James McAllen

James McAllen was born and raised in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn N.Y. After failing as a baseball player, rock singer, Shakespearean actor and masked superhero, he decided to try his hand at writing. His first screenplay, Three of a Kind, was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Project Greenlight contest. His first published collection of short stories, Split Rock Road, was named a winner of the 2014 Indiereader Discovery Award.

His first novel, Pretentious, was released in July, 2016.

James can be contacted at JimMcAllen@Yahoo.com or JamesMcAllen.com.