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About meAt the moment, I am concentrating on literary satire, and am most happy to say that my first attempt--"The Nation's Highest Honor"--will be published by Kunati Books (winner of the Independent Publisher of the Year Award at BEA 2008) in the spring of 2009. Who is Leonard Bentwood? And why is he receiving the nations highest honor? If you want to know, you will have to wait until the grass is greening and the lupine flowering next year.

And, I have just complete the first draft of a second literary satire, which I hope sees life as a printed book sooner rather than later.

I also have an interest in history and injustice, and thus have written an historical novel--"A Stout Cord and a Good Drop--A Novel of the Founding of Montana"--of which I am very proud. It is a "revisionist" telling of Montana's formative years (gold rushes, vigilantes, towering mountains) all set in the midst of the Civil War. When I say it is "revisionist," I mean to say that it corrects a lot of untruths and myths relating to Montana's famous hanging spree, during which Sheriff Henry Plummer and some of his deputies met their end. Again, it is meant to be a literary effort.

I have also helped edit and helped write a law book--"The College of Commercial Arbitrators Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration (Juris Pub 2006), which is widely regarded as the leading arbitration guide in the U.S.

I have lived in the west most of my adult life (with a brief stint in Scotland), mostly in or near wild places, in the forest or on the edge of the desert. My books all show this preference for big animals and big mountains and solitude and escape.

The rest is just that early biographical stuff that in the end really does not matter for a writer--BA in English Lit; JD--law degree; some experience at academia (again, in Scotland), etc. and rubbish and who really cares?

Oh. And at times in my life I have read Russian and Spanish well enough to have read quite a few classics in those languages (particularly in Russian). I will mention some of my favorites elsewhere.

So that's enough for now,

Cheers

About my libraryI'm not sure what to say here. One problem I have in life is that both my wife and I have English Lit degrees. Like of lot of people, we thus have thousands of books, all of which seem precious.

Here are some authors for whom I have more or less a complete set of works:

William Faulkner, Shakespeare (of course), Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Hemmingway, Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Abbey, Galsworthy, Dickens, Twain, Wilke Colllins, Roberston Davies, Bernard Shaw, Balzac, Robert Penn Warren, John Dos Pasos, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Hardy, Tolkein, Puskin, Bunin, Henry James, Thomas Wolfe, And lots more . . . .

Real nameJames Gaitis

LocationTucson & Mt. Lemmon, Arizona

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Member sinceOct 11, 2008