Gary H. Miller - Author
Southern Fiction with Extraordinary Heart
Bio
I have short stories published in Elk River Review, and Tales from the Kudzu Crypt. I earned regional awards from Cookeville Creative Writer's Association in Cookeville TN, and Cleveland Creative Arts Guild in Cleveland TN. I was born in Alabama, and learned to play guitar at the age of 14. Those experiences inspired me to write a fiction novel titled Ragsdale Blues.
I currently live in Hamilton, Alabama. I have retired after 36 years in manufacturing, and now devote the majority of my time to writing, music, and learning.
I am a member of the Tuscaloosa Writers and Illustrators Guild
Chapter One is exceptional and perhaps the best first 20 pages read in a long while. The characters are
real people in very interesting, believable, and real-life situations.
“Judge, 32nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.”
A boy with a guitar and intuition confronts a new world in 1960's - 2010.
In spite of the generational curses of poverty, alcoholism, and hopelessness, Jess carves his way out
of backwoods Alabama utilizing intuition and his talent for musical performance. Under such circumstances,
love and relationships have to be learned the hard way. Jess and his first girlfriend Rachael embark on a
love story that endures over 35 years.
Jess eventually proves you can get there from here, but there may eventually become another place you don't want to be.
Ragsdale Blues traces the complete circle Jess travels as he learns to love and cope within the ways of his new world.
If ghosts were real, would they conform to our preconceptions?
Being a ghost is ok for the first two or three hundred years. After that, not so much. Will Jones looks
forward to running the antique shop after retiring. He thinks he will regain control of his life. Ghosts
residing in the shop have a different agenda.
"You non-ghosts only understand the desire to live a rich existence because your life is ahead of you. Ghosts seek only to no longer exist. We are but remnants and residue left behind, overdue to vanish and be gone. We are tethered to our items until they have a permanent location and entered into the ledger. The system forces us to rely on non-ghosts. Otherwise, we would do away with you."