I originally wrote The Arrow Catcher while a writing major at Stanford. I finished it in 1984. Two supposed friends, who were both teachers (not at Stanford), told me it was so bad that it was unreadable. As a result, I put it in a box, where it sat until around 4 years ago, when I published it and it became a Amazon #1 Best Selling Historical Thriller for several weeks and in their top ten for over two years. It's nice knowing I'm not along, as the following article describes:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10877825/The-rejection-letters-how-publishers-snubbed-11-great-authors.html
Jim Mather - Author
This is where #1 Amazon Best Selling author Jim Mather, author of The Arrow Catcher and The Arrow Shooter, talks about writing and his books.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Our wonderful alphabet!
Using just 26 letters, what knowledge we can pass on and tales we can create!
Sunday, December 6, 2015
The Pen and the Sword
An interesting article on Yukio Mishima and the connection between warrior and scholar. Mishima was thrice nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature. http://www.dawn.com/news/1224192/essaythe-pen-and-the-sword
Friday, December 4, 2015
The River of Writing
This river helps me to cultivate my fields with the mercy of
its waters, supports my living and at time floods and nearly drowns me in its
prolific streams. The River also demands from me infinite patience and daily
hard labor through the changing seasons and passing time. How alike are writing
and farming! One’s spirit must be on guard at every moment against storms and
frosts. After such a long and vigilant watch over my field of writing and after
such endless toil of imagination and poetry, can I ever be sure of a rich
harvest? What I have written departs from me, never nourishing my void, and
becomes nothing but a relentless whip lashing me on. How many struggling
nights, how many desperate hours, had to be spent on those writings! If I were
to add up and record my memories of such nights I would surely go mad. Yet I
still have no way to survive but to keep on writing one line, one more line,
one more line…
Yukio Mishima, Catalogue to the Tobu Exhibition
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Reflections on being #1 Amazon Best Seller
For the last two weeks, The Arrow Catcher was #1 on Amazon's Best Seller's List for Books (Kindle, paperbacks, and hardcover) Teen/Young Adult Historical Thrillers and for Kindle Teen/Young Adults Fantasy. It was also #3 on all ages Historical Fiction. It's been an exciting and very comforting ride, which - as will all things - must surely end.
But the sequel to The Arrow Catcher, which is entitled The Arrow Shooter, is in the final phases of publication and may be released next week. Hopefully people will receive it as warmly as they have The Arrow Catcher. (There will be a third book in the Jonathan Lusk. It will be called The Arrow.)
I can't thank you all enough for your kind support, Jim
But the sequel to The Arrow Catcher, which is entitled The Arrow Shooter, is in the final phases of publication and may be released next week. Hopefully people will receive it as warmly as they have The Arrow Catcher. (There will be a third book in the Jonathan Lusk. It will be called The Arrow.)
I can't thank you all enough for your kind support, Jim
Monday, October 20, 2014
My interview in Traveling Book Junkie
This is the link for an interview I did on writing a few months ago and just appeared today. http://www.travellingbookjunkie.com/jim-mather/
Friday, May 16, 2014
12-weeks Amazon Best Seller List
12-weeks on Amazon’s
Best Sellers list!
Twenty-one 5-star ratings!
"An exciting tale with an engaging young hero" - Kirkus Review
“The depth and breadth of (Jim) Mather’s work makes it easily one of the best books I have ever read. Its true message and overall significance is sure to compel the reader to look beyond the obvious outward lesson and more closely examine a journey of inner proportions. Without question, The Arrow Catcher is certain to become a timeless classic valued for generations to come and I enthusiastically recommend it.” Patrick McCarthy, award-winning author
“Beautifully written. Anyone who reads (The Arrow Catcher) will become instantly addicted… I adored the plot, because it is very different from any other book I have read.” – Taylor, GoodReads
http://www.amazon.com/Arrow-Catcher-Jim-Mather-ebook/dp/B00FKDYX46/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386005985&sr=8-1&keywords=the+arrow+catcher
Twenty-one 5-star ratings!
"An exciting tale with an engaging young hero" - Kirkus Review
“The depth and breadth of (Jim) Mather’s work makes it easily one of the best books I have ever read. Its true message and overall significance is sure to compel the reader to look beyond the obvious outward lesson and more closely examine a journey of inner proportions. Without question, The Arrow Catcher is certain to become a timeless classic valued for generations to come and I enthusiastically recommend it.” Patrick McCarthy, award-winning author
“Beautifully written. Anyone who reads (The Arrow Catcher) will become instantly addicted… I adored the plot, because it is very different from any other book I have read.” – Taylor, GoodReads
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