Expanded Bio Notes - The Road We've Traveled and the Road Ahead

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 (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 (Innovative novel (Published by Mannequin Haus))

2020 and beyond

Rocky-Fog of Delision (novel) begun May 2019 completed Feb. 2020. 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).
People Alone (novel) begun 2/13/20. Completion date TBD.
And, further on: seeking the future (don't know why though 'cause it'll get here anyhows!)