James Masters began writing by default.
Originally James' life revolved around sport: he was Head of PE. at a large comprehensive school in Cleveland and was heavily involved in athletics, competing as a pole vaulter in the Northern League and coaching at international level.
He was one of the squad coaches to the Great Britain Decathlon team and spent some time in Bangkok coaching the Thai combined events athletes and lecturing to their coaches.
Unfortunately this lifestyle was cut short when James was struck down with M.E. after contracting an enterovirus on a GB training camp in Crete when he was 35.
After being seriously ill for a number of years, James retired from teaching and began writing as a therapy. He had several newspaper and magazine articles published before his first book "Working In Sport" in 1999. Since then James has written two more editions of the same title as well as publishing the website "Skiing on a Shoestring".
He plans at least one more sports related website and hopes to have his first novel published very soon.
Footnote: Slave Trade (1997) is not by the same author
