming love letter from the spring of 2015 felt worth a re-post.

Upcoming Author Events!

Need a signed book, either for yourself or as a holiday gift? Lots of opportunities over the next few weeks here in the midlands of South Carolina.

Mind Harvest Press in the News!

Always a friend to my writing career and other endeavors, this week longtime local alt weekly Free Times printed a few kind words about my small publishing company and our first release from another author.

DIXIANA Preview: The Fourth Chapter

In this fourth Dixiana preview installment, here at last is one of our favorite characters, Button Sykes. She’s pretty out there, sure—besides a heady past of drugs and Phish tour, what hasn’t she looked into in terms of esoterica and occult philosophy? But hey, her heart is in the right place—she serves her family, including […]

DIXIANA Preview: The Third Chapter

And now, we meet the lovely wife of our protagonist Roy E. Pettus, Chelsea Colette “Creedence” Rucker-Pettus. While he flies home to attend to his grandfather, Creedence is left behind on tony Sedge Island to stew in her juices over the unpleasant secret Roy uncovered right before getting the call from Edgewater County. Disclaimer: adult […]

Remembering Dr. Franklin B. Ashley

In 1986, I burned with desire but didn’t know if I could be a writer. Without feedback on my adolescent attempts at storytelling, I was shouting into a well. And while I dreamed of being a great novelist, I was also obsessed with movies, and thought it might be easier to become a screenwriter than […]