JAMES INTERVIEWED BY THE GLAMOROUS ARTIST INTERVIEWS MAGAZINE ABOUT HIS 2011 USA BOOK TOUR AND WHY HE CALLS IT HIS “TOO UGLY TOUR”.
James spoke candidly with publisher Marisa Darnel about his twenty years as a struggling writer, his triumphant battle against cancer, his time spent as a smuggler behind the old Iron Curtain and how these varied experiences helped influence his writing because of the impact they had on him personally. "We seldom learn life's lessons when the going is easy," he says. "It's in struggle and hardship that we're especially teachable." One experience in particular was James being turned down for a customer service job in Adelaide because he was too ugly, referring to the facial scars from his cancer operation. [...]