ABOUT MADDIE JAMES
I write to silence the people in my head.
In 2022, Maddie James celebrated her 25th year of publishing romance fiction under multiple pen names. Her collective body of fiction work includes over 80 published titles.
As Maddie James, she writes small town contemporary romance novels and cowboy romance. In 2025, she will launch a cozy mystery series.
As M.L. Jameson, she pens edgy paranormal and romantic suspense.
As Madeleine Jaimes, she writes upmarket women's fiction.
And as M.J. Ames, she writes naughty and taboo short fiction (don't judge!) 😁
Maddie is a foodie, a struggling gardener, an amateur photographer, a sometimes artist, a by-the-seat-of-her-pants writer, and a closet hermit. She writes daily in her studio looking out over rolling farmland in the Heartland, and wouldn't have it any other way. She has been known to rescue stray fur-babies and wayward plants and an occasional roadside antique wicker table but has ceased rescuing two-legged strays (her mother is happy about that). All these quirky topics, and more, make their way into her books.
Her first book, THE WILD WEST, a Kensington Precious Gems romance, received a Calico Trails Cameo Award. RED: A SEDUCTION TALE, claimed first place as the Romance Book Scene's favorite novella of the year. THE COWBOY'S SECRET BABY was a 2021 finalist in the Imaginareum Imadjinn Awards. In 2024, her first women's fiction novel, BEACH THERAPY, received an NN Light's Book Heaven Book Award, and her craft book, DISCOVER YOUR WRITE PATH TO PUBLISHING SUCCESS finaled in the nonfiction category.
Maddie has enjoyed numerous Top Pick, 5 Star, and Best Read reviews from various reviewers. Her books have landed on Amazon Top 100 Paid Bestseller lists, including BROKEN, a #1 bestseller in western romance. She was listed as a Top 100 Contemporary Romance author at Amazon and a Rising Star in western romance at Apple Books.
Affair de Coeur said Maddie, “shows a special talent for traditional romance,” and RT Book Reviews claimed, “James deftly combines romance and suspense, so hope on for an exhilarating ride.”
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"Working with authors was a highlight of my career," Maddie said. "Together, we learned how to create, publish, distribute, and promote so many beautiful books and fascinating stories."
While publishing fiction full time was always a goal for Maddie, her day-to-day reality was teaching. While spending forty years working in education systems—twenty years in public school and twenty years non-profit work—she continued to write. In academia (penned under her legal name) she has published dozens of non-fiction works, from white papers to journal articles, from book chapters to books, and curricula. Happily retired now from her work in education, Maddie writes full time.
Maddie's thirty-plus-years of writing and publishing experiences, in the traditional, academic, and independent publishing industries, have positioned her well to work with and support new authors by sharing content, conducting workshops and courses, and designing cover art.
While writing has long been her passion, Maddie considers raising her two awesome, beautiful, and wonderfully independent children as her greatest accomplishments.