The last year and a half has been hell for Thomas James. Just when his writing career began to take off, his wife asked for a divorce. He had been seeing his publisher's daughter Janine for a few months and had been found out - not only by his wife, but by his publisher as well. Their relationship suffered as if they were married. Four books in four years and he was cut loose, just like that. Thomas wasn't even sure he would benefit if the movie option took off. Then Janine left him for some college guy her own age.
Thomas has a better than modest savings account despite loosing the house and his car (a vintage baby blue Mustang) in the divorce. He escaped having to pay alimony. He made a few thousand dollars optioning his book, "Blood Shot", to Paramount. He has everything to gain if it actually goes into production.
He found a new publisher in early January and promised a book by the end of the year. He has decided to make a clean change. Spy novels are where it's at, he thought. Horror had been hard for him to write lately - he seemed to be dwelling on stories that involved dead ex-wives and murdered college kids. He mainains in interviews that the darkest place on earth is in his own mind. He has a penchant for the macabre.
Thomas graduated from Notre Dame with a Bachelors degree in English Literature and from Princeton with a Masters in Journalism. He spent six months in a Franciscan monastery after graduation from Princeton. He has studied religion, the occult, and science at various schools in preparation for his career as a horror writer. His fraternity's haunted house is legendary at Notre Dame. His is the bar none have been able to cross ever since he left. He went on to get his PhD in Psychology. |
