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Another Trip Around the Sun - Birthdays have a funny way of making you stop and look backwards before you look ahead.

Twelve months ago, I couldn't have imagined where this year would take me. After ten years supporting vulnerable and at-risk young people in schools, redundancy arrived without invitation. It left me with questions, uncertainty, and more time than I ever expected. Looking back now, that unexpected pause became one of the most creative periods of my life.

I gave new life to Conspiracy at World's End, taking a story first published in 2015 and finally shaping it into the version it was always meant to be.

I experimented with Substack, hoping it might become something sustainable. It didn't. But sometimes the things that don't work leave behind the best surprises. Out of that little experiment stepped Cosmo Farfetch, who has somehow become one of the most entertaining people I've ever had the pleasure of writing.

Then there was Welcome to Dabney Meadows. What began as a way to keep my imagination occupied while job hunting slowly grew into an entire world, filled with mysteries, strange stories, and characters I'd happily spend years getting to know.

Along the way, I rebuilt my website into something that finally feels like home for all my projects, and I continued championing Earth Boy—the story that remains so close to my heart because it reminds every outsider that they belong somewhere.

Next week I begin a new job. It's a new chapter, and one I'm genuinely looking forward to. But before life speeds up again, I wanted to pause for a moment and appreciate what this past year became.

It wasn't the year I planned. It was the year that reminded me I create. I adapt. I keep building worlds, even when the real one shifts beneath my feet. And perhaps that's the greatest lesson this birthday has given me. Here's to another year of stories. – 26 – 07 – 2026

Queer. Funny. Heartfelt. Unapologetically different.

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Welcome to Dabney Meadows

In 2026, struggling journalist Sonny Weathers begins investigating the near-forgotten town of Dabney Meadows for a commemorative history book. But when mysterious boxes of old CWA newsletters, government faxes, motel advertisements, recipes, photographs, and police memos begin arriving at his door, Sonny uncovers a decades-old murder, strange crop circles, queer secrets, missing residents, and a government conspiracy buried beneath the town’s cheerful country facade.

Told entirely through archival material, newsletters, and correspondence, Welcome to Dabney Meadows is a darkly funny Australian gothic mystery where every document is a clue.

Set across two timelines — the strange final days of the town in 2000 and journalist Sonny Weathers’s investigation in 2026 — the series follows the unraveling of a rural Australian community haunted by murder, repression, UFO sightings, cult behaviour, and buried secrets.

What begins as a quirky collection of small-town ephemera slowly transforms into a sprawling conspiracy. Part camp satire, part queer soap opera, part cosmic mystery, Welcome to Dabney Meadows invites readers to piece together the truth one artifact at a time.

Told across 12 months, each new issue reveals fresh evidence, hidden connections, and another piece of the mystery buried within Dabney Meadows. If you want to get involved, see my store below to start your journey.

Find parts 1 - 5 of this digital story at my store...

Conspiracy at World's End - Daz James

The old world is gone. Burned, drowned, and choked into ruin. What rose from the ashes was no salvation—only a regime that outlawed freedom, love, and even food itself.

Marlin Vickers, a former journalist branded a deviant, refuses to bow to the lies. With nothing but his wits, scars, and a forbidden photograph of the man he once loved, he clings to survival in a world where truth is treason. When a chance encounter with the fierce and unpredictable Santanna Washington throws him into the path of Sam Parry—an Enforcer with dangerous loyalties and conflicted desires—their fates entwine against a brutal order that crushes all dissent.

A riotous blend of Mad Max grit and a Priscilla - Queen of the Desert road trip, this dystopian odyssey fuses high-octane survival with sharp wit, wild ideas, and a defiant heart. Peaches become more precious than gold, betrayal is always one step away, and love itself could be the most dangerous act of rebellion.

Gritty, irreverent, and unapologetically queer, Conspiracy at World’s End asks: when the world ends, will you just survive—or will you dare to live your truth?

Breaking News: Paperback and Kindle editions now available on Amazon. In all Amazon territories, just look for this cover.

Conspiracy at World's End : James, Daz: Amazon.com.au : Books

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