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  <name><![CDATA[James  Daniels]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I was reader from a really young age. My grandmother let me sleep overnight at her country home in the attic. This also happened to be where she kept her personal library. I was introduced to Stephen King and the methods of his particular brand of marketed madness. I also read Anne Rice before Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. 

I have always thought of myself as a writer. I think the litmus test for that is if you write even if you're not told to do it let alone paid to do it. I write because I want to and very few things make me happier than coffee, a comfortable chair and a blank page waiting to be filled with whatever dragon is roaming in my brain that day.

Btw, I find it slight disconcerting that profile here requests a date of DEATH. I'm fortunate if I remember some manager holidays. I don't have a date to die planned yet. There's no expiration date on my birth certificate. I'm not a gallon of milk with a &quot;sell by&quot; date, but I appreciate the thought. :&gt;

I am a private person by nature. Some things are better left unsaid. But when it comes to reading, to writing, to the craft of telling tale, I am open to all topics. ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Stephen King has a special place in my brain. Koontz as well. I'm also a sucker for a well-written thriller/spy novel/mystery]]></influences>      <born_at>04/12/1972</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Spooks - a Serial Thriller issue #1]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Headhunters]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[James  Daniels]]></name>
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