James Collins

James Collins is an award-winning author and awards nominated screenplay writer. He writes thrillers, comedy and horror novels.

His writing awards include an Arts Council of Great Britain award for creativity, the EGPA award for best gay fiction. His screenplay for 'The 13th' was selected in the Best Screenplay category at the London Greek Film Festival, 2017. His best-selling horror, 'The Judas Inheritance', is the novel version of 'The 13th'.

James writes thrillers, comedy novels, gay fiction and horror. He has also written screenplays, stage musicals and comedy cabaret revues, which have earned him other awards. He writes a daily blog about life in Greece, symidream.com, and keeps an author's blog, Writing Thoughts. He also writes for travel blog sites.

Originally from Romney Marsh in Kent, UK, he now lives in Greece with his husband and a deaf cat.

"James's great talent lies in his careful observation of the absurd and the amusing, the dramas and the difficulties, and in reporting what he sees with kind humour and a writer's eye for the details essential to lively travel writing." Anne Zouroudi, author of Bloomsbury's Greek Detective mysteries.