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Titles Available at Smashwords Back From The Bardo $2.99 E-book edition at  smashwords.com  Holding the Bricks available at smashwords.com for FREE The Boareen Rife short story science fiction free at smashwords.com Astral Andy y El Oso Divertido (Astral Andy and the Funny Bear) free at Smashwords.	Sambalanga on Amazon Kindle   Sambalanga available at Google EBooks Sambalanga available $2.49 at smashwords.com The Last Marathon Non-Fiction-Essay free at Smashwords  Tenencias de los Ladrillos  (Holding the Bricks)   version espanol at Smashwords	Back From The Bardo (the e-book version) ON KINDLE AT AMAZON.COM  AMAZON.COM/UK and Amazon.de Back From the Bardo available at Google EBooks Sambalanga was an official finalist for best screenplay at the 2010  Mexico International Film Festival Awards.
James Cage's cult classic, Back From The Bardo is a gritty, in your face three part novella  following the drug running, risk taking life of one gutsy individual. Gripping plots, vivid  characters, fast paced action, adventure from Mexico to Memphis, Rome, Africa, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles  and Las Vegas to the New Jersey Shore.  James Cage knows how to create dangerous, power-driven, yet somehow likeable people who urge his stories forward at the speed of sound. In the case of Back From the Bardo, it’s a ride no reader should  miss.   BACK FROM THE BARDO, Three Short Stories by James Cage, received Honorable Mention in the WILD CARD  category at the 2007 London Book Festival Awards.

Two Books a Young Writer Should Read

 By James Cage

There are two books a young writer must read and understand.  These books are The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

The novel The Sun Also Rises is a work of fiction. The title comes from Chapter One, Verse Five of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament.  Ecclesiastes, written by Solomon, is a narrative about the futility of life. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you will die, characterizes both Solomon and Hemingway’s stories.

Hemingway’s story takes place in 1920’s France and Spain. The running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain was made famous in this book. English language grammar, character development, sentence structure and the form of the story should be studied.  A writer can use The Sun Also Rises format as a base for a novel.

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is non-fiction written as a novel. Capote’s prose, vocabulary and reporting of actual events are a work of art.  In 1959 Kansas a family is brutally murdered by a couple of ex-cons. Why is a decent, hardworking, God fearing family murdered? Why would God allow this act of terror and violence to occur? These are philosophical questions that arise when reading this book.