Author Archives: John McClure

About John McClure

J. R. A. McClure is a recovering philosopher and graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator. His writing has appeared in Fatal Flaw, Sci-Fi Lampoon and been featured at Tell-All Boston. He lives in MA with his husband and their neurotic dog beneath a quilt of countless manuscripts.

Meet Kasey LeBlanc, Author of Flyboy

“No one knows where the Midnight Circus comes from—when it began or how…It comes for those who need it.” So opens Kasey LeBlanc’s debut novel, Flyboy, beckoning those who need a magical refuge as much as does the novel’s fierce…

Meet Brenda Peynado, Author of The Rock Eaters

“Society cannot exist,” the philosopher Edmund Burke cautioned, without “a controlling power upon will and appetite…men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” A similar warning may reside in The Rock Eaters, Brenda Peynado’s beautifully bizarre…

Dear COVID-19, I’ve Read Your Pandemic Novel

Thanks for sending me your manuscript—nearly finished, I hope! It’s certainly some kind of achievement to literally capture your audience inside this sprawling dystopia. Your stakes recall the four horsemen, even your scenes of grocery shopping contain conflict, and you’ve…