Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire is a satirical comedy/thriller set in the fictional town of Junction City, Texas, featuring the hard boiled, film-noir-style reporter Jock Stewart. Stewart investigates the theft of the mayor's racehourse Sea of Fire and the murder of his publisher's girl friend.
The novel was inspired by Campbell's work as a Navy Journalist, journalism instructor, and by the tall tales of the veteran journalists he knew while growing up in north Florida.
The Sun Singer, first published by iUniverse in 2004, has been brought out in a new second edition timed to coincide with the Glacier National Park centennial. The story follows young Robert Adams on his mythic, hero's path journey into a land where magic runs deeper than the mountain rivers where his first objective will be to find himself.
The novel was inspired by a childhood trip to see the famed Sun Singer statue at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois, and by Campbell's work as a seasonal employee at Many Glacier Hotel in Montana's Glacier National Park where the novel is set.
Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey
Jefferson, Georgia, June 15—In his second novel set in the high country of Glacier National Park, Montana, “Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey,” Georgia author Malcolm R. Campbell tells a multi-layered story about a man whose life is twisted by the Vietnam War, compromised by the denizens of a corrupt college, and destroyed by a lover out for revenge.
When nineteen-year-old David Ward climbs the sacred mountain Nináistuko seeking a vision, the golden eagle of earth flings him back onto the prairie and the black horse of dreams shows him the future. Though his eyes are opened, fate hides exactly what he needs to know. The spiritual journey that follows leads him through the mountains of Pakistan, the swamps of North Florida, the beaches of Hawaii, the waters of the South China Sea and the ivy-covered halls of an Illinois college as he attempts to sort out the shattered puzzle of his life.
A blend of realism and magical realism, the novel’s robust, non-linear structure emulates the randomness of memory while its multi-column sections illustrate the simultaneity of time’s pathways in a quantum universe. Like Campbell’s first novel “The Sun Singer,” also set in Glacier National Park, “Garden of Heaven” follows the late Joseph Campbell’s mythic hero’s path journey of personal transformation popularized in such films as “Star Wars” and “The Matrix.”
Available in both a paperback (CreateSpace) and an electronic edition (Vanilla Heart Publishing), “Garden of Heaven” can be found at Amazon, OmniLit and other online booksellers and by order from any bookstore. Malcolm R. Campbell is also the author of the comedy/thriller “Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire.”
Sarabande
Sarabande, a contemporary fantasy about a woman's journey from her mountain home to the flatlands of central Illinois in search of the one man who can help her get rid of a tormenting ghost, is the sequel to The Sun Singer. It can also be read as a standalone novel.
Like The Sun Singer, Sarabande's primary scenes are set in the beautiful Swiftcurrent Valley of Glacier National Park. As a contemporary fantasy, the novel takes place in two worlds: the title character Sarabande's 1870s-era alternate universe where magic is common, and in the United States of the 1980s.
To describe Sarabande's 1,650 mile journey as harrowing would be an understatement. She's out of her element, alone, and fighting against one of the worst crimes a man can commit. She finds others who are helpful, including a Huna mystic, a native healer, and a coyote whose existence seems to hover on the boundary line between reality and dream.
The Sun Singer himself, Robert Adams of Decatur, Illinois, is much changed from the day she said goodbye to him in The Sun Singer. He has, it appears, given up magic because his parents fear it and think it has no place in the life of a young man heading off to college to get the kind of education that will help him make his way through the realities of a science and technology world.
Robert intends to ignore Sarbande's call for help and send her away--until an incident in a city park forces him to turn to magic again. Can they work together? Can Sarabande survive her wounds and the greater wounds to come? In this story, lies the answer to such hard-to-ponder questions.
