Author: James McMurtray

Soccer, as you may know, is “THE DEVIL’S GAME.” This is due to the fact that you can’t use your hands — and of course, “Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.” …QED, soccer is the Devil’s game. This is unarguable logic, and as such, is beyond contestation.

Excerpt: “It’s called ASD. That’s Attention Superfluity Disorder — very common. It’s the opposite of ADD. It’s also called Attention Superfluity Syndrome, but that name’s less popular for obvious reasons. Basically, it just means you have a really long attention span. In other words, slow on the uptake – or you know, normal.

NEW THIS SUMMER An Excerpt: The old dog turned his head and looked expectantly at his neighbor as though waiting for some kind of explanation. His name – if in fact he had one — would now be added to the short list of old dogs in Arkansas to sit inside a Camera Obscura with…

A new novel — There’s no beginning. There’s just middles — lots and lots of middles — The last surviving legend of the American West

Pathogen will become a movie!

A gentleman never gives offense unintentionally. I can’t possibly know exactly what offends you so I am always at risk of insulting you by accident. To preempt that error, I shall just go ahead and offend you now on purpose. Just fill in the blanks yourself. Whatever it is that you are sensitive about, please…

Now is the perfect time to read Pathogen. Jack Bannister says, “Like reading Michael Crichton, only better!”

Kicked by Jim McMurtray is now the #1 best selling humorous Greek Tragedy involving an ugly American football player and a comet… It’s a short list.  

“The purpose of communication is control.  It has no other function. Most people want desperately to think it has some loftier purpose, but it does not. That’s why you can’t think of one. No one ever has. An organism communicates to control its environment — and for no other reason — ever. …It’s a good…

The things that resonate with people are never the things I expect. One of the threads from “Kicked” that has generated several comments from readers is this: …Their tastes in reading material did not overlap anywhere. Calvin read spy novels and historical fiction. Molly was one of the six people in the universe at the…