James Terminiello retired after a forty-plus-year career in marketing, public relations, and communications with organizations as diverse as a British fashion company, a newspaper, and a New York accounting and consulting firm. He has since written more than 250 newspaper columns and blogs and authored a four-part Roman satire series, Caligula's Kitchen, along with several novels, including Junkyard and The Conscience of the C.O.D. Married for more than thirty-eight years, James has a son and a daughter.