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"It's especially rewarding," he says, "because doctors didn't think I'd live 18 months. The first sound I remember was the metronome of the heart monitor when I came out from the anesthetic of my eleven-hour operation. The first sight I saw was my wife, Wendy. She was standing beside me, holding my hand. We still hold hands." A collection of G'day USA photos is available at: http://jameshoustonturner.blogspot.com/2011/01/cool-dude-writer-goes-to-gday-usa.html.

"The best writing comes from massive rewriting," says James about journalist Bob Larson, with whom he worked as a journalist at the famed Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. "And that is exactly how the script version of The Identity Factor has played out. There was lots of chopping and condensing, and it was hard to eliminate favorite scenes and characters, but the results have been genuinely spectacular. "I [...]

Speaking about his life as a smuggler and courier behind the old Iron Curtain and how these experiences inspired him to write espionage thrillers, James addressed an exclusive breakfast crowd at the annual NAFSA convention in Washington, D.C. "As an American living in Adelaide, James was a natural," says Denise von Wald, Chief Executive of Study Adelaide. "We did an Oprah Winfrey style of interview, as well as furnished [...]

James has been featured several times in Rainbow Magazine, including the feature, "Books by Brothers," and the "Global Delts" issue, where he was quoted on the cover as saying, "Like the view of Earth from space, the view of America from afar is spectacular." Other featured Delts included bestselling authors Richard North Patterson and Forrest Gump's Winston Groom, along with actors Drew Carey, Matthew McConaughey, Will Ferrell, David Schwimmer, [...]