Ask the Author: Jim Cherry
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Jim Cherry
Hi Lynn!
I'm glad you like the bio. Sorry for the website, it's the ghost of websites past and my fault for not realizing it was still there. I really don't have a website any more things are kind of in the ether, I post a lot of articles on Medium these days (https://medium.com/@jimcherry) I do have a couple of books out "The Doors Examined" and "The Last Stage" that are available on Amazon (profile there: https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Cherry/e/B...) If you like ghost stories I have a short on Kindle "The Captured Dead". I hope don't sound like an ad here, but have been keeping things more discrete than in the past. I also have been blogging a lot more frequently here on Goodreads.
Best!
Jim Cherry
I'm glad you like the bio. Sorry for the website, it's the ghost of websites past and my fault for not realizing it was still there. I really don't have a website any more things are kind of in the ether, I post a lot of articles on Medium these days (https://medium.com/@jimcherry) I do have a couple of books out "The Doors Examined" and "The Last Stage" that are available on Amazon (profile there: https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Cherry/e/B...) If you like ghost stories I have a short on Kindle "The Captured Dead". I hope don't sound like an ad here, but have been keeping things more discrete than in the past. I also have been blogging a lot more frequently here on Goodreads.
Best!
Jim Cherry
Jim Cherry
When I was a teenager I read Phillip Jose Farmer's "World of Tiers" it was about going through an inter-dimensional portal and the protagonist becomes a hero and discovers his true self, I guess really good for a teenager. But it's fantasy, as the hero moves up the tiers of the world, it's filled with characters from Greek mythology, and adventure. That would be a cool place to go.
Jim Cherry
I don't really have a summer reading list this year, it's more of a summer writing list. I'm finishing "Strictly From Hunger! A Rock and Roll Memoir" and I have a rough draft of my novel "The Third Day" that I want to get more into.
Jim Cherry
I used to joke that I missed that day in school when they told you the secret of life. I think that my writing is trying to resolve that, to figure out the secret that every one else seems to know. So while I don't write mysteries in a traditional sense my writing is searching to solve a mystery in a much larger, existential sense.
Jim Cherry
Thinking of all the literary couples it's a really hard question. Couples that come to mind are Dick and Nicole Diver from "Tender is the Night", and this may sound facetious but the fisherman and the fish in "The Old Man and the Sea" but the 'couple' that first comes to mind is Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity from Kerouac's "On The Road".
Sal and Dean are opposites and complement and contrast each other (as they're meant to be) while the relationship may not be totally equal, Sal seems enthralled to and by Dean. But Sal his purpose in the relationship too, he's hoping that Dean and his adventures will lead Sal to some sort of enlightenment, and I think that's what we're all seeking on this road of life, a moment of enlightenment that will make sense of all this to us.
Sal and Dean are opposites and complement and contrast each other (as they're meant to be) while the relationship may not be totally equal, Sal seems enthralled to and by Dean. But Sal his purpose in the relationship too, he's hoping that Dean and his adventures will lead Sal to some sort of enlightenment, and I think that's what we're all seeking on this road of life, a moment of enlightenment that will make sense of all this to us.
Jim Cherry
Anything can. I can be reading a book, taking a shower, driving, and an idea will hit me, be open to those moments.
Jim Cherry
Read. Keep your mind open to the possibilities of the universe or the universe (or world) you want to create. Be open to new experiences you never know what inspiration it may trigger.
Jim Cherry
Everything. Next to sex it's the best way to be immortal and outside of time, at least for a short period of time.
You get to live in your imagination and live out your fantasies.
You get to live in your imagination and live out your fantasies.
Jim Cherry
I try not to believe in it. The worst thing a writer can do is sit in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen trying to force the words to come, it doesn't work that way you have to court the muse a bit go out and have some adventures and experience and you'll find things coming to you (don't forget to have a notebook nearby when the inspiration hits!).
Jim Cherry
I just finished a short story "The Captured Dead" and I got the idea when I was reading a book on the making of the John Ford/John Wayne movie "The Searchers". It was based on a true story that happened in the 1940's and a small section was a tale a Native American shaman using the Ghost Dance to bring back the dead to help them against the U.S. Army. I was looking to write a zombie story (because we all know zombies are 'in') but it didn't work out the way I thought but works much better as a ghost story.
Jim Cherry
I'm working on a book called "Strictly From Hunger!" it's a non-fiction book about a rock group that was very BIG on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1967 and 1968 but they just missed the big time, they were going to be released against a "spacey" sounding rock group called Pink Floyd.
"Strictly From Hunger!" is John Morton's story of his time as one of the big bands on the strip, he lived next to Jim Morrison, he was friends with Duane Allman, Hunger! played venue's with the band Love, they even wrote a song that was supposed to used in a movie starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins. I just sent the proposal to a publisher today so hoping they will be as interested in it as I think readers will be.
"Strictly From Hunger!" is John Morton's story of his time as one of the big bands on the strip, he lived next to Jim Morrison, he was friends with Duane Allman, Hunger! played venue's with the band Love, they even wrote a song that was supposed to used in a movie starring Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins. I just sent the proposal to a publisher today so hoping they will be as interested in it as I think readers will be.
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