Expanded Bio Notes – Jim Meirose –
The Road traveled,
and the Road Ahead:
1980s-Time of learning:
1990s-Time of apprenticeship:
2000s-Time of apprenticeship (cont’d)
- Breakfast, Meat, and Other Stories (collection – out of print - Beginner work – learning work)
- Claire (Novel – avail on Amazon - Exp novel – still holds up – chapter listed in O’Henry Anth.)
- 100-110 stories pub’d.
2010s-Gaining Maturity – Finding Voice/Direction
- 2013 -- Monkey (early exp novel – out of print – stands up today)
- 2014 -- Freddie Mason’s Wake (early exp novel – out of print – stands up today)
- 2015 – Mount Everest (straight lit novel – good but rather pedestrian – avail today)
- 2016 – Eli the Rat (exp/straight lit novel – better than Everest, but--meh. Avail today)
2016-2017 - Abrupt Leap Forward – Current Voice/Facility surfacing intermittently – *
- 2017 – Understanding Franklin Thompson (Exp Novel – JEF published – avail amazon)
- 2018 – Sunday Dinner With Father Dwyer (Exp Novel – Optional Books pub’d – avail Amazon
2017 – 2019 – Mature Voice Takes Charge --New Work Completed and Available for Pub.
- 2018 -- Dans l'odeur de la sainteté (Inn Novel – (avail for pub (excerpts published in various lit mags)
- 2018 – Audio Bookies (Innovative novel – (seeking pub (excerpts published in various lit mags)
- 2019 – No and Maybe – Maybe and No (Innovative novel – (seeking pub (excerpts published in various lit mags)
2019 - Present - Finally : Growth Continues (and will continue forever)
- 2019 – Work in Progress – Rocky-Fog of Delision (Innovative novel – (will seek pub late 2019 (excerpts already published in various lit mags)))
- 2019 – Le Overgivers au Club de la Résurrection (Innovative novel (Published by Mannequin Haus))
- And : from 2010 to present, approx. 260 pieces published in various lit. magazines.
- And, further on: seeking the future (don't know why though 'cause it'll get here anyhows!)
Milestone Reached on 7/2/19 - (pretty cool, actually!) 400+ pieces (various lengths and types) published since 1988!