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In the fall of 1982 Jim went away to college for his freshman year to embark on the next phase of his life and there, he met a trio of girls with whom he formed an instant connection. This is the story of that friendship. A funny and nostalgic coming of age story, Nancy, Debbie, and Kathy is another entertaining true tale from the pen of James J. Caterino, the author of Method Acting, To Meghan, and How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter.

Sharon is an archaeologist who discovers an ancient Native American burial site. But one of the remains does not belong there, a skeleton from the recent past. Sharon is mesmerized by the skeleton and drawn toward a ring on the decayed corpse. She takes the ring, puts it on her own finger, and it changes her. She begins to have visions of a past event, a violent, traumatic attack. The visions and the power of the skeleton ring take over her life. Her only way to stop it is to solve the dark mystery behind it all, no matter how dangerous and deadly it may become. “The Skeleton Ring” is a...

Jim has always dreamed of being a film director. After decades of false starts and disappointments, he finally catches a break when his twenty-year-old supernatural horror screenplay Steel Phantom strikes Hollywood gold and he becomes attached as the director. He signs a major star talent to play the female lead and the shoot starts off as a smashing success. Then, as the intensity of the production ratches up, the lines between film and reality blur and Jim finds himself living in the world of his own creation, where the danger is deadly, and the horror is all too real. James J. Caterino ...

Ghost Stories is an epic collection of novellas and short stories featuring six spooky tales of supernatural suspense and mesmerizing horror from the prolific imagination of James J. Caterino, the author of over sixty published works including Time Travel Stories, Pop Star, The Promise, Starfighter Year 1, and The Geek Girl and The Quarterback.

An illustrator at an ad agency creates a drawing of a woman taking a selfie for a smart phone ad campaign. Then, he comes across a real-life, living version of the exact same woman and image. In the tradition of "The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", and "Amazing Stories", "The Selfie" is a bold, shocking, romantic, unforgettable short story from the lurid imagination of James J. Caterino, author of “The B Girl” and “Caitlin Star: The Trilogy.”

How I Became a Stockbroker is a funny, nostalgic, and entertaining true tale from James J. Caterino, the author of Why I Don't Drink, Method Acting, To Meghan, and How Not to Become a Hollywood Screenwriter.

What If is an essay about the power of daydreaming, and why you should never, ever, ever, become a writer. James J. Caterino is the author of Jordan Rose and the Tomb of Resurrection, The Anti-Matter Girl, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, Pop Star, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, and much more.

Thirteen-year-old Anna escapes the horrors of Nazi occupied Warsaw and joins the underground. Under the guidance of a resistance fighter known as the Captain, she learns to survive, to cope with devastating loss, and to fight back. Every day is a challenge, and every mission is a battle against impossible odds. Then one night two allied planes fall from the sky, and everything changes in this action-packed, epic tale of despair, heartbreak, hope, and the triumph of the human spirit. “The Promise: A World War II Story” is a riveting, decades-spanning, sweeping story, and an emotionally ...

Deeply personal, extremely self-indulgent book with something to offend almost everyone. Read at your own risk. You have been warned. True Stories is an autobiographical memoir by way of a short story collection. Each story is based on a real-life event experienced by the author. There are stories about best friends, mentors, lost loves, beloved pets, fanatical obsessions, an encounter with a Partridge Family style band, stories about being a stockbroker in the roaring 80s and 90s, pitching screenplays in Hollywood, the real story behind some of the author’s books, and even a dangerous, ...

In a dystopian world, Caitlin Star lives in the Congo rainforest with her animal and human friends, protecting this last paradise on Earth. After ten years of peace, her home is threatened by a new evil in the form of a ruthless tyrant who rules the remains of what was once America. To battle this new enemy, Caitlin finds she must travel back to her birthplace where she will face grave danger and new challenges beyond anything she could have imagined. The Legend of Caitlin Star is an exciting, brand new stand-alone Caitlin Star adventure from James J. Caterino the author of Caitlin Star: ...

