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A Little Bit About Me

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Hello, and welcome to my website! I'm James Stryker, a writer who dreams of being read. I'm proud to be among the award-winning, NY Times, and USA Today bestselling clients of BookEnds Literary, represented by Moe Ferrara. My first novel, Assimilation, is now available from Pan Macmillan, and my second and third novels, Boy: A Journey  and The Simplicity of Being Normal, are available through NineStar Press! My first short story, Intransigent is also featured in Serendipity Literary Magazine.

I currently live in small-town Pennsylvania, though I grew up in Ogden, Utah. How did I make it here? There's no better reason for a cross country move than to be with the love of your life (a
writer of the young adult variety, constant inspiration, and expert maker of fajitas). I'm a foster dad of a sweet little boy, and I also share a residence with a pack of pugs who keep my world full of strange scents and my sweaters covered in fur.

Until I’m able to do nothing but write (Walden with Wi-Fi), I'm part of the leadership team at a customer service center where my primary responsibilities include project management, data gathering/analysis, and photoshopping mustaches. When not writing, I can be found reading, listening to opera at obscene decibels, wearing pedantic vests/sweaters with large buttons, and trying to figure out who in our neighborhood has fabric softener that smells like Dr. Pepper.


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The Prophet of Yonwood
Germinal
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
The Book Thief
The Princess Bride
The Wings of Merlin
The Mirror of Merlin
The Incorruptibles: A Study of Incorruption in the Bodies of Various Catholic Saints and Beati
The Age of Reason
Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America
The Lost Years Of Merlin
The Stain of Treason
The Fires of Merlin
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The King's Favourite Son
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie
Do No Harm: The People Who Amputate Their Perfectly Healthy Limbs, And The Doctors Who Help Them
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter


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