Hi, I'm Jim Fisher
AUTHOR OF THE CRANE TRILOGY
James Fisher was born and raised in Southern California, but that hasn’t stopped him from living across the states. He was a songwriter and musician before shifting into novel writing. He has spent a great deal of time in the entertainment and hospitality industry. Besides writing, he enjoys surfing, sailing, riding motorcycles, and the local beer. He lives in Eugene, Oregon with The One, a cat named Marlowe, and a myriad of children. Spiral is the first book in The Crane Trilogy.
How I started my career as an
AUTHOR
Writing for me began early in life. I got hooked on reading lyrics on vinyl records and fell in love with the craft of songwriting. Eventually, I began writing for bands. Hearing my words launch into a musical interpretation was a rush, an experience that borders something beautifully spiritual, like your soul being shot out of a cannon. It abruptly ended with Napster, and other pirating sites. Two-thirds of Nashville songwriters were immediately unemployed. What remained for me was the fascination of the process, and what the mind does when you write.
Novel writing wasn’t exactly on my radar. It seemed like a lofty process and I thought short stories might have been my new writing outlet. I was wrong. When I began to write Spiral, it opened another creative avenue that I didn’t see coming. Especially when characters formed organically from some mysterious place, and began to take on a life of their own, taking me captive— on a trip along an endless neural highway.
Motivation & Inspiration
Many people ask me where I get the motivation and tenacity to write a novel. I just do it for fun, really. The challenge for me is to get better at the craft and evolve. I’m out to produce a good read every time and nothing less with the hopes that my own self-entertainment will please others. Stories are for sharing, that’s what humans do. Someone coined a phrase, “Don’t die with the story in you”. Everyone should write their story, and make it fiction. I think that’s a great place to start your first story. I dare people to go there all the time to meet their muse.
I have a huge admiration for writers that I think have “arrived” in their own life time like Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt, Tom Robbins, Wally Lamb, to just blurt a few names because there are so many. Their masterful talent, and respect to the craft is inspirational. And as a writer, that is all that matters.
Inspiration for the Crane Trilogy
The Crane Trilogy is a cocktail made from biographical events, historical ejaculations, and fused with raw truth told by the characters who insist on holding the pen. I’m just here for the ride for the most part, I put my butt in the seat and off we go. Sounds insane, but anyone can do it.
I prefer to write about things that actually happened at one point or another. Mixing historical events with some personal eyewitness ones and throwing it into the fire with a little gasoline seemed to be the recipe used. The ashes collected afterward were carefully pressed into a writing stick. After many etchings on oceans of paper, what resulted became a work that is “The Crane Trilogy”.
HISTORICAL PIC 25TH ST OGDEN
FEATURED IN SPIRAL
The references of 25th street made by the character Michael Price are based on actual historical events. Many of these taverns and buildings were around in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
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