Jim Nelson

For the last 40 years or so, I have considered myself a writer...a storyteller...and for the last 12 years or so, a published author! Accounting put beans on the table, but writing was, and is, my passion! (It's difficult, bordering on really weird, to be passionate about accounting...)

Anyway, writing has come easily to me. When everything is working, when I am really cooking, writing fiction is very much like reading fiction. When that happens, and it is truly magical, I have no idea what is coming next. My wife loves to tell the story about an evening long ago, when I was writing my very first novel, "The Killer Instinct". The computer was in another room, and I appeared with a strange look on my face.

"What's the matter?" she asked.

"One of my characters just died!" I responded.

"Weren't you planning that?" She looked at me incredulously.

I thought about it, and said, "No. I knew that I didn't like him very much, but I had no idea that I was going to kill him!"

She just looked at me strangely, but then she does that a lot anyway.

I have since written 13 books, some of them fiction, some of them photography, some of them history books. One of them is a collection of my short stories. As I was writing the various novels, if I would get blocked, I would jump off and write a short story just to keep the juices flowing. It worked!

I wound up with 4 novels, ranging from a satire of every spy and detective novel ever written, to the story of a man being destroyed by compulsive behavior, to two action/adventures set in the high country of Colorado. The history books deal, in words and historical photos, with the histories of Glenwood Springs, Marble, and Redstone in Colorado, and Tombstone in Arizona. The photography book is a visual feast of Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

The short stories range from children's stories to ghost stories to horror stories to love stories to humor to some that defy description.... The short stories and the children's stories can be found in a Kindle book called "Uncle Jim's Brain".

Please look around, sample some of the Kindle books, and let me tell you some stories!

Thanks,

Jim Nelson