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 […]
The Original Edgewater County Novel Approaches Publication I’d be lying if I suggested I wasn’t tickled to finally bring Mansion of High Ghosts, legendary around these parts, to publication later in what will surely be the go-go summer of 21.
“There’s nothing you can hold for very long.” ~Robert Hunter I first encountered Wallace Douglas Dawson III a few months before we were formally introduced. We were the same age, on the same track—media arts—and so it happened that we shared one of the non-core classes all college students are expected to take: a modicum […]
Must-see Polish Drama Packs a Spiritual Wallop Streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel, Jan Komasa‘s Corpus Christi (in Polish: Boże Ciało) represents the sort of compelling character- and theme-driven drama that American cinema, even on its recent best day, seems incapable of contemplating, much less producing and distributing to a wide audience.
Yesterday was as hard as it gets for a lover of pets. Arthur would have been 16 this year. His last few months included worsening health challenges. We thought we were losing him back in August, in fact, but he bounced back to have a wonderful renaissance all through the autumn and into the new […]
Another short one for a sunny, cold Saturday as I head to work at the hippie shop.
A poem reflecting the attitude expressed in this prior post. Stylized Vision Traveling for sense where one privacy place verges through to the high shows never to happen Phoenix syllables in the maybe-here wait to cop what gone-books leech the given spring within him A time-lightning relationship Now has called the next […]
