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Posted - 30 July 2008
A paper by John Sepich, originally distributed in September of 1993 ,"On Going Over My Notes", is now available Here.

Posted - 12 January 2008
A LONG VERSION of the press release announcing the Southwestern Writers Collection Acquiring Cormac McCarthy Papers. This press release was provided to JohnSepich.com by The Bill Wittliff Collection / Southwestern Writers Collection and published here with their permission. Available on the Cormac McCarthy page or you can open it here. (Requires Adobe Reader.) The shorter version released to the public is available on the Texas State University website here.

Posted - 11 January 2008
The Southwestern Writers Collection Acquires Cormac McCarthy Papers!
A link to this story has been added to the Links page or just Click Here.

Posted - 22 December 2007
And now for something completely different. Just in time for the holidays! A new section, Horse Barn Inventions by John Sepich, has been added to the site. Twenty-one "guides" have been made available here along with a suggested reading order.

Posted - 20 July 2007
An open letter "These Few Words" written by John Sepich is now in the Publications area. It addressees our work with McCarthy's vocabulary and the comparison to Shakespeare.

Posted - 17 July 2007
Some links on the Publications page were not working properly and have been fixed. Many thanks to Linda for bringing them to my attention! The link to the Journal Star Interview no longer works and I am working on getting a PDF of the article for the website. The complete version of the interview is still available .

Posted - 2 July 2007
Eleven new resources are available on the Publications page. They explore the vocabulary of Cormac McCarthy in all of his novels including 10 reports revealing all the words that are unique to each book. The "Words Cormac McCarthy Uses in his Novels" report shows that McCarthy uses over 30,000 words, 13,000 of which he only uses once - and only 1,100 words are common to all 10 novels!

Also - The website has been completely updated and given a new look. You may find that some of your older bookmarks and links to the concordances do not work anymore. This is because the revision date used to be part of the filename for each concordance. We are now putting the revision date inside each document and simply naming the files according to title. This way the file names will not change in the future.

Corrections have been made to all of the concordance files.

I have also added a Photographs page. John and I are both camera-bugs as are several members of our family. You will find a little bit of everything here. Several items will be added here in the month of July.

- Christopher Forbis


Posted - 26 June 2007
Eleven new resources will be published here on July 2, 2007. These new documents will detail the (approx.) 30,000 word vocabulary of Cormac McCarthy with one report containing every word he has ever used in a novel as well as 10 separate reports detailing words that are unique to each of his books. Also included will be the number of words used only once, number of words that appear in every McCarthy novel, etc.

Posted - 7 June 2007
The last of the book concordances - No Country For Old Men - is finished and available on the Publications page. This landmark, which was a goal set by John and I almost exactly one year ago has been reached. All the concordances are available for free. Enjoy!

Also - Watch for more publications in the near future. We're not done yet!

Posted - 31 May 2007
The complete text of the interview conducted by Brad Burke of the Peoria Journal Star has been added to the Publications page under "Media and Press". Many thanks to Brad in getting us the full transcription and allowing us to share it with everyone.

Also - The last of the book concordances - No Country For Old Men - should be posted in the next couple days.

Posted - 1 May 2007
Details are starting to come together regarding Blood Meridian - The Movie. Links have been added to the Links & Resources page to several sites with information. The release date is currently set for 2009.

Posted - 29 April 2007
I will be receiving a transcript of the interview John did with Brad Burke of the Peoria Journal Star which was quite a bit longer than the published version. The complete version of the interview will be posted in the coming weeks on this site along with answers to a limited number of questions from others. If you have a question for John that you would like included, please email it to Chris@JohnSepich.com and it will be added to the list.

Posted - 26 April 2007
*** John's interview about Cormac McCarthy's The Road appears in the Peoria Journal Star today. You can view it here. ***

Posted - 23 April 2007
Concordances for Cities of the Plain and All The Pretty Horses have been finished and added to the site. They are on the Publications page. This leaves only one concordance (No Country For Old Men) to complete, then we have concordances for all of McCarthy's novels.

Posted - 19 April 2007
An official statement from John in regards to Notes on Blood Meridian is posted on the Publications page.

Posted - 17 April 2007
Thanks to our many visitors from all over the world for finding our site and making use of the resources here. The site has been visited by people from all the following countries: United States (Educational, Military, Government, Commercial & Non-Profit), Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Seychelles, Iceland, Austria, Israel, Netherlands, Sweden, Viet Nam, Chile, France, Norway, and Greece!

Posted - 16 April 2007
The concordance for Cities on the Plain is being worked on by John Sepich and No Country for Old Men is being worked on by Christopher Forbis. They should both be on the site very soon.

Posted - 13 April 2007
The concordances for Outer Dark and The Orchard Keeper have been finished and posted on the site. Links to these concordances will also be added soon to Wesley G. Morgan's website. This raises our free concordance count to 7 with number 8 (All The Pretty Horses) on the way!

Posted - 13 April 2007
The concordance for Suttree has been finished and posted on the site. Links to this concordance will also be added soon to Wesley G. Morgan's Searching for Suttree website which features photos from Knoxville, TN of the actual locations depicted in the book.

Posted - 11 April 2007
John Sepich and Christopher Forbis agreed today to begin work on a concordance for All The Pretty Horses.

Posted - 1 April 2007
The concordance for The Road has been finished and posted on the site.

Posted - 10 February 2007
John Sepich and Christopher Forbis agreed today to create complete concordances for The Road.

Posted - 4 February 2007
Wesley G. Morgan and Christopher Forbis agreed today to create complete concordances for both The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark once the Suttree concordance they are currently working on is completed.

Posted - 2 February 2007
Information from John Sepich about the release of the revised and expanded "Notes on Blood Meridian" will be coming soon.

Posted - 1 February 2007
Website has been reorganized and expanded. New concordances for The Crossing and Child of God have been added to our Publications.

Posted - 1 February 2007
Christopher Forbis is working with Wesley G. Morgan, Ph.D. to create a complete concordance for Cormac McCarthy's Suttree. The completed concordance will be available on Morgan's "Searching for Suttree" website where he has a collection of photos and maps of the places depicted in McCarthy's book. We will provide a link to the concordance under Publications when it is finished and available to the public.