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When I first became an author, and for many years after, this was what my bio photo looked like. 
I wanted people to read my books, but I didn't want to be seen. I didn't think I would be accepted for who I am. But then I was offered an unexpected gift
--an idea that came out of nowhere and changed everything: I don't need to be accepted for who I am, I just need to BE who I am. Let the rest of the world think what they think. As long as I believe in myself and my path, I will draw the right people into my experience who will love me (and my writing), weirdness and all. 
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Elayne G. James • Author of The LightBridge Legacy Series: A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

This is what my bio looks like now...

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Elayne G. James

I have a mischievous muse. There's hardly a moment when I'm not jotting down story ideas on random sticky notes and scraps of paper. My subconscious typically works on 7 to 10 books at a time, all vying for brain space, even in my sleep—many scenes in my books come straight out of dreams. My nightly adventures are a constant source of inspiration for me.  
In the past 3 decades, I have lived many lives. I've been a recording artist, a Hollywood sound effects editor, a playwright, a screenwriter, a west coast theatrical lighting designer, a graphic artist, a professional photographer, and a publisher. Through it all though, I've been a writer, periodically battling dark forces, but never stepping too far off the path. 

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AUTHOR ELAYNE G. JAMES VISIT ElayneJames.comOR Elayne James Blog 

My Elsewhere Girl Pics thru the years...

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middle grade me @ age 9
talked to animals
╎ liked em better than people ╎ had a reoccurring dream where i could breath underwater ╎ swam in the ocean nearly every day ╎ caught in an undertow ╎saved by a lifeguard
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'tween me @ age 13
singing my songs from the inside out╎lost myself╎found myself in music ╎started writing songs @ 10 ╎started performing @ 12 ╎ had
a band @ 14 
╎ offered a record contract @ 24
 
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new adult me
pensive and alert @ 23 ╎ 
left home at 18
╎ my first apt burned to the ground the first night ╎ moved back home  ╎ moved out again @ 19 ╎ paid the rent w/a job in a recording studio ╎ went to college @ 26 

Growing up as an Elser meant I felt alone a lot of the time and eventually made peace with it. I loved to explore, learn, stretch my thoughts and my imagination into ever-expanding realms. Once I realized my imagination could take me anywhere I wanted to. go, I began to feel, well, free. And writing fantasy & sci fi was, for me, the ultimate portal into another world!

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          S E L F   P O R T R A I T
@ 15 I became fascinated with light and began studying the photographic arts
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@ 16 I began to wonder what was beyond the invisible walls of my perceived reality and started writing other-world stories 

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@ 22, I went thru a phase where I wished I'd been born in another time and place and started writing time travel stories


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