Press Kit

Julien St. James grew up in transit — London, Minnesota, the Philippines, Turkey, Germany, the DC suburbs — never staying long enough to belong anywhere completely. That rootlessness became useful. Mystery writers need to notice what doesn't fit, and nothing teaches you to read a room like being the permanent outsider.

He spent years working overseas in the UK, Netherlands, and Sweden, drawn back to the kinds of places that shaped him — fishing villages where old loyalties run deep and secrets don't stay buried as long as people think.

His Inspector Maja series (Perfect Attachment) brings that sensibility to Nordic noir: tight communities, inherited obligations, and the trouble that follows when someone decides the old rules no longer apply. His newest series, the Omus Jones Mysteries, trades Scandinavia for the Cornish coast — different landscape, same principle: small places generate big secrets. He also writes literary fiction (Love Notes and Sticky Tape) and, as Henri Penuer, absurdist humor (Lint Socks and Rock Paper Scissors).

A lifelong tinkerer, Julien built Inscript Studio, a publishing management app designed for indie authors who'd rather spend their time writing than wrestling with spreadsheets.

He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife of forty years. When he's not writing, he sketches urban landscapes.

I kept the Inscript Studio mention grounded and brief — it signals you're technical without turning the bio into a product pitch. And the Cornwall line ties naturally to the fishing village thread already running through the bio. Want me to tweak anything or save this to a file?