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James Caterino is a man searching, and like so many of us, he knows not why. Most people on such a quest end up finding solace and escape in religious extremism or fringe political movements. But for James, all the answers to his restlessness are revealed in a cultish activity of a different sort, the surreal sport of bodybuilding. Unfinished Business: My Journey Back into Competitive Bodybuilding at Sixty-One, is a compelling memoir, a heartfelt and humorous story, and an insightful and revealing look inside the strange and often misunderstood world of bodybuilding. James J. Caterino is ...

Action Stories is an exciting collection of six sensational stories from James J. Caterino, the author of Fantastic Stories 3, Ghost Stories, and Time Travel Stories. A drive home from the airport turns into a harrowing, dystopian nightmare in the action-adventure horror episode Wrong Turn. When sixteen-year-old Gina is on a babysitting job, she and the kids witness something they were not supposed to see, hurtling them into a deadly day of harrowing danger in Rollercoaster. Barry Baton dies in a car accident and is cryogenically frozen in suspended animation. When the technology to bring ...

An epic, glorious one-hundred forty-six page collection of sketches, drawings, paintings, and cover art, Four Color Crack: The Best Artwork of James J. Caterino, is packed with irresistible imagery from pop culture, movies, music, fashion, and the author's personal sketchbook. A beautifully packaged 8.5 x 11 inch artbook, Four Color Crack is a must own for art addicts, illustration fans, and lovers of high-quality, super cool coffee table books.

Jenna is stalked by a sinister man in a mask on the eve of her eighteenth birthday in The Man in the Window. What does he want, and is he even real? The Man in the Window is an action horror short story from James J. Caterino, the author of Time Travel Stories, Ghost Stories, Romance Stories, True Stories, To Meghan, and much more.

A drive home from the airport turns into a harrowing, dystopian nightmare in the action adventure horror episode Wrong Turn, a riveting new short story from James J. Caterino the author of Night Skies, The Anti-Matter Girl, Time Travel Stories, Fantastic Stories 3, and much more.

All About Laurie is the epic collection of all four real-life true stories about an extraorinary woman lamed Laurie who has changed the author's life forever.

Chris Banner travels to a cabin in the mountains where he plans to commit suicide, but his plans are changed by a mysterious force of energy in The Entity. A lonely man pining away for a lost love and a chance not taken finds a way to change everything in Blair: A Time Travel Story. A drive home from the airport turns into a harrowing, dystopian nightmare in the action-adventure horror episode Wrong Turn. Read these and many more exciting, entertaining works of short speculative fiction in Fantastic Stories 3, a brand-new epic collection of ten fantastical short stories from James J. ...

Chris Banner travels to a cabin in the mountains where he plans to commit suicide, but his plans are changed by a mysterious force of energy. The Entity is a Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Amazing Stories style short story from writer James J. Caterino, the author of The Green Girl, The Selfie, The Man in the Window, Time Travel Stories, Ghost Stories, Escape to Nowhere, and much more.

The Original Songs of James J. Caterino: An epic collection of original song lyrics about life, love, and pop culture, with illustrations and vintage pictures is packed with entertaining, moving, often insightful original song lyrics, along with gorgeous photographs and cool original artwork. A must-own guilty pleasure for poetry lovers, illustration fans, and pop music addicts.

When a Partridge Family like band came to perform at my elementary school in March of 1974, it provided an epic moment in my life. A funny and nostalgic coming of age short story, My Encounter with The Partridge Family 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.

The Best and the Worst Concert Ever: Why The Warning is Awesome, is an essay about a concert that was, as the title says, the best, and yet the worst concert ever. From writer James J. Caterino. the author of Cool Stuff, Reviews and Essays, True Stories, True Stories 2, Escape to Nowhere, and much more.

James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Culture Musings and other Stuff, and over forty novels and short stories, returns with his second non-fiction book, this one focused on movies.Among the films covered in this entertaining, insightful book of essays, are classics such as E.T. (1982), and Enchanted (2007), vintage blockbusters like Total Recall (1990) and T2 (1991), cult movies such as Billy Jack (1971), Videodrome (1983), Dirty Dancing (1987), Wall Street (1987), True Romance (1993), and Exotica (1994), underrated gems such as The Fury (1978), Explorers (1985), The Age of Adeline (2015), ...

My Top Ten Favorite Books of All Time is and essay by James J. Caterino, the author of My Encounter with the Partridge Family, sort of, What If, Girl Pop, Make Me Cry Please, The Girl Out of Time, Romance Stories, To Meghan, True Stories, Time Travel Stories, and much more.

An essay by James J. Caterino, the author of Romance Stories, Reviews and Essays, To Meghan, True Stories, Time Travel Stories, Ghost Stories, and so much more,

Jenna is stalked by a sinister man in a mask on the eve of her eighteenth birthday in The Man in the Window. What does he want, and is he even real? Two astronomers make first contact with another life form, forever changing both of their lives in The Andromeda Girl. In Jade, a writer at a comic book convention buys an illustration of a beautiful woman he has seen in real life. He becomes obsessed with finding out who this mysterious woman is. Sixteen-year-old babysitter Gina Zeneski takes the kids for a day at the amusement park and gets more than she bargained for in Rollercoaster, a ...

Pulpy supernatural horror short story from James J. Caterino the author of The Séance, Psychic Murder Incorporated, Time Travel Stories, The Promise, Pop Star, Watch the Skies, The Last Neanderthal, The Girl from the Stars, 50 Films, and much more.

Jack Trainer is a sales executive working for the fossil fuel industry and as ruthless as they come. Then one day he meets environmentalist Kara Jones and Jack experiences something he can’t explain. Something fantastic and wondrous. Something that will change him forever. In the tradition of “The Twilight Zone”, “The Outer Limits”, and “Amazing Stories”, “The Green Girl” is an epic, page turning tale of fantasy, romance, and suspense, from the imagination of acclaimed writer James J. Caterino, author of “Watch the Skies”, “The Girl from the Stars”, and “Super ...

Reviews and Essays: Cult films, underrated movies, forgotten TV shows, pop culture, and other cool stuff is the fourth non-fiction review book from James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Culture Musings, 50 Films That Mattered to Me and Why, and Fantastic Films, Cult TV Episodes, and Perfect Pop Songs. In this book Caterino covers the neglected 2023 blockbuster The Flash, the underrated Jessica Chastain vehicle Miss Sloan (2016), the misunderstood Passengers (2016), cult movies like Joe Dante’s Piranha (1980), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Pump Up the Volume (1990), Sam Raimi’s The ...

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.

U.S. Navy fighter pilot Captain Brin Fallon is the best of the best. She is chosen as the test pilot for a new quantum invisibility drive and is accidentally sent back in time to 1942, at the peak of WWII in Europe. Facing a sky full of Nazis and a skeptical Allied command, Brin will have to use all of her skills to survive in the past and get back to the future where she belongs. “Super Hornet 1942” is another intense, action-packed work of epic imagination from acclaimed writer James J. Caterino, author of “Fireflies”, “Fantastic Stories”, “The Girl from the Stars”, and ...