Malcolm R. Campbell
Biography
Malcolm R. Campbell, author the novels The Sun Singer (2004) and the satire Worst of Jock Stewart (2006) has been published “Nonprofit World,” “Nostalgia Magazine,” “The Smoking Poet,” the Atlanta “Journal-Constitution”, the Great Lakes “Bulletin,” the “Rosicrucian Digest,” “Future Earth Magazine” and training and manufacturing trade magazines
The Sun Singer was a finalist in the 2004 “ForeWord Magazine” Book of the Year Awards. A contributing writer for “Living Jackson Magazine” in northeast Georgia, Campbell also works as a grant writer for nonprofit organizations.
Since 2005, Campbell has maintained the “Morning Satirical News” weblog (http://jockstewart.typepad.com/) where his alter ego, Jock Stewart, takes a “cynical, sarcastic and randomly humorous look at real and/or imagined news.” The early posts from this weblog served as the basis for the satire, Worst of Jock Stewart. Junction City, the Star-Gazer newspaper and the primary characters in Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire were born at the “Morning Satirical News.” While both Campbell and Stewart learned to handset justified columns of metal type out of a California Job Case and copy fit headlines without using layout software, everything else in Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire is more or less fictional.
Campbell was graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in radio-television writing, with a minor in English, and from Syracuse University with an M. A. in journalism. He also attended the University of Colorado as a journalism student and a weekend climbing participant at the school’s Mountain Recreation Department. He served in the U. S. Navy as a journalist between 1968 and 1970, writing news stories and features for the military and the civilian press while on board the aircraft carrier U. S. S. Ranger (CVA-61) and while stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Station.
Campbell lives in Jefferson, Georgia with his wife Lesa, of 22 years, a former newspaper reporter, systems analyst, and the consulting director of the Crawford W. Long Museum. In December, Campbell finished serving four years, three as chair, on the Jefferson Historic Preservation Commission. Both Campbells have been active in the town’s Main Street Program.
An avid reader and book reviewer, Campbell especially enjoys the novels of Sunetra Gupta, Italo Calvino, Diana Gabaldon, Susanna Clarke, Cormac McCarthy and Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
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Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire
Mainstream humor with a dash of mystery... A throwback to Hollywood’s film noir reporters, Jock Stewart is out of touch with the looming world of digital journalism.
While he goes out of his way to mock those in authority by pretending to kowtow to them, he admits he does his best work by “being an asshole.” A mix of Don Rickles and Don Quixote, Stewart is the man for the job when the skirts are up and the chips are down...
Books
Sarabande
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Price: $4.99 USD. 80440 words.
Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on August 13, 2011. Fiction.
After her sister, Dryad haunts her from beyond the grave for three long and torturous years, Sarabande undertakes a dangerous journey into the past– to either raise her cruel sister from the dead, ending the torment...or to take her place in the safe darkness of the earth.
Bears; Where They Fought
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Price: $0.99 USD. 4710 words.
Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on June 14, 2011. Nonfiction.
This short introduction to Glacier National Park's Swiftcurrent Valley will delight, entertain, and offer a glimpse into the dramatic history of the most beautiful place on Earth... or so many visitors claim!
Jock Talks...Satirical News
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Price: Free! 10630 words.
Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on April 30, 2011. Fiction.
A selection of the good, the weird, and the utterly insane of investigative reporter Jock Stewart’s news stories and Night Beat columns.
Use of this volume as a doctoral dissertation has not been authorized by the U. S. Department of Education.
Jock Talks...Outlandish Happenings
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Price: $0.99 USD. 7700 words.
Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on April 8, 2011. Fiction.
The stories in this book appeared in Morning Satirical News, dedicated to satirizing real and/or imagined events. The offerings here represent a selection of the good, the weird and the utterly insane of investigative reporter Jock Stewart’s news stories and Night Beat columns.
Jock Talks...Strange People
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Price: $0.99 USD. 7800 words.
Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on April 8, 2011. Fiction.
The stories in this book appeared in Morning Satirical News, a weblog dedicated to satirizing real and/or imagined events. The offerings here represent a selection of the good, the weird and the utterly insane of investigative reporter Jock Stewart’s news stories and Night Beat columns.
Jock Talks...Politics
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Price: $0.99 USD. 8940 words.
Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on April 7, 2011. Fiction.
The stories in this book appeared in Morning Satirical News, dedicated to satirizing real and/or imagined events. The offerings here represent a selection of the good, the weird and the utterly insane of investigative reporter Jock Stewart’s news stories and Night Beat columns.
The Sun Singer
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Price: $4.99 USD. 131830 words.
Published by Vanilla Heart Publishing on February 17, 2010. Fiction.
Robert sees the statue of the Sun Singer in a lonely meadow, hears the song of the sun and receives the gift of prophecy. Robert then blames himself for the tragedy he cannot prevent and shoves his bright talent into the dark shadows of the future where, he suspects, it will one day save him... or kill him.
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