James Lee Mace has been writing fantasy stories all of his adult life. His greatest influences being (early) Michael Moorcock, Robert E Howard, J R R Tolkein, Poul Anderson, to name a few.

Having spent many years working in a management capacity in a large well known public company, he took voluntary redundancy in 2003 and became self – employed. He spent several years building up a small one man business, which came to an end in September 2008. Since that time he has worked on re-writing his novel “Ring of the Ice Queen”.

James Lee Mace lives in South Wales in the “Ancient Wood in the Vale of the Monk”.

Favourite movies (in no particular order);

• Excalibur
• V for Vendetta
• 1984
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Silent Hill
• Aliens
• Apocolypse Now

Favourite Computer Games

• Silent Hill
• Silent Hill 2 The Director’s Cut
• Silent Hill 4: The Room
• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil 2
• Resident Evil: Nemesis

Favourite Artists:

• Dorian Cleavenger
• Luis Royo
• Boris Valejo
• Hajime Sorayama