Call me James, Giacomo, or Jim. In French class it was Jacques. Life experiences provide enormous material for my writing. Stories of transformation are central to my work and may live beyond my expiration date. Blue collar jobs paid for my education. I know work in grimy factories, machine shops, lumber yards, moving companies, hardware stores, heavy equipment, and golf courses. I also majored in psychology by day and worked the graveyard shift as a Psychiatric Nurse at a men's maximum security ward. My career spanned leadership roles in social work, human resources, executive search, strategy management, executive education, and corporate governance. Now I write fiction full-time. My creative wife Judi and I reside in Naples, Florida, and Gloucester, Massachusetts with our wise beagles, Lucy and Jenny.