As a travel/lifestyle and history journalist, James T. Bartlett has worked for over 150 publications and broadcasters including the Los Angeles Times, BBC, NPR, Westways, nonstoplife, SFGate, Crime Reads, The Guardian, Atlas Obscura, National Geographic Traveler, American Way, Hemispheres, Frommers, Variety and many others.

He is the author of "True Crime Burbank", the "Gourmet Ghosts" alternative guides to Los Angeles, and the award-winning true crime book "The Alaskan Blonde". He lives in Toluca Lake and, being from England, travels everywhere with teabags.