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I know what you're thinking. Who's that berk in the chair?
I know what you're thinking. Who's that berk in the chair?
James Batchelor is a former UK journalist and future multi-millionaire author.
By day, he works for indie games publisher Digital Bandidos. He previously spent 18 years as a B2B journalist covering the video games industry, rising to Editor-in-Chief at GamesIndustry.biz.
By night (which is to say an hour or so per evening), he is a creator of worlds, a puppeteer of characters, a teller of tales… Basically he writes the books he wants to read because they don’t exist yet.
Born and raised in Essex, he has somehow survived the county’s stereotypes and that accent, often mistakenly labelled as ‘northern’ or ‘posh’.
He refuses to admit he prefers e-books to paperbacks.
Some fun facts about James Batchelor
Some fun facts about James Batchelor
He was inspired to become an author after reading Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl at a young age (5, maybe 6. Can't remember)
It is his dream to become a full-time author
Has a two beautiful and crazy children, as well as a beautiful and impossibly patient wife
First completed novel was Ben Hawkes: Words of Destruction, written almost entirely during French classes when he was 15-16. It was an unholy mash of James Bond and Jack Ryan in which every character was based on someone in his class, and only filled up half a Pukka Pad Jotta notebook, which he still has in the loft somewhere
Favourite authors include Brandon Sanderson, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Robin Hobb, Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, and John Le Carre. And Marvel over DC (although that wasn't always the case)
He has read almost 1,000 books in his first 40 years of life (although it's probably about half that if you don't count comic books and graphic novels)
Spent 18 years as a trade journalist in the video games industry
Avid gamer, primarily Nintendo games but also loves open world fantasy games and anything vaguely spy/stealth-related. Favourite game of all time is Thief 2: The Metal Age
He is an honorary Lord of Hougun Manor Estate in Coniston, Cumbria (one of the best birthday presents ever!)
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