Jim's Books
Imagine the honor of being able to live and work within your passion. That’s my life. Besides earning a living at the keyboard, I’ve had the absolute joy of creating many books, I also have a tv series, and I've penned a screenplay.
My Latest Book-Just Published in 2025 Tells you how to Start Loving Longevity.
Maybe you don’t want to be 91 (as I am), but I’ll bet you’d like to never wake-up depressed. This book is a wake-up call for You to Face Reality with satisfaction and accomplishment. It's not like any other Help Yourself/Better Yourself book you've ever read. From your relationship with your Mother, your bathroom (no, it's not scatological), from dealing with Dementia, finding your inner-creativeness, to stop kidding yourself about your health & living habits, or wondering why you bothered to wake up today, Flaherty gives you specific lessons for living better. He even thoughtfully reveals a private part of himself. You'll be sorry if you don't start LOVING LONGEVITY today.
Buy "Loving Longevity"
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Let me tell you about Dear Old Friends and Embrace Your Age
DEAR OLD FRIENDS started out as a love letter to all the older, wiser people who helped me make so many decisions in my early years. I found the letter 46 years after I wrote it, and then wrote this book around that letter and those memories. I hope you have older, wiser friends in your life, too. EMBRACE YOUR AGE is very different. Every chapter asks a question you should be able to answer. Questions like: If you don’t have friends, why should I talk to you? Are you someone worth looking up to? How are you going to handle it when “they” die? Reading it will help you answer those and other meaningful questions.
Summary of DEAR OLD FRIENDS & EMBRACE YOUR AGE
"Stay Young, Stop Thinking Old, And Love Your Life Every Day."
And They're All Available, Now
It’s easy to buy - on Amazon.com - here is the link to buy DEAR OLD FRIENDS - https://www.amazon.com//dp/B09MJGH2DZ/
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HERE ARE MY NOVELS:
Romance, sex, international travel, birth, death, marriage, and murder- but best of all...
The brilliance, beauty, and strength of women’s friendships with other women.
Summary of THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME:
Imagine the honor of being able to live and work within your passion. That’s my life. Besides earning a living at the keyboard, I’ve had the absolute joy of creating three books. The first two are novels—birth, death, romance, sex, Broadway, travel, marriage, divorce, high and low life—wonderful stories to curl up with or enjoy someday on the big screen or TV.
Imagine being able to re-invent yourself a new face, a new vocabulary, a new point-of-view, even a new history. Exit Bethel Sokoloff, enter Bettina Marshton. She worked very, very hard to inhabit the new skin she invented, to speak the new language, i.e., Fluid-Privileged, to wear the clothes Bethel never even considered, to walk their walk. The net? The girl who’s no one from nowhere becomes the golden girl, married to a princely type, the world, even Broadway, at her feet. She will be enveloped in love and passion and loss and betrayal. And because she’s a scam, she’s easily scammed.
Big Hurdles to Cross
There are big hurdles—a frosty blue-blooded mother-in-law, who finds Bettina too practiced, too rehearsed. She questions Bettina’s background, her naïveté.
When Bettina finds true love, if indeed she can recognize true love, can she keep it? Is “I will love you forever” long enough? Bettina is a dream creation, likeable, lovable, infuriating, amazing. Besides untold wealth, and all that it provides (and demands), there is travel at the highest level, and three men, each of whom would give his life for her. When her world comes crashing down around her, who will matter? Who? The women who have become her friends. There’s nothing stronger than the friendship of women.
Roller-Coaster Life
Her new life is a roller-coaster of dazzle and disaster. There’s a loving friend, Lisa, whose humor and adoring friendship helps carry her through the worst of the worst. You will be proud of “Bettina,” at times dismayed, but never bored. Look into her lives and loves and louses, and try to walk in her shoes. Could you play that role? And of course, like all of us … aren’t you playing a role? THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME.
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Summary of CLARE: WIFE, MOTHER, MISTRESS... Murderer?
In today’s world, there are many wildly successful women. Imagine how much more difficult it was for them to shoulder all the requirements of being 1. A wife 2. A mother 3. A human in her own right 4. And then, on top of it all, a successful executive in the edgy world of the stock market.
A Finely Tuned Mind
Clare O’Brady Glickman was all of that and more. She’s terrific. Besides her finely tuned mind, it doesn’t hurt that she’s drop-dead beautiful. All the parts work—her smile warms a room, her eyes see and understand everything. Her friends and clients adore her, even her employees love her. And her Mother (wish we all had a mother like hers) worships her beautiful daughter. You’ll like her Mother, too. Not just growing old gracefully, she’s discovered a passion—no, not that kind of passion—but standing at an easel—and she’s honestly talented.
Back to Clare
This is a woman who’s made so many of the Right Decisions, it’s hard to understand how and why she would be married to a man like Richard. Her taste and gentility were often overshadowed by his vulgarity and lack of humanity.
Her Love
One man, you’ll like him, has loved Clare since she was a newcomer to the exhausting and exhilarating world of Manhattan, where her feminine appeal didn’t always lead her down the safest, calmest streets. You’ll get to know Carl very well, and learn to count on his obviously heartfelt feelings for Clare. Can one care too much? Ask Carl.
You’ll enjoy a brief escape visit with Clare to the lush tropical charm of the Virgin Islands, where fate introduces her to a terrific woman. Rita is her name, and she’s actually as likeable as Clare. She’s beautiful, successful, a devoted heart-and-soul mother, and becomes the love interest of a sweet guy, Gordon, who accidentally fell head-over-heels-out-of-his-mind in love with Clare.
Where? In a flawless country inn while visiting England’s romantic lake district. Gordon doesn’t score romantically, but he does leave a smiling memory of his face & personality with Clare. Turns out, Gordon, like Clare, is a Wall-Streeter.
The Story Continues
Meanwhile, life goes on in Manhattan. And Clare is subject to Richard at his worst, in a restaurant, with some despicable people at their table. Words, nasty ones at that, are exchanged, the net has Clare walking out. To any observer, had you heard the language thrown across the table, you would not be surprised to learn Clare was the main suspect when Richard was found murdered the next day.
A New Realization
Court cases bring out the best and the worst of everyone. Clare felt fortunate with her attorneys, the very best the loving Carl could find. And there were many surprises, some bad, some excellent, as the various witnesses took the stand. Maybe there will be a new realization, a discovery. And there were.
The court cases also attract people you might not expect. When one of the “despicable” from that night took the stand, Clare trembled. But what happens when beautiful, appealing people meet? Can common sense smother the emotional fireworks?
Read the Entire Story
I hope you will open your hearts and minds to Clare and Carl and Rita and Gordon, as they search for the right path to his or her promised land—a jail cell? Or maybe a bed?
Come be part of her life… CLARE: WIFE, MOTHER, MISTRESS… Murderer?
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