James D. Mills #
…is a writer, editor, and a wanderer. He writes Fantasy and Contemporary Literature in attempts to wrangle with whatever broils beneath the surface. His main goal is to be awarded “Best Dad Ever” for 18 consecutive years by the people who matter most. After that, he wants to topple that record indefinitely.
He is most well known for his role as Editor-in-Chief for The Literary Fantasy Magazine. His short fiction is scattered in a variety of excellent literary magazines. He scribbles away at novels, soon to be unveiled. In his free time he walks around the woods, manually types out linux commands on old PCs, and sings to his family…
The Man Behind the Keyboard #
James D. Mills was born and raised in the heat of California’s Central Valley. Now he resides in Bloomington, Indiana, where he and his partner, Eden, live a slow life of self-sufficiency with their growing family. He earned his Bachelors in Creative Writing and Psychology cum laude from Southern New Hampshire University and is enrolled in SNHU’s Masters of Business Administration program.
His short fiction has been published by The Penmen Review, Floyd County Moonshine, Calliope, among others. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for The Literary Fantasy Magazine. He has contributed writing to several best-selling TTRPG products.
He writes fantasy and contemporary literature tackling the complexities of life through the lens of a whimsical world. After losing his mother to brain cancer, he hopes to identify the range of human emotion, depicting the healing that comes with love, care, and family. He continuously works on novels that will be available somehow, somewhere, some day.
Why Write Fantasy? #
Having grown up with old tech and late-90’s computer role-playing games, James is drawn to the fantasy genre because of its vast capacity to tell infinite stories in myriad realities. He seeks to capture those distant, dreamlike memories of wandering in eerie digital worlds, inhabited by strange people in stasis. He wants to free their stories from the digital coil by writing their words on paper.
Informed by dualistic lifestyle as an IT professional by day and an academic by night; he has attained a diverse professional background caught between vivid green pastures and luminescent green terminals. His special interests lie in the archaic, vintage, retro, and {insert synonym for OLD here}.
How do computer programs mimic the inner workings of the human mind? Don’t ask him unless you have a whole afternoon to waste.
