James Davis

The time is nearly upon us for Scarlet Defender of the Universe to hit the shelves! To think that I first submitted it three years ago. Now that it’s finally coming out, Edgar is at high school and reading The Lord of the Rings. Soon it will be sent to readers for their views and…

Personally I am anticrastination. Even though I am a pro at it. The ironic thing about this post is that I am procrastinating whilst I write it. The word procrastination originates from Latin probably, I don’t know I’m too lazy to look it up. The great thing about procrastinating is that you can do anything…

One of the best things about being a writer is that you can set your own schedule. So when you’re faced with the problem of childcare during the school holidays it’s not an issue. When before you wrote in the daytime. During the school holidays you can choose to write during the evening, when you…

I used to think that somebody somewhere has the answers to all grammatical dilemmas. But the truth is language evolves, and most of the time we are in the middle of it evolving. I’ve managed to lose a lot of sleep over whether I should be using around or round. Just when I thought I…

I think every writer occasionally has writer’s block, even the ones that say they don’t. I never get writer’s block, but when I do get it, I have a few techniques to get rid of it. One option is to quit writing forever. Then you don’t have writer’s block, because you’re not a writer anymore.…

When I was younger I was really into Art. I drew all the time. Because my name is Jim Davis I used to pretend I drew the Garfield cartoons. People believed me too, and if they didn’t then I would draw Garfield and then they did. Unless they were an adult, because they knew that…

Scarlet Defender of the Universe is my very first published middle-grade book. I wrote it to try and impress my son Edgar, who was 8yrs old at the time. He was really impressed for almost a whole week. I will have a picture of the amazing front cover on here soon, but we haven’t done…