Ask the Author: Jim Morris
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Jim Morris
I'm actually trying to create such a fictional book world. I'm irritated at how books on shamanism are treated by the publishing industry, by scattering them out among about five categories, anthro, New Age, Fantasy, blah-blah-blah. The great shamanic fiction such as Robin Rice's A Hundred Ways to Sunday get lost in the shuffle. I'm creating a website called ShamanLit to correct this. I'm also writing about a Cherokee/Toltec chaman named Dave Perry. The first book, A Battle of Sorcerers, is out there. I've finished book two, except for minor revisions, and am about 80 pages into book three.
Jim Morris
I seem to be on a tear, rereading The Corps by WEB Griffin. I also just bought a Tony Hillerman I somehow missed and a new book on the music scene in Laurel Canyon in the sixties.
Jim Morris
Nope. I never met Samir Geagea, though I wish I had. The highest ranking Kataibe official I met was Oubad Zwain. We're still Facebook friends.
Jim Morris
I think you can get SS from ABE books, and can order through Amazon. Glad you liked it.
I am, however, not in Ireland, and, in fact have never been to Ireland. I live in Woodland Hills CA, and if you move out here it would be great to see you again.
Thanks for checking in.
I am, however, not in Ireland, and, in fact have never been to Ireland. I live in Woodland Hills CA, and if you move out here it would be great to see you again.
Thanks for checking in.
Jim Morris
Nick and Nora Charles, because they remind me so much of my parents, Bill and Liz Morris.
Jim Morris
Sad to say I am not that Jim Morris. I think there are maybe six authors using that name, and I'm thinking of signing my books with my full name, James Franklin Morris, in the future, just to avoid that confusion.
Jim Morris
I'm currently writing a "spiritual memoir" that answers a lot of those questions, titled The Dreaming Circus. I'm also doing a complete Toltec recapitulation of my entire life, but it would have to be heavily edited to publish it. So far it's just for me, to gain perspective on my life. Maybe my kids will publish it after I'm gone.
But Dreaming Circus would be interesting to you. Hopefully it will be in print fairly soon.
But Dreaming Circus would be interesting to you. Hopefully it will be in print fairly soon.
Jim Morris
I didn't take it down. Had no idea it was. Sure, repost it. I'm delighted you want to,
Jim Morris
I sit down with a notebook. I can get up four pages or an hour later, whichever comes first. Very seldom I don't write something in that hour. It may be crap, but it's on the page, and it's something to change to something better.
Jim Morris
It's the ultimate in freedom. If you can make a living writing you can live where you want, work the hours you want. Everything you do counts as research. Writing is a very tough life, but there is nothing like it for freedom.
Jim Morris
If you don't have to write, it's too much trouble. If you do have to, don't let anything make you quit.
Jim Morris
I'm currently working on a spiritual memoir. I may or may not publish it. This is primarily a Toltec recapitulation exercise.
Jim Morris
From reading. As a kid I was always reading, and my idea of a cool adult was a writer, so that's what I set out to become.
Jim Morris
A friend, Julia Ross, mentioned that there were so many feds investigating the finances of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma that they had built them their own Holiday Inn. I found this hilarious. But for some years I'd been trying to write a modernized version of the Jesus story. I never could make it work. But I figured that if I made the Jews the Cherokee, my messiah figure a medicine man with a new message, and the Feds the Romans I could make it work. Turned out I needed a better villain than the feds, hence the Raven Mocker, an evil sorcerer in Cherokee mythology
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