Over My Dead Body is a murder mystery, the second in the Father Frank Mystery series. But, what prompted the story line? The genesis for the plot came from the Keystone Pipeline. This massive project had been in the news over the last few years. It has raised much controversy, and Congress and the President […]
Author James R. Callan asks “what if?” to find book ideas
I majored in English with the intention of writing, but I soon found I couldn’t support a family that way. So I went to graduate school in the field of mathematics. For thirty years I worked as a research mathematician. When all the kids were out of college and successful, I returned to writing. In […]
What if: blind, you suddenly see?
Exploring what-ifs is something many fiction readers love to do–every time they pick up a new novel. Let’s assume, for the sake of a good story, that you have been blind from birth. You are a woman in her 20s, married with a child. An angel offers you the chance to change anything in your […]