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 (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))

2020 and beyond

Rocky-Fog of Delision (novel) to be completed March 2020. Big step forward past anything earler.
And, further on: seeking the future (don't know why though 'cause it'll get here anyhows!)