Maddie James Bio

Originally traditionally published, Maddie James wrote for over ten years honing her fiction craft (that's the way we did it back then, and with typewriters!) before selling her first novel, The Wild West by Kim Whalen, in 1996 to Kensington Books. She published six books with Kensington over the next few years, as well as publishing with several small independent presses.

In 2010, she created her own publishing imprint, Turquoise Morning, LLC, now DBA as Jacobs Ink, LLC, and launched her first independently published novel. With a few months, she opened the imprint to submissions, eventually publishing nearly eighty authors, and over 500 books through 2015. When the publishing industry shifted, she made the difficult decision to close the imprint to submitting authors, but continued to publish her own works under Sand Dune Books.

"Working with authors was a highlight of my career," Maddie said. "Together, we created published, distributed, and promoted so many beautiful books and fascinating stories."

While publishing fiction full-time was always a goal, 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  from her work in education, writing is now her full-time day job, and she considers herself the CEO of her writing world.

Maddie's forty 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.

Contact: maddie@maddiejames.net

Fiction Bibliography
Non-fiction Bibliography

Bold Journey Magazine Interview
New In Books Interview for The Me I Left Behind
New In Books Interview for I Wish You Love
Author Interview at NN Light's Book Heaven