James Sie Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

James Sie is a published American author as well as a voiceover artist for cartoons and games. He goes by the pronouns he/him.

Born December 18, 1962, James Sie is the author of Still Life Las Vegas, his debut fictional novel. It was a Lambda Literary Award nominee in the category of Best Gay Fiction. His YA novel All Kinds of Other was released not long after Still Life Las Vegas.

He is a playwright who has written literary adaptations, receiving a Joseph Jefferson Citation for the work that he did on his adaptation of Island of the Blue Dolphins. He also received an After Dark Award for The Road to Graceland, his original work.

He has also contributed various essays for publications such as The Advocate, Pen USA, The Rumpus, and FSG’s Book Keeping. He has also worked as a voiceover artist who has lent his voice to cartoons, games, but also audiobooks as a narrator. He has worked on such projects as the Jackie Chan Adventures, Stillwater, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, the Final Fantasy VII remake, and the Uncharted series.

James Sie has also performed on camera, such as in Strawberry Fields opposite Suzy Nakamura. He has had roles in Chain Reaction and in 1999 performed a one-person stage show that was autobiographical called Talking With My Hands that was all about growing up in a household that was Chinese and Italian.

He received two Jeff Citation nominations for his Lifeline adaptations of A Wrinkle in Time and Dracula. James also adapted Talking AIDS to Death and The Snarkout Boys as well as Avocado of Death.

Sie has won awards for his plays and has had his productions put on in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, as well as other places all over the country. He is married to the singer-songwriter Douglas Wood and has been since 2008. He resides in Los Angeles with his family, which consists of his husband and his son Benjamin, whom the couple adopted from Vietnam.

Still Life Las Vegas is the debut fictional novel from James Sie. If you have been looking for an interesting new voice in fiction to read and check out, take a closer look at this author.

This is the debut story from Sie that is all about a young man who is looking for clues as to why his mother disappeared just twelve years earlier and who has found himself in the process of searching for them.

Walter Stahl wants to be an artist. He’s recently graduated from high school, and he resides with his sick father in Las Vegas, somewhere in the dregs of the city. Their lives have been completely overshadowed at this point by Walter’s mother disappearing.

When he was five years old she drove off and she never came back. Walter has not seen even a photo of his mother at this point, but that doesn’t matter. No matter where he goes he looks for her. Even when he is catering to the tourist groups on the Strip he is always keeping an eye out for her in case he glimpses her and recognizes her.

Walter eventually meets Acacia and Chrysto. They are a sister and a brother team who are paying the bills by working as living statues at the Venetian Hotel. Meeting them cracks his world wide open. He spends less time tending to his father and is increasingly drawing and taking a ride on the back of a Vespa.

His feelings for Chrysto start to get even deeper as they spend more time together, and there are more clues as to why his mother have gone missing. As more of them come out, he has to come up against the truth not only about his family history but about himself, too.

This is a wonderful story of coming of age and they are accompanied by beautiful graphic illustrations. It shows how his mother who was born in Vietnam and played the accordion left her family behind to chase her own vision across the country and how her father went looking for her in the Venetian Hotel and more. An incredible story where the mundane meets the magical and nothing is real but all is illuminated.

All Kinds of Other is a story from James Sie. If you have been looking for a new novel to check out, look into this engaging coming of age love story and see what you think.

Two boys in this novel, one is trans and one is cis, have started out with keeping their walls up. They have always wanted to keep themselves protected, but when their feelings for each other start to develop then they finally have a reason to take on their fears and to face them head on.

Two of their boys are starting out at a new school. Jules is trying to feel out what it is to be gay and what it means. He’s at a new school and he does not know whether he wants to be out there. His friends and his parents as well all seem to have their opinions. He just wants to do what he can to get on the basketball team while also minding his own business.

Then there’s Jack. He’s just trying to start again after breaking up with his best friend. He has gone after his actor father to Los Angeles, but at the same time he really wants to leave the past behind him. This new school where none of the other students even know him may be the perfect solution.

Sparks fly when the two boys meet and it seems like them getting together is a sure thing. However, when a video comes out that links Jack to some trans vloggers, people start to speculate about his past. This puts Jack and Jules into a light that they have been doing their best to avoid. Now they have the choice to either lie low or go after what their hearts want. What will they do? Read this romance to find out!