James D. McCallister

author of the Edgewater County series

ELVIS Book Event!

That’s right—it’s an honest-to-jiminy book launch for a Mind Harvest Press title by James D. McCallister!

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Lamenting the Loss of a Precious Companion After a long, stable period with our beloved nineteen year-old cat Reuben, we woke this morning to discover him feeling quite unwell, the worst we’d yet seen. The last year has been difficult, as he began suffering multiple health problems, all of which he seemed to come through […]

Quote of the Day

Our culture is dead, and like all zombies it cannibalises its own past forms, in our case the cultural world of the 1980s which our civilisation replays, in increasingly degraded forms, over and over again, creating a nightmarish pastiche of the world we departed four decades ago. From the pop music of The Weeknd and Taylor Swift, to The […]

Cover Reveal: The Night I Prayed to Elvis

Author Thrilled to Present Long-Gestating Story Collection Much more to say on these stories later, but for now, here’s the cover (and here, posts from the past regarding this material. These characters and situations are “near and dear” to the heart around the bustling world HQ of venerable Mind Harvest Press, so knowing the work […]

Quote of the Day

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they* don’t have to worry about the answers.” —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow *THEY = The Hierarchy Enslaving You

If You See Her, Say Hello

Another Lament for a Lost Loved One Those of you who have frequented this blog long enough to have read this harrowing post, or my novel Mansion of High Ghosts, may recall of the terrible tragedy which befell the occupants of my automobile way back in 1987. This remains the singular life-changing event of my […]

Quote of the Day

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, […]

Quote of the Day: Herman Hesse

Ironically Unreal Once Forever: Poetry

Local Author Rolls Out His First Poetry Collection Back in 2019, I reached a personal creative crossroads. (In some ways I’m still not far beyond that point.) The third in the Dixiana series had been finished, edited and final-proofed; I dropped all three big novels on the world that year, a seasonal effort, one which […]

Peace, Rhododendron

Indie Publisher and Local Author Celebrates Release of New Poetry Collection Mind Harvest Press is thrilled to present Peace, Rhododendron, the first collection of poetry by Elizabeth Leverton. A Columba, SC, all-around artist, Leverton paints (that’s her work on the cover), she writes, she edits, she’s a graphic designer. All of us here at the […]