A CHARLIE MACCREADY MYSTERY
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About the author James M. McCracken

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At the age of thirteen I enrolled in Mt. Angel Seminary.  It was a boarding school run by the  Benedictine monks of Mt. Angel Abbey.  I spent  my teenage years there.  It was also there that I began writing by accident.  I'll explain.


My first love was drawing.  One afternoon, at a basketball game, I sat down next to a friend's sister and began drawing.  It wasn't long before she started to ask me what the picture was about.  I told her it was nothing, just a dumb picture.  She wouldn't take that for an answer and insisted I tell her the "whole story."  She being older and bigger than me, I quickly made up a story and thought that would be the end of it.  It was not.  She then told me to write it down.  I shined her on with a nod and an, "okay," but I had no intention of doing so.

A  few weeks later she was visiting again and asked to see my story.  That's when panic set in.  I told her I hadn't finished it.  She told me that the next time she came to visit, I had better have it for her.  I quickly bought some typing paper and began writing.  Four years and four-hundred and fifty typed pages later, the story was still not completed.  However, now I was in love with writing.

I had always wanted to write a story about those years growing up in a seminary/boarding school.  Thus, the Charlie MacCready series was born.  While it  is not an autobiography, it is inspired by the stories I heard and my own experiences while at the seminary.  I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them.


                                                                                                                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                                                                                                                            James M. McCracken

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