James McCarthy - Author
Writer of fiction. Creator of the Cream City Mysteries series.
23/02/2024
It’s here! The Sydney Hih Incident—the third installment of the Cream City Mysteries series!
The Sydney Hih Incident: Cream City Mysteries - No. 3 The Sydney Hih Incident: Cream City Mysteries - No. 3
05/02/2024
Coming soon: The third installment of the Cream City Mysteries series. A landmark from Milwaukee’s past looms large in this tall tale. Can you guess which one? (pssst… here’s a hint!)
12/07/2023
22/02/2023
Woods Road… Mystic Drive… Haunchyville beckons. ☠️
17/01/2023
As promised, the long awaited sequel to Murder on the Margins is here!
The Haunchyville Affair: Cream City Mysteries - No. 2 A weird urban legend, an unwelcome visitor, a shocking murder, and a long-forgotten cold case somehow coalesce into a whirlpool of confusion, forcing David and Clover to wrestle with personal issues as they attempt to unravel this most confounding mystery. In a setting unique in both time and pla...
02/01/2023
Coming soon: The Haunchyville Affair - Cream City Mystery No. 2
A weird urban legend plays a pivotal role in this cliche-busting amateur sleuth mystery/farce. Stay tuned.
06/12/2022
Very inspired story: A Year to Live.
Anthony Burgess was forty when he learned he had a brain tumor that would kill him within a year. He had no money at the time and nothing to bequeath to his soon-to-be widow, Lynne.
Burgess had never been a professional novelist in the past; but he was always aware that he had the talent to be a writer in him. So, just to be able to leave at least the copyrights to his wife, he put a piece of paper in the typewriter and began to write his first novel. It was not even certain that what he had written could be published; but he couldn’t think of anything else to do.
“It was January 1960,” he said, “and according to the diagnosis, I had a winter, a spring, and a summer ahead of me. That year, when the leaves began to fall, I would have died too.” With that speed and haste, Burgess had managed to write five and a half novels before the year was out. E. M. Forster could only write so many in almost an entire lifetime; J. D. Salinger, one of America’s greatest writers, managed to write only half of it in his entire life.
However, Burgess did not die. His cancer first regressed; then it disappeared altogether. In his long and full life as a writer, he produced more than seventy works, most famously A Clockwork Orange. He might not have written even one of these novels had it not been for the death sentence that cancer had inflicted on him.
Most of us are like Anthony Burgess; we hide a great talent waiting for an emergency to emerge from within us.
A useful exercise in self-motivation is to ask yourself what you would do if you were in Anthony Burgess’s place and found out that you would die of cancer within a year… “What would change in my life, how would I live my last year if I had learned that I would only live one more year? ? What exactly would I do? Considering the brevity of life is a useful exercise; it often brings up surprising thoughts in your mind that will reveal your unused talents that have not yet surfaced.
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14/09/2022
I can relate. 😂😂😂
30/07/2022
The Brady Street Festival is alive and well!
17/06/2022
Ma Baensch’s herring! 🤮 Although I avoid herring like the plague, this building is a Riverwest icon, mentioned several times in Murder on the Margins. The building is for sale, apparently. Time marches on. 😢
12/04/2022
Home sweet home for Bill Krueger. No wonder the guy drinks…
13/03/2022
Humpin’ Hanna’s! Yes, it was a real joint! And check out that lineup!
28/02/2022
Murder on the Margins: Cream City Mysteries - No.1 Murder on the Margins: Cream City Mysteries - No.1