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Ziggy Nixon
Ziggy Nixon asked James Maxey:

I've got to ask but where did you grow up? I ask for 2 reasons: 1st, we're just a few weeks apart in age and 2nd, it was with more than a little interest that you've mentioned in the Hero books places in esp; NC that I know all too well, including even the Pizza Hut on Battleground Ave. (which is now either a bank or a chinese restaurant, I forget). Oh and stuff near where my dad lived in Asheville, that was wild!

James Maxey I grew up mostly in Roanoke, Virginia. I've lived briefly in Union, Mississippi and Statesville, NC went to college near Asheville, worked after college a few years in Richmond, Virginia, then lived near Greensboro for several years, and now live in Hillsborough, NC. I scatter a lot of real place names and settings through my writing. My Bitterwood novels unfold in a post apocalyptic south, and, as you noted, my Nobody universe superhero novels mention a lot of places I've either lived or at least visited. I find that the inherent weirdness of the idea of superheroes gets a bit if a boost by yanking them out of big famous cities and putting them into smaller settings.

I saw that the Pizza Hut on Battleground was gone last time I was through the area. Back in the late nineties, I used to work at the FedexOffice in that shopping center and would go there for their lunch buffet. I now eat a much healthier diet than unlimited pizza every day for lunch, but I was still a little sad to see it was gone.
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