M.R.M. Parrott

Publisher Note (October 2026): All of M.R.M. Parrott's books are being updated, and have been released in paperback, nearly all for the first time, as well as in ebook form. All of the titles have been expanded with new content features such as journal entries, reference materials, or author notes, and all have been redesigned by the author.

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M.R.M. Parrott's written work is independent and does not fit within the traditional areas of American academia or the commercial traditions in the "New" South. Deeply influenced by the Ancient Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, as well as the European side of Modern Philosophy, much of Parrott's work has focused on Immanuel Kant. Studies of Kant, along with Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and new treatises on metaphysical issues, describe a Dynamism based upon the beauty and fallibility of individuals and societies and the infinite complexity of the Universe. Ethical principles, for Parrott, are built up through the development of the social animals, derived from and applied to interpersonal situations.

Parrott's fiction and poetry works are often hybrids of many forms and traditions, where he has explored themes of "affluent decadence" and individual loneliness, time travel and scientific triumph, backdrops of "timeless" love and familial belonging. His prose is influenced by Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Jane Austen, and his novella, To Lie Within the Moment, shows influences from Greek Mythology, Plato, and Contemporary Philosophy, along with nods to Mrs. Dalloway, Moby Dick, Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, and thriller films. In his Timeless Trilogy, works rooted in ethical dilemma and futuristic economic and geo-political theory, Parrott comments on causal paradoxes and Quantum Entanglement, present and future World Politics and History, and numerous Science Fiction ideas, with direct structural allusions to Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Aeschylus' The Oresteia Trilogy, and films such as the Peter Jackson-filmed Lord of the Rings. In Poetry and short stories, there are daring, lyrical, sometimes intentionally incoherent or juvenile, sometimes restrained and erudite forms and tales. The many varied literary snapshots within his freeform Chapbooks of poems and stories stand beside high criticism and seeming flights of fancy.

"I've always been inspired by writers whose creative integrity far outweighed the fleeting market concerns of the publishing business. Toward that end, I have written and released each of my books independently of agents and 'big publishers'. rimric press - one of the first independent publishers to be listed with Barnes & Noble - was launched in 1997 with this rather classical independence and literary inspiration in mind. I certainly hope you enjoy my work, from my experimental beginnings to fully-fledged series. Please join me in celebrating the new wealth of independent writers, as we gradually join our friends, who through their artwork, music, films, and publications, remind us of the value in creative independence :)"