Jim Musgrave

@jimmusgrave

About

James Musgrave(a.k.a. Efraim Zimbalist Graves) is an author and college educatorin San Diego, California. His recent non-fiction title, The DigitalScribe: a Writer's Guide to Electronic Media (AP Professional, ISBN0-12-512255-1) has been internationally published. He has a M.A.degree in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. He wasawarded the Ebook of the Year Award,2001-2002 from Bookbooters for his thriller, RussianWolves. In addition, Mr. Musgrave has finished as a Finalist in theNew Century Writer Awards for his novel excerpt, Iron Maiden, andRunner-Up in the $10,000 Annual Heekin Foundation Awards for NewFiction Writers (1994). He has published short fiction in manyliterary journals, including: San Diego Writer's Monthly, ShroudAnthology Beneath the Surface, Stone Magazine, FirstDraft, SniplitsAudio Short Stories 2 Go, Back Channels, Pacific Review, CaliforniaQuarterly and Cowles Mountain Journal. He has also been publishedat CIC Publishers with four novels: Sins of Darkness, RussianWolves, Iron Maiden and Lucifer's Wedding and acollection of short fiction, The President'sParasite and Other Stories. Mr. Musgrave'sstory, "Speculum" was an HonorableMention in the Fog City Writer's Awards, and"Turning the Law Wheel" was anHonorable Mention in the Cedar Hill Press Short FictionContest. His literary fiction appears in Best New Writing 2011, published by Hopewell Press, Titusville, N. J.