James | May 14, 2012
The followup to DRAWING OUT THE DRAGONS, Book II of The Meditations, THE BARBIZON DIARIES – A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories is now available for sale at the Coppervale Marketplace, and will very shortly be up at Amazon and B&N.com. It is gorgeous, moving, inspiring, and wrenching, in all the [...]
James | February 15, 2012
As a grateful answer to the overwhelming responses I have gotten from my keynote address at the LTUE Symposium at Utah Valley University this past weekend, for the next twenty-four hours, I am offering the ebook trio – all formats in one zip file, pdf, epub, and mobi – of DRAWING OUT THE DRAGONS, the [...]
James | February 2, 2012
…The penultimate adventure of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica will be loosed upon the world…
James | December 12, 2011
There’s been a lot of discussion about your recent addition to Amazon of an app that people can use to scan items in stores – items which they are then asked to purchase from Amazon instead of at their local store. In addition to (in all probability) getting a lower price on the same item, [...]
James | July 1, 2011
Ebooks are rapidly becoming as ubiquitous a format as print for book reading; a trend I am embracing with my ebook releases of Drawing out the Dragons, The Unusual Motion of Strange Beasts, and MythWorld Book One: The Festival of Bones. Still, it’s not a perfect medium yet: everyone seems to use different formats. Amazon [...]
James | June 30, 2011
…is Magic that can be shared. At a few minutes to Midnight – which is when all the best kind of Magic happens – I announced a new project, one which a lot of people have been waiting for. Please, contribute what you can, and help us spread the word to make something really wonderful [...]
James | June 25, 2011
I’m writing this piece to inform everyone who bought MythWorld Book One: The Festival Of Bones in the last twenty-four hours that you are now the owners of a collector’s item – because the vesion that was first released is not the current, permanent version that’s for sale now. I made an editorial judgment call, [...]
James | June 23, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS author James A. Owen launches a new Urban Fantasy series – as ebooks June 23, 2011 – Silvertown, Arizona – The shifting landscape of publishing is something that should be embraced, not feared, according to popular YA author James A. Owen, who is leading by example by releasing [...]
James | June 18, 2011
I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Catherynne M. Valente (who is currently taking over the publishing world via a Ship of her own making) twice: first, illustrating her story “The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth” for the book RAVENS IN THE LIBRARY; and again, illustrating the interiors and cover for her brilliant [...]
James | June 18, 2011
Mythologies are huge, sweeping things. And the grandest stories are those with the widest arcs of triumph and despair. As much as we may want to, we may not be able to avoid the despair – but triumph is a matter of will. The best thing about mythologies though, is that they’re always being rewritten. [...]
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