James Tarr

We’re all a product of our experiences. The more experiences you have, and the harder the road was to get to where you are now, the more you have to draw on when it comes time to write. In my life, I’ve been an armored car driver, process server, police officer, and spent most of 20 years working as a private investigator in and around the artful ruin that is modern Detroit. I’ve had close family members murdered, invested decades into a marriage that went bad, raised kids who turned out great, and got fired from jobs I desperately needed…. And through it all, I wrote. There were words in my head that I just needed to get onto paper, mostly fiction, but I never thought I could make any money at it. But life has a way of giving you what you need.

About twenty years ago, I started writing for outdoor magazines. That work put me in contact with Dillard “CJ” Johnson, whose autobiography, CARNIVORE, I co-wrote. CARNIVORE was published in 2012 by Harper Collins and has done very well.

There isn’t anything in the world that I love doing more than writing fiction. Currently, I’ve got seven novels out, with more on the way.I live outside of Detroit with my fiancée and a variable number of dogs—two of them at the moment, although that could change.