Location: United States
Member Since:
June 29, 2011
Jim Cort
Biography
Jim Cort is a New Jersey native who has supported himself by writing most of his adult life. His first published story was "The Reaper," which appeared in Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine in September, 1982. The story was an entry in the magazine's first short story contest and finished in the top twenty from a field of over nine thousand.
Throughout the eighties Jim sold stories, poems and articles to Twilight Zone, Reader's Digest, The New Yorker and other magazines, anthologies, and online sites. He has also worked as a corporate trainer and technical writer, and produced hundreds of manuals, training aids, and courses. In 1988 he began writing radio plays, which have been produced on audiocassette, and on the air at radio stations across the country, including National Public Radio.
A retired teacher, Jim has taught writing at the Northern New Jersey Reading Council's Young Author's Conference, the Summer Institute for the Gifted at Drew University, and at the Adult Career Center at Sussex County Technical School.
Jim was a contributing editor to Learning Through History magazine, and author of a column on business writing WordWorks. He lives in Sussex County with his wife Louise, three daughters, two birds, two dogs, and several uninvited mice.
Throughout the eighties Jim sold stories, poems and articles to Twilight Zone, Reader's Digest, The New Yorker and other magazines, anthologies, and online sites. He has also worked as a corporate trainer and technical writer, and produced hundreds of manuals, training aids, and courses. In 1988 he began writing radio plays, which have been produced on audiocassette, and on the air at radio stations across the country, including National Public Radio.
A retired teacher, Jim has taught writing at the Northern New Jersey Reading Council's Young Author's Conference, the Summer Institute for the Gifted at Drew University, and at the Adult Career Center at Sussex County Technical School.
Jim was a contributing editor to Learning Through History magazine, and author of a column on business writing WordWorks. He lives in Sussex County with his wife Louise, three daughters, two birds, two dogs, and several uninvited mice.
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Books
Before I Wake script and story
by Jim Cort
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 6,040.
Language:
English.
Published: March 15, 2015
.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » General, Plays » American / African American
David Conklin has a problem. Somebody's trying to kill him in his sleep. How long could you hold them off? How long could you stay awake?
This edition includes the original radio play and the original published story, as well as an introductory essay detailing the curious history of this story since 1988.
The Lonely Impulse
by Jim Cort
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 68,470.
Language:
English.
Published: July 15, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
Costigan was ex-IRA. He'd seen more than his share of killing and he wanted no more of it.
They picked him to track down Willy Dowd because he had a score to settle. And they offered him 50 thousand dollars.
But there was more to the job than money, more than he bargained for. He found betrayal and murder, and nuclear blackmail.
And a ghost that had haunted him for a dozen years,