Location: United States
Member Since: July 31, 2009

Jim Musgrave


Biography

Jim Musgrave is an author and college educator in San Diego, California. His recent non-fiction title, The Digital Scribe: a Writer’s Guide to Electronic Media (AP Professional, ISBN 0-12-512255-1) has been internationally published. He has a M.A. degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. He was awarded the “Ebook of the Year Award, 2001-2002” from Bookbooters.com for his thriller, Russian Wolves. In addition, Mr. Musgrave has finished as a Finalist in the New Century Writer Awards for his novel excerpt, Iron Maiden. Runner-Up in the $10,000 Annual Heekin Foundation Awards for New Fiction Writers (1994). He has published short fiction in many literary journals, including: San Diego Writer’s Monthly, Shroud Anthology Beneath the Surface, Stone Magazine, FirstDraft, Sniplits Audio Short Stories 2 Go, Back Channels, Pacific Review, California Quarterly and Cowles Mountain Journal. He has also been published at CIC Publishers with four novels: Sins of Darkness, Russian Wolves, Iron Maiden and Lucifer’s Wedding and a collection of short fiction, The President’s Parasite and Other Stories. Mr. Musgrave’s story, “Speculum” was an Honorable Mention in the Fog City Writer’s Awards, and “Turning the Law Wheel” was an Honorable Mention in the Cedar Hill Press Short Fiction Contest.

Where to find Jim Musgrave online

Website: http://www.contempinstruct.com/books/books.htm
Twitter: efraimzgraves
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://mayanmagician.wordpress.com

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com

Books

Zombies and Children    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $2.99 USD. 9330 words. Published on April 15, 2012. Fiction.
Should children be seen with zombies? Should zombies be children? What kind of a demented mind would want such a thing to happen? Horror on the Installment Plan’s premier issue wants to explore this theme in order to give you a few thrills, a few moments of fear, and perhaps even gross you out a bit!
Online Research Made Easy    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $2.99 USD. 3640 words. Published on August 19, 2011. Nonfiction.
Anybody who needs the skills to do research online needs this book. It is written by a professor with over 15 years teaching online in the research and writing discipline, and this handy ebook provides tutorials and practice to get you back to the important job of writing.
Lucifer's Wedding    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $3.99 USD. 60600 words. Published on August 14, 2011. Fiction.
Miriam Weinstein and James Duvalier are cops with a difference. As psychic investigators for the San Diego Police Department's Paranormal Psychology Unit, they are acutely familiar with the underworld of the occult. But nothing can prepare them for the unimaginable forces about to confront them. Satan's time is at hand, and Miriam Weinstein bears the pentangle mark of his chosen bride.
The President's Parasite and Other Stories    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $3.99 USD. 84940 words. Published on August 13, 2011. Fiction.
In The President's Parasite, Jim Musgrave resurrects all that has gone missing in today's literature: originality. The title story is a Kafkaesque piece from the point-of-view of an intellectual tapeworm trapped inside a moronic president, and the satirical impact is worthy of Swift.
Russian Wolves    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $3.99 USD. 59390 words. Published on August 5, 2011. Fiction.
Ebook of the Year Award Winner (2000-2001) Bookbooters Press. This riveting story traces the creation of a serial killer and how one man's desire to get his family to America causes him to use this killer as a paid assassin for the Russian Mafia. Can CIA agent Dr. Abigail Soloman convince her country of her discovery?
Iron Maiden: An Alternate History Novel    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $3.99 USD. 89990 words. Published on August 1, 2009. Fiction.
Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE inspired this alternate history that takes place during the American Civil War, and tells the story of eight people who come together after the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. They trick the government into buying more Monitor-class ships.
The Mayan Magician and Other Stories    by Jim Musgrave
Price: $9.99 USD. 97880 words. Published on July 31, 2009. Fiction.
Award-winning short fiction author, Jacob Appel says, "With the publication of The Mayan Magician and Other Stories, Jim Musgrave joins the ranks of George Saunders, Steven Millhauser and Kevin Brockmeier at the heart of the modern American short story's second great renaissance."

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