Who is James Pratt?

James Pratt is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling fiction author. Called “… a master of moral fiction” by Booklist, his novels are filled with history, conflict, and romance. People Magazine billed Jim’s breakout novel, The Last Valentine (1998-1999) “...a return ticket to Bridges of Madison Country territory.” The Lighthouse Keeper, (2000-2001) and Ticket Home (2001-2002) consistently hit bestseller charts around the country. Kirkus Reviews called the trio, “...the fictionalization of The Greatest Generation,” for the vivid portrayal of love and war in the days preceding and following of World War Two.

Paradise Bay, (2002-2003) is a coming-of-age story geographically set between LA and an abandoned fishing hamlet just north of Santa Barbara. Paradise Bay holds secrets for a musician son who never knew his Vietnam War hero father. Sweeping back to transitional years of the 1950s-60s with social changes, music, and horrors of Vietnam, we see a young and aspiring “piano man” drafted, seriously wounded, as his music sleeps with him for thirty years. He will awaken from a battle induced coma to a new world, a son he never knew, and a love he had thought lost forever. The Good Heart, (2005) depicts the entrapping of three troubled lives, one beating heart, and an unsolved mystery. Set in the fast-paced, power-hungry climate of the nation's capital and Tallahassee, FL. Jim’s novel combines political and medical intrigue with passion and danger while unraveling the mystery behind a brotherly pact that has lain hidden for forty years. A film script is now in development, with the paperback scheduled for 2009.

James Pratt's work is inspired by many actual personal events, history, and his unique views of life. While influenced by heavy research, his tone shows a fondness for the observer cultivated from his earliest days of imagination as a carefree ‘60’s boy at play in the fields and hills near the old Corriganville movie ranch sets in Simi Valley, CA. Fluent in Spanish, he often uses the language and settings of old California and the Southwest to add color, realism, and flavor to his stories. In memoirs created as tributes to everyday parents, James Pratt reminds the reader in DAD, The Man Who Lied To Save the Planet and MOM, The Woman Who Made Oatmeal Stick to My Ribs, of a time and place when seemingly complex matters of life had simple, straightforward answers colored by time honored and traditional virtues and values.

James Pratt’s newest offerings include: The Christ Report, and AS A MAN THINKETH…In His Heart, both novels, the latter being inspired by the timeless 1902 classic, As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen.

In addition to James Pratt’s literary novels he is the co-founder of PowerThink, LLC, a company dedicated to the improving of individual lives in all areas of human performance. For more information on the writing career of James Pratt please visit his personal website at: JMPratt.com.