Gender	Male
Industry	Publishing
Occupation	Retired Laborer.
Location	Huntersville, North Carolina, United States
Introduction	I'm a laborer. Formerly I worked as a letter carrier for the USPS. I'm also a writer with over seventy published short stories, hundreds of pages of comic book scripts, scores of reviews, and several novels, among them THE FLOCK. In July 2009, Angry Films announced that they'd optioned the film rights to my novel, THE FLOCK via Warner Brothers. I also edited the Poe-themed anthology EVERMORE for Arkham House Books. My short story collection, A CONFEDERACY OF HORRORS was published by Hippocampus Books in 2015. I'm always had at work on another novel and the occasional short story. My latest novels are WORKING CLASS HERO: The Autobiography of a Superhuman, and THE EMISSARY. All contents of this blog are copyright by James Robert Smith.
Interests	Writing. Reading. Hiking, backpacking, camping, kayaking. Photography. International politics.
Favorite movies	Blue Velvet, Blade Runner, Bullitt, Come and See, There Will be Blood, No Country for Old Men, etc.
Favorite music	All kinds of stuff.
Favorite books	BLOOD MERIDIAN, I CLAUDIUS, WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN, OCTOBER COUNTRY, THE DHARMA BUMS, JUNKY, WINESBURG OHIO, A MOVEABLE FEAST, etc.

What's the earliest you've gotten up to watch cartoons and what did you see?

Six a.m. and it wasn't a cartoon, it was the Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serials.