James D. McCallister

author of the Edgewater County series

MoHG Covers Evolve

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 […]

MoHG Looking Spiffy

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.

The Night I Prayed to Elvis

Here’s the title story from an upcoming collection of linked stories. It’s more about nostalgia, mood, memory and tone than any deep literary insights or big moments. This material is from much earlier on my writer’s journey, nearly 20 years, and often reads that way. The Night I Prayed to Elvis The war with Daddy […]

DIXIANA Series Now Cheap for Kindle!

Sure, the world is in a crisis and everyone’s scrambling. That includes your favorite son of Edgewater County. To this end, I’ve now priced the three volumes of the Dixiana series—that’s Dixiana, Down in Dixiana, and Dixiana Darling—at only $2.99 for your Kindle reading devices. Click through above or below to take advantage! Here’s the […]

FEINT of Heart

I HAD TO BE REMINDED about meeting the late attorney, and now author, Michael G. Sullivan. They tell me we talked writing, maybe five or ten minutes. They say I encouraged him best I could; they say a special dream of his had been to see a novel make its way into print, a long-held […]

DIXIANA DARLING Arrives!

It’s here. The moment of completion, while it has taken many forms throughout this final Dixiana unfoldment in 2019, doesn’t come more definitive than publication day of the third of three, 11-11-19. My long gestating literary epic is fully birthed into the world. It’s here. Enjoy, folks. No telling what folks will make of this interesting […]

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.

Nice Press for DIXIANA

Got a nice, albeit brief, slot on the local Good Morning show this week. Handling press appearances is second nature at this point—I have been on both sides of the equation, as interviewer and interviewee—but sitting in front of the lights with Dixiana and Down in Dixiana propped on their little bookstands made me realize that […]

DIXIANA Events Begin

It’s a long year ahead of Mind Harvest Press book releases and roll-outs, but for local readers here in Columbia, SC, the first Dixiana signing and discussion comes this week.

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 […]