Tag Archives: James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction

No. 12: WHY I ARCHIVE, ARCHEO-APOLOGIZE

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh So many times, have my great-great grandfather, the publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction, and other long-now deceased residents of the renowned, the notorious, the oft-fabled-of Fiction House come to me.  In my imagination they say, “Tell our … Continue reading →

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POST No. 10: ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE – WILLAMINA’S SHADY SUITORS

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Raji Singh

 by Raji Singh When last we saw the Fiction House Publishing chief writer, William ‘Golden Boy’ Golden, going undercover as his Willamina persona for the Abolitionist cause, we heard his TALE OF… …a pistol-whipping slave hunter who had the gun-butt … Continue reading →

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No 8: A TALE OF TWO BIRDS

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh ‘Tell our stories, Raji.  If you don’t, it will be as if we’ll never have lived.’      These whispering cries of joy and sorrow rise from the bookshelves and portraits in the Fiction House.      I cannot … Continue reading →

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No. 7: LEATHER, WHIPS, AND GUN-RUNNING ON THE RANGE – WHERE THE ARMS ARE BOUND

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh As I archive the mid 19th and early 20th century Fiction House Publishing, I am finding bits and pieces of rough drafts and published works.  Some of the roughs were gnarred-on by carrier pigeons that delivered them … Continue reading →

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No. 6: ARCHIVING THE FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh      Technique and style observations about Fiction’s chief writer, William ‘Golden Boy’ Golden: Influenced by Sophocles and Shakespeare, Golden often anthropomorphized characters.  Two of his favorites were the sun, a distinctively British bloke, and his ‘lie-dy’, the … Continue reading →

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No. 5: SHERALEE, YOU’VE COME BACK TO ME

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh “Messages, Sheralee and the other heroic carrier pigeons delivered in their Abolitionist flights, led to a victory in our Abolitionist fight.”  James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction Blackjack reaches across the shadows of time and puts his hand on … Continue reading →

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No. 4: “SHERALEE, COME BACK TO ME.”

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh ARCHIVING THE ONCE-RENOWNED FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Rustling through my great-great grandfather, publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction’s artifacts, I come across a miniature pine coffin, hardly bigger than a jewelry box.  It’s simple, the kind that entombed … Continue reading →

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No. 3: CHARLES DARWIN’S VICTORIAN ROMANCE

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh RESURRECTING THE FICTION HOUSE My hired ‘experts’ jokingly, good-naturedly call me an archeo-apologist.  It is because of my zeal for my reclamation project – that of unearthing and archiving files, notes, books – over a century’s worth … Continue reading →

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No. 2: Charles Darwin – ‘The Beagle Has Landed’, the Evolutionist Encounters the Editor

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Raji Singh

UNEARTHING THE FICTION HOUSE I am discovering the most intriguing material as I archive through, cataloging the dusty old library and files of my great-great grandfather, James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction.  He founded Fiction House Publishing in the 1830’s and ran … Continue reading →

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