Literary Fiction
Date Published: October 26, 2022
Publisher: MindStir Media
Sitting on a Rainbow: A 21st century Irish American Morality Tale, is a
story of severe loss and courageous resilience, financial markets and
malfeasances, Irish history and mythology, despicable greed and justice
rendered, and broken promises remaining to be mended.
Set in West Palm Beach, Fl. in 2013, or thereabouts, protagonist Patrick
Connelly (a.k.a. Paddy or Pat) is a mid-fifties paraplegic and veteran
stockbroker/financial adviser at a major Wall Street firm.
About the Author
First-time author James Patrick Rooney was born in Bronx, New York, raised
in Westchester County and has been living and working in Northern Palm Beach
County, Florida for his entire adult life. Young Jimmy’s first loves
included sports, particularly ice hockey, a variety of music and culture,
and his adopted homeland of Ireland.
When a hockey-related injury at age nineteen left him a paraplegic, he
turned his focus away from the physical toward developing his mind. Soon
after finishing college at then infamous “Suntan U,” he began a
successful thirty-year career in financial advisory with a major Wall Street
firm. About that same time, he met his enduring love – his family.
Married to Cindy ever since, together they’ve raised two superb
children, Patrick and Megan, who are now thriving young adults.
While managing an ambitious reading group (2005-2014), Jim was inspired to
write more competently (i.e., several college-level creative writing courses
and other modes of self-learning). To hone his skills he wrote short
stories, imaginary book reviews for his reading group, and later edited and
authored articles for the lifestyle website Throomers (2018-2020). After
stepping away from financial advisory in 2014, he began working on his first
novel. As is often said, starting with a few core ideas the story then wrote
itself.
Part memoir, part fiction, part fantasy, Sitting on a Rainbow is an honest
look at living with disability, while it also offers an insider’s view
of retail financial advisory and celebrates the current-day relevance of
Irish history and mythology. Jim hopes his lighthearted, romantic,
suspenseful, and cautionary morality tale will entertain all who come and
sit on the rainbow with him.
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