James is the author of fifteen screenplays and three novels adapted from their original screenplays and available on Amazon.  BUCK and the ANGEL, A COP’S STORY and BLOODY BUSINESS are available in the Kindle book store in digital download and paperback.  James’ character, Travis Starr, returns from A Cop’s Story, retired and now a private investigator in Bloody Business.

James’ screenplay, THE SHELTER, was optioned once in 2003 by Anything but Hollywood films, and again in 2006 by Ryan Harper of Your Half Pictures in Los Angeles.  The Shelter was also the winner of the 2003 Anything But Hollywood screenplay competition.

COMANCHE CARL was a semi-finalist in the Table Read My Screenplay 2022 genre competition in the action genre.  COMANCHE CARL was previously under option with Fever Kid Films and Two Joker Films both in Dublin, Ireland.

James’ screenplay, Buck and the Angel, was named the bronze winner in the 2019 Page Awards Screenplay Competition in the family genre.  James’ screenplay, MONEY, a crime/drama, is on the RED LIST in Coverfly and the top 1% of all scripts on the site.

James has just completed his latest screenplay, “Shooter on the Grassy Knoll,” a completely original screenplay best described as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” meets “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

“Shooter on the Grassy Knoll” has recently been honored with multiple nominations and awards in the Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival.  Below is a link to press coverage about James and the screenplay from Movie Maker magazine.  Scroll down until you reach, “Shooter on the Grassy Knoll.”

https://www.moviemaker.com/best-of-lonely-wolf-22lwiff.../

James resides in Newnan, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.  James took it upon himself to learn the art of screenwriting by exploration of the internet and books on the subject.  James’ connections to his writing comes from various entities that have usually touched his life in some form of self-experience or knowledge of another’s experience.  Even the vast number of films he’s seen in his lifetime stay with him in his writing.

James’ personal Logline would be: James is a writer who loves giving life to new characters and original stories.

James C. Schlicker               

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