James D. McCallister

author of the Edgewater County series

UPDATED: Simultaneous Submissions: An Embarrassment of Riches a/k/a Be Careful!

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 […]

WUSC Interview, November 1, 2012

Here’s an interview promoting Fellow Traveler that I did on WUSC last week. Don McCallister WUSC Interview

SIGNED! and Future Projects

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 […]

FT Launch Event Tonight!

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 […]

FELLOW TRAVELER is here!

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 […]

Summer’s Come and Gone

Summer 2012, a season of writing: Following a terrific SC Book Festival in May, I launched into the writing of Novel 2012, whose actual title is LET THE GLORY PASS AWAY, and here in mid-August—not actually the end of summer, but the beginning of back to school season certainly feels that way—I find that I […]