Jim is a full-time SF&F writer, scientist (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering), laser geek, and former running-dog-lackey for the bourgeois capitalist establishment. He's been writing for over 30 years, with 10 published books. He's been highly successful at self-publishing, which led to traditional contracts with publishers like Open Road Media and Harper Collins Voyager, and his books are now a mix of traditional and self-published. His tenth novel, the third in his urban fantasy series The Dead Among Us, was released in February of 2017. He recently finished his eleventh novel, The Witch of Val d'Ossa, and his twelfth novel, A Hymn for the Dying, the first in a new SF series, The Blacksword Regiment. Right now he's fleshing out ideas for the next book in The Dead Among Us, he's writing another episode in The Treasons Cycle, and he's working on Counter Force, the second book in The Blacksword Regiment.