James E. Gurley has written and told stories all his life, mostly for fun, but when he retired as an Atlanta chef at 52, he began to take his writing career seriously. Since then he has published over thirty-five short stories in various magazines and twelve novels in the horror, science fiction and Young Adult genres, including "'Oracle of Delphi'". He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the Society of Southwestern Authors (SSA), and the Baja Arizona Science Fiction Association (BASFA), and the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society (CASFS).