Author, actor, singer-songwriter - the only life for Adam-Michael James is a creative one. His love affair with writing sparked as soon as he taught himself to write at the age of three. By 14 he was writing song lyrics, and by 17 he began his first novel - Undo the Deed, a time travel story with a child abuse theme that was published in 2002. AMJ is also a broadcasting school graduate with five years' radio experience - as a deejay for a Florida country station, and as writer, producer, and air talent for a weekly show in Los Angeles that earned him a Golden Mike Award for Best Entertainment Reporting.

Show biz was also the subject of AMJ's 2005 book Extra Extra!: Memoirs from A Piece of Human Furniture, a how-to inspired by making over 100 appearances in television and movies as a background actor in Hollywood. By this time he had recorded dozens of his own songs; he recorded one for Extra Extra! and shot an accompanying video which was released on DVD. It seemed the next natural step to combine songwriting with theatre after having appeared in theatrical productions since grade school - AMJ next wrote the book and lyrics for the musical drama The Nine Lives of L.M. Montgomery, a collaboration with Emmy-nominated composer Leo Marchildon. The multimedia spectacle about the "Anne of Green Gables" author gained much notoriety in her native Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, running there for two impressive seasons in 2008 and 2009, with AMJ also directing and performing.

AMJ portrayed Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau in a workshop of Trudeaumania in 2010, as well as sang and served as narrator in a concert version of Nine Lives that toured Prince Edward Island. This year, AMJ went '80s in his new song Generation X (In Full Effect), which sparked a colourful '80s-themed video and a CD of remixes, both of which became available in September.

AMJ has done script analysis for several Hollywood production companies, and currently writes a bi-weekly opinion column for soapcentral.com. Later this year he will appear in a Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island production of Sweeney Todd, while 2012 plans include writing and recording a new album and getting a newly reinvented Nine Lives into Canadian and American theatres.