James maxey lives in Hillsborough, NC, USA. After graduating from the Odyssey Fantasy Writers' Workshop and Orson Scott Card's Writer's Boot Camp, James broke into the publishing word in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his shore story, "Empire of Dreams and Miracles." Phobos Books later published James's debut novel, the cult classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asmov's and numerous anthologies.