Hi James,

First of all let me say I appreciate you and what you do. I came upon your works via InTheseGoingDown and I was wondering, will the book Ranger ever come out? The premise (you talked about it in a video some years back), sounded so cool of a Medieval/Renaissance era Catholic USA fighting Indians and supernatural creatures.

My second question. For someone who is new to your books but who has an interest in reading them, which ones would you recommend? My interests are in the Medieval/Renaissance era, but I also like supernatural/atmospheric horror stuff.

Anyways thanks for your time and keep safe.

Kindest regards,

W

Werwolf8888,

It is an honor to be contacted by you.

First, let’s get one point straight, my wife is an Eskimo/Haida, which makes her Native American or Indigenous. In our house we use, “Injun” not Indian, just like Sargent Saddler in Ranger? Dove describes herself as an “honest Injun,” not like those thieving Cheyenne as well she is an upstanding Native, not like those big shot Lakota and Navaho who “think they’re all that and a bag of chips.” Nor is she violently insane like “Blackfeet women,” who every other injun, especially Blackfeet men, fear.

I will suggest what i think is my best work on these themes, which are in print. i have over 20 novels which have not yet been put in print.

My favorite, of those not yet in print, are Ranger?, Sorcerer!, Wife- and Slave., which will go out as one omnibus under the title Gallows Born, very soon as an ebook on my site, and sometime before year's end by Niche Books in print.

From Casting Darts Publishing, SPQR is maybe my best execution of a one off, which is about a Rome of 2031 stuck at Renaissance tech level, just as I placed Ranger? in an America still in a catholic Renaissance level of social development, so i could get knights in armor fighting Comanche's and Haitian voodooists in New Spain and New England. I set SPQR in New York City which is a place i have been and regard with horror.

I write these novels when i am on location. In Ranger?, the last battle of the Sunken Road at the Priory of Hell's Door was written while I lived at that house and walked that road. The Prior of Hell's Door is based directly on Pastor Linstett who i interviewed about his time as Archbishop of a white identity church. Slave. was written in the Washington Cascades in a camper, Wife—in the Uinta Mountains, the house, neighbors and even chickens, kept by Lynn Jamison the actual house where I wrote and gardened. Sorcerer! is set on a mountain i spent a few hours on in Wyoming in 2017, written while sick with pnemonia in the Cascades in 2022.

SPQR

From Lynn Lockhart's Hardback Collection:

Haft is a dissenting take on Middle Earth

Who Writes the Songs of Night is a post apocalyptic ice age setting with retrotech heathens versus salvage tech catholics. The first volume, Reverent Chandler actually doubled my number of fiction readers, from 5 to 10, due to the ethnic angle.

From the paperback collection:

Under and Iron Crown, a story set in the Dark Ages I feel good about for taking all of a weekend to write:

If you can stomach an Islamic perspective on medieval horror The Jericho Bone: including Fruit of the Deceiver and Forty Hands of Night is actually historical horror linked to an ancient to medieval science fiction cycle:

The supernatural aspect of the Jericho Bone, which needed no more horror being a historical novel concerning mass urban cannibalism, was the idea of an alien biologist marooned on earth and separated from his mate, the astrophysicist, is explored in Yusef of the Dusk from the heroic angle:

Drink Deep of Night is languid horror concerning the biologist.

As for the mate of the biologist, the evil astrophysicist, that bitch is covered from Roman to modern times in the horror Ire and Ice

I intend to write a sequel to Yusef of the Dusk and Ire and Ice outlined as Trove of the Murderess, or Yusef of the Dark.

Two books that have long lay out of print with medieval themes are Beyond the Pale, which is also a science horror novel which really bothered an orthodox monk who read it, and Prentice Dolphin which is another look at a possible medieval future.

As much as i adore and want to write of Medieval Arуan culture, i have not been, and will not be, in Europe. So, in science-fiction and in fantasy settings such as the world of the Nords and the Dictors, of Prentice Dolphin and Justice Claret, of Abel Ben Saul and Heshman Shew Mote [Beyond the Pale], and of Noose Gun and Brawn Pillory in Wester New England, I am relegated to writing of such things in alternate fantasy timelines and post apocalyptic science-fiction settings. This permits story telling to be set in lands I have lived in so that they might be true from the ground the protagonists walk, and hopefully up to higher reaches.

Werwolf8888, I am sending you a copy of my draft of the alternative time line renaissance fantasy Ranger?

Also, since these novels have been written for five years and will not be in print for another year or two, I’m sending my proofs of Prentice Dolphin and Beyond the Pale. Beyond the Pale took seven years to write. If you find them pleasing, then you should enjoy the similar themed world of the Nords and Dictors I began in Reverent Chandler which is the first of the three volume trilogy Who Writes the Songs of Night.

Thank you, sir, and give my regards to InTheseGoingsDown.

james