Holly James

Holly James combines a background in psychology with romantic comedy and lightly speculative premises. The Déjà Glitch: A Novel places radio producer Gemma Peters and screenwriter Jack inside a repeating Thursday, but only Jack remembers their many attempts to escape it. Dutton issued the book in 2023, and Penguin Random House classifies it as romance and women’s fiction. James’s own book page describes the story as a closed-door romance set around the Los Angeles music industry. The time-loop device lets her examine memory, trust, friendship, and the difference between instant attraction and a relationship built through repeated choices. James holds a PhD in psychology and has worked in academic, medical, and technology settings, experience that gives useful context to her interest in how people understand themselves and one another.