The crayon blue sky. The calm, clear, glassy water. And a destination that included lunch on the water and a famous bikini contest. It was the ultimate South Florida day for five guys to be out on a boat. But soon alcohol and unforeseen events turned this perfect day into an absurd nightmare and a dark, comic adventure. Why I Don’t Drink is a harrowing and hilarious true story from the pen of James J. Caterino, the author of To Meghan, Method Acting, and The Geek Girl and the Quarterback.

Inspired by pulp fiction, comic books, and real life, Romance Stories is a swoon worthy, entertaining, addictive collection of love stories, ranging from the epic to the intimate, including time travel and supernatural romances, film noir love stories, love at first sight stories, steamy encounters, and much more. Love American Style meets The Twilight Zone in Romance Stories. James J. Caterino is the author of over one-hundred published works including Musical Poetry, Reviews and Essays, True Stories, The Anti-Matter Girl, Pop Star, The Promise, and Time Travel Stories.

Feeling isolated and lonely during a pandemic quarantine, writer Jimmy Barton throws himself into a new project, a graphic novel called 1987. It is the story of Jennifer, a lost love from his past that never was. As he writes and draws, the focus of his work intensifies and becomes obsessive, until one day, he draws Jennifer into his life for real, straight out of the pages of 1987. Jennifer the Sketchbook Girl is a delightful, addictive, funny, suspenseful, and romantic tale of imagination from James J. Caterino, the author of Super Hornet 1942, The Green Girl, The Mesomorph, and The Girl ...

One night while cleaning out the garage, John finds an old address book and discovers it possesses a powerful link to the past, beyond anything he could have imagined. The Address Book is a short story by James J. Caterino, the author of Ghost Stories. The Girl From the Stars, Reviews and Essays, Pop Star, The Promise, The Anti-Matter Girl, To Meghan, True Stories, Time Travel Stories, and much more.

Because sometimes, we just need to cry. Make Me Cry, Please is an essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Reviews and Essays, 50 Films, My Encounter with the Partridge Family, sort of, The Girl Out of Time, What If, The Address Book, and much more.

An essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Girl Pop, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, The Geek Girl and the Quarterback, The Last Neanderthal, Pop Star, The Girl from the Stars, and Watch the Skies.

Girl Pop is an essay about my favorite sub-genre of music. James J. Caterino is the author of Jordan Rose and the Tomb of Resurrection, The Anti-Matter Girl, Dreams, True Stories, To Meghan, I Want to Believe, Ghost Stories, Pop Star, Time Travel Stories, The Girl from the Stars, and much more.

Alycia is on the trip of a lifetime. She is deep in the rain forest of the Congo Basin, conducting field research for her doctoral thesis in Anthropology. She leads a team of fellow students and a professor. All is going well until they come across a murderous group of poachers who hold them at gunpoint, determined to torment the group of academics before leaving them for dead. Things get ugly and all appears lost, until, a mysterious bare-chested man appears, giving the poachers more than they bargained for. They say he lost someone in one of the countless American mass shootings. They say...

Part animal. Part legend. All woman. Caitlin Star: The Trilogy, is a collection of the first three action-packed books in the controversial Caitlin Star series, collected in one volume for the first time ever. All three books are newly edited and contain brand new, never before read scenes. Also included is a ten page sketchbook of illustrations by the author, all exclusive to this special-edition collection. Caitlin Star (book 1) Gunner Star takes on Caitlin as his protégé and trains her in the ways of the Bull Mongoni, a mythic species of hominids that lived long ago. An exciting, brave...

Gina Torres is an elite senior college basketball player and a national star on the verge of becoming the number one pick in WNBA draft. Everything is happening just as she had dreamed and planned. Until one day, she finds herself in 1963, in the same town as a twenty-five-year-old version of her grandfather, and a beautiful young woman who she falls in love with. The Girl Out of Time is a rousing, romantic time travel adventure by James J. Caterino, the author of The Address Book, Time Travel Stories, Ghost Stories, Pop Star, The Promise, The Anti-Matter Girl, and much more.