H. Melvin James

Diverse combinations of experience, skills, and knowledge uniquely define H. Melvin James as a highly credible literary fiction author. He has traveled and worked throughout the world in various industries and jobs, from manual labor to industrial plant management.

Mr. James has designed and built computers, decoded top secret electronic signals, and managed projects of numerous strategic and classified aircraft including Air Force One. His skills include welding steel, driving an 18-wheeler, flying airplanes, and building hot-rod engines. James designed and built a house, surveyed construction sites, and wired manufacturing plants for electrical power.

In addition to several years of technical training, H. Melvin has two college degrees, electrical engineering and business administration management. He has dehorned, branded, and castrated beef cattle, operated heavy equipment, and accounted for multi-million-dollar projects for defense and commercial contracts. Outside of industry he held many offices including town mayor and member of the board of a municipal Chamber of Commerce. Mr. James has written and published several highly rated literary fiction novels.

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Tares among the Wheat

By: H. Melvin James

Superstition, mysticism, and religion weave like tangled vines through the tales of Amelia’s newly discovered ancestry. As a widow struggling to sustain herself and her ten-year-old son, Amy’s modest life is tragically disrupted when a dubious lawyer determines her late mother, adopted at birth, was the estranged daughter of the recently deceased Lexington McClary. Although the net worth of the once enormous estate is petty, Amy decides to travel several hundred miles to attend the funeral, in the hope of at least learning a semblance of her newfound ancestry. After the interment, alone in the secluded rural cemetery, Amy trips and bashes her head against a tombstone, suffering a co...