Mad Swirl Poetry Forum – Coyotes

Greetings! Many thanks to the Mad Swirl editors for featuring my poem “Coyotes” from my recently published “The Alchemy of Then” collection 🙂

Jim’s Storytime – The Alien of Orchard Lake Chapter 16

Greetings! Welcome to another edition of Jim’s Storytime. Today we are looking at chapter 16 where Dr. Richard Andrews goes to pick up the alien Ebar (Kyle Johnson) at the group home and finds he is gone. He decides to do something drastic about it.

GREAT REVIEW!! – Dancing With Butterflies

Greetings! Many thanks go out to Justin Wiggins for this wonderful review of my flash fiction collection “Dancing With Butterflies.” Thank you so much, Justin!! 🙂 Jim Bates is an incredibly prolific writer of fiction. In this book of short stories he writes about loss, love, joy, family, community, the power of art, the joy

The Literary Yard – 5 Summer Haiku

Greetings! Many thanks go out to editor Onkar Sharma for featuring 5 of my haiku today!! 🙂

Blog Interview – Old Man Jasperson On the “Fast Track”

Greetings! Many thanks go out to editor Gill James at Bridge House Publishing for this nice blog posting regarding how my new collection “Old Man Jasperson and Other Stories” came to be! https://www.gilljameswriter.com/2023/08/our-first-fast-track-author-jim-bates.html

Review – Conversations With the Dead

Greetings! Many thanks go out to George S for this stunning review on Amazon! This book shows that Jim Bates can excel at any genre he puts his mind to. Conversations with the Dead could probably be labeled as urban fantasy or magic realism, and it’s Jim’s best work yet, so I hope he will

Mad Swirl – Raspberry Patch

Greetings! Many thanks go out to Tyler and the rest of the good people at Mad Swirl for continuing to support my work and for featuring my story today! 🙂 Raspberry Patch

Old Man Jasperson and Other Stories is now Live!!

Greetings! Many thanks go out to editor Gill James and her team for their magnificent job on my new short story collection. I’m especially excited because my brother Tom’s painting is the cover!!

Jim’s Storytime – Chapter 15 “The Alien of Orchard Lake”

Greetings! Welcome to another edition of Jim’s Storytime. In chapter 15 Jeremy, Ebar, Julie, and Wren escape from Dr. Andrews by driving an RV to a campground on Lake Superior. I hope you enjoy it! 🙂

Review of Dreamers

Greetings! Many thanks go out to poet Christine Tabaka for this wonderful review of my short story collection “Dreamers.” Thank you so much, Christine!! 🙂 The characters in Jim Bate’s short story book “Dreamers” are so full of personality that you feel as if you are right there experiencing the situations with them. Jim’s stories