James D. McCallister

author of the Edgewater County series

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 […]

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 […]

DIXIANA Preview: The Second Chapter

Here, we meet the grandfather to whom fruitshake millionaire and heartbroken cuckold Roy E. Pettus flies under duress in chapter one. Full text of Dixiana Book One: Dirt Surfer will pop on Amazon KDP in the next couple of weeks.