James Bailey

@jamesbailey1

About

Jim Bailey retired from awell-paying tenured position at a major University at the young age of 57 topursue challenges which would hold his interest, including woodworking, missionarywork, historical research, and novel writing. Since he was trained as amanufacturing engineer, Jim loves to design things and then figure out how tomake them; the same thinking applies to his historical romance writing - havingquestions and seeking answers.

Jim loves historical events andhow they affect people's decisions - focusing, of course, on those made by theancestors of whom he writes.  Jim has alot of questions about family behavior and actions that have been answeredthrough what he has found in his research. He then weaves the story by filling in the gaps with creative,imaginative fictional spins on what might have been.

Bailey's passion is to write thenovels that tell these historic stories - having completed Bailey'sBlood aboutthe feuding family from Missouri and Honor O'Flynn about his seventh-great grandmotherkidnapped in 1700 Irelandand brought to Marylandto be sold as a bride. He is deep into writing about Anneliese Kapahnke, his  wife's mother, who was a single mother in Berlin as bombsdestroyed nearly all of that city. Jim is also passionate to write about Sambath Loy , his adopted Cambodian daughter - who ateight years of age was taken by the Khmer-Rouge with two younger siblings to are-education and forced labor camp.