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Lost Souls Press Lives!

UPDATE September 2020: In order to rescue literary lost souls from publishing Purgatory, Jonathan P. Thompson is launching Lost Souls … More

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OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE: The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)

Editor’s Note: While going through a bunch of my father’s old writing, I came across a copy of the Deep … More

coal, Colorado Plateau, Energy, environmental history, Ian Thompson, Oil, Telluride, throwback, uranium, Writing

Hire me!

I am currently taking on editing and writing projects on a freelance basis. Need a writing coach who can help … More

#freelance, copyediting, editing, proofreading, translations, Writing

Behind the Slickrock Curtain preview

I’m about to do something that may be a bit unconventional, unorthodox — maybe even uncouth: promoting a novel before … More

#BearsEars, BookInSearchOfAHome, novel, publishing, SeekingAnAgent, SeekingAPublisher, Writing

Musings on the pro-nuke movement

Preface: In December, High Country News published a story of mine titled, Is nuclear energy the key to saving the … More

climatechange, Energy, journalism, nuclear, Writing

Writing novels

Way back when I was a teenager, I spent summers at my dad’s house outside of Cortez, Colorado. I had … More

#BearsEars, BehindTheSlickrockCurtain, environment, Fiction, Writing

“This can’t be the United States”: An excerpt from River of Lost Souls

To drive west out of Farmington is to travel through the borderland, where the northeastern edge of the Navajo Nation … More

#RiverofLostSouls, coal, journalism, newmexico, Pollution, Writing

The nowhereness of air travel

I was sitting in a hard, spine-crumpling seat in an airport somewhere, one of the seven I’d pass through during a … More

travel, Writing

Interior Secy. Zinke is Albert Fall and other writings on energy/public lands

In a harried attempt to keep up with the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, I’ve put out a flurry … More

#BearsEars, Archaeology, Chaco, Energy, journalism, newmexico, Oil, PublicLands, Trump, Utah, Writing

Fiction: Howitzer Love

(Author’s note: I wrote this piece several years ago for the Silverton Mountain Journal. I retooled it for the current … More

Fiction, Trump, Writing

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