About James

James Marquiss attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.  He was sent there to master the three R’s: Reading, Righting, and Rithmatic.  While there, James fell in love with the arts and decided to become an actor of stage and screen instead, and forthwith moved to Hollywood.  With stardom all but guaranteed, he decided to pivot and do something really daring.  Have a family.  Several years later, and one EX behind him, James found himself contemplating taking up a life of drug addiction, as that seemed like it would be fun.   

Then James remembered his first love, the arts.  Once again, like being shot from a cannon, he was hell-bent for Hollywood leather.  With sleeves rolled up and keyboards melting and exploding under his toiling fingers, he wrote and wrote.   Subsequently, he sold and optioned screenplays, and he even starred in an unreleased film. 

Then the unimaginable happened.  The heavens opened, and James met a goddess.  Somehow, he convinced her to marry him.  They bore demigods as progeny.  He traded the spotlight for a hammer and spent the majority of his adult life under the yoke of an evil God known only as ‘The Dollar.’  At one point, a forest fire destroyed their family home and decimated their entire community.  Although they lost all their physical possessions, the mortal, the goddess, the demigods, and their dogs survived, which was all they needed.  The demigods came of age and left the house to pursue their own adventures.  The goddess, despite having had a lifetime to lament poor choices in matrimonial affairs, still professes her love for James.  They live together in Los Angeles.   James continues to write.