Here’s the full, 4,000 word version of ‘Trailer Trash,’ my short story honored by being selected by both the Petigru Review, as well as the Saturday Evening Post in its 2012 Short Fiction contest, the disqualification of which is described here. This is one of a series of ‘Stories of Adolescence’ set in my fictional […]
I sit waiting tonight on an answer regarding what could be my most significant short story publication yet: a lovely little sepia-toned autobiographical piece I wrote called “Trailer Trash,” about a grandfather and his cronies conspiring to arrange a young man’s first brush with manual labor, was named a finalist in the 2012 Saturday Evening Post Short […]
Here’s an interview promoting Fellow Traveler that I did on WUSC last week. Don McCallister WUSC Interview
With all the work I have in the can and also on a low simmer, I’ve decided to ‘knock off’ a quick screenplay adaption of my novel MS, DOGS OF PARSONS HOLLOW. The damn thing was designed to have that sort of cinematic appeal, so why not? If not me, who? If not now, when? […]
As the process of selling DOGS OF PARSONS HOLLOW moves along, I will make occasional posts about working with my agent and future editors on bringing this novel to its ultimate published life.
What a week—first the book release of FT, and then the momentous news that I’ve been signed by the enthusiastic Michelle Johnson of the Corvisiero Literary Agency, who says that DOGS OF PARSONS HOLLOW is suspenseful, accomplished, and eminently sellable. Well now! No more encouraging words have been said to this writer, one who’s worked […]
It’s here—tonight Fellow Traveler is officially launched! What a long time from its original inception in October 2000 to this happy occasion; what a terribly accomplished feeling to get this particular book into print. Twenty-seven years since my first Grateful Dead concert, and 17 since Jerry Garcia died, I now have a measure of closure […]
My trip to the 2012 edition of the SC Writer’s Workshop conference on October 19 turned out to be a banner day—for winning 2nd place in the Novel–First Chapter category, I received as a prize a complimentary 30–page extended critique from the faculty member of my choice. Sweet! Besides Fellow Traveler, which is already in […]
(Originally published in Free Times, Columbia, SC, January 2011) The swinging, heady San Francisco scene of the 1960s remains a long, strange distance from the bucolic conservatism of a place like South Carolina, but in a weird brand of cosmic irony, Columbia now has an important, tangible link to those flower-child days of yore: Former […]
With this piece of key art now (almost) in place, the time is here for Fellow Traveler! Once my revamped website goes live, there will be content aplenty that explains the origins, themes, and long gestation period of this very personal novel ‘of the grateful dead‘ that is being published on November 1, with pre-orders but already live and shipping […]
