Expanded Bio Notes – Jim Meirose –

The Road traveled,
and the Road Ahead:

(click here for complete bibliography)

1980s-Time of learning: 

• 10-15 stories pub’d
  

1990s-Time of apprenticeship: 

• 25-30 stories pub’d
  

 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 - Inferno(Exp Novella - Underground Voices Pub. - avail Amazon)

 2017 – 2019 – Mature Voice Takes Charge --New Work Completed and Available for Pub.

• 2018 -- Dans l'odeur de la sainteté (to be shelved after current submissions replied to (2020))
• 2018 – Audio Bookies (Same as Above)
• 2019 – No and Maybe – Maybe and No (Same as Above)

 2019 - Present - Finally : Growth Continues (and will continue forever)

• 2019 – Le Overgivers au Club de la Résurrection ((Published by Mannequin Haus - avail Amazon))
  

​2020 and beyond

• No and Maybe - Maybe and No (Novel) published by Pski's Porch (summer 2020)
  
• Audio Bookies (Novel)Agreement reached - Publisher TBA - Release Date TBD
  
• Rocky-Fog of Delision (novel) completed 2/13/20. Seeking publisher.
• Writing no further stand-alone shorts. Novels only.  
• Old novels to be shelved after all current submissions responded to. No resubmissions.
  
• Selected existing short texts will still be resubmitted until taken).
  
• JungleSwamp (novel) completed 10/16/20. Seeking Publisher.
  
• And, further on: seeking the future (don't know why though 'cause it'll get here anyhows!)