Award Winning Author

Author of The Screaming Stone & Pete's Crossroad

Hi--I'm J.P. Osterman...

The Screaming Stone, my YA novel, I now have as a 2nd edition on ebook sites and through Infinity Publishing.  I'm so excited about all the edits I made to the novel...thanks to bloggers to whom I sent ARCs especially.  You gave me great insights and valuable suggestions for improvements.  Thanks!

You can read a portion of the 2nd edition of The Screaming Stone in the "excerpts" section above.  I just know you'll like what I've done.  For me, it's one of those rare times in life, after completing a dream project, that my eyes filled with tears.  I must admit, I'm proud of The Screaming Stone and happy that I wrote it.  Into The Screaming Stone, I injected my heart-and-soul.  I hope you enjoy the story as much as I enjoyed writing it!  Agents and editors have always told me:  It's a good story that sells...it's because of a good story that people read.

The Screaming Stone is the first in my Marcie and Robbie series.  I researched Irish Myths and weaved a few into my story to bring action and "connection" into the lives of characters.  This story takes readers on a touching adventure from a broken childhood to the discovery of a pre-historic cave.  As I wrote the book, I asked myself the question: How do members of families connect with one another?  The answer?  Doing things together! That's The Screaming Stone, and I set the novel in the mid-western landscape of southern Michigan, on a farm, where kids sometimes tend to get bored.  But Marcie, Robbie and Frankie know how to kill time.  They're investigative, mischievous and inquisitive...that always leads to...t r o u b l e...and discovery.  Fun.  Check out The Screaming Stone for yourself.  That first few pages will grip you!

My career includes extensive writing.  I graduated from the University of San Diego with a BA in English (emphasis Writing), an MA in Education from Azusa Pacific University and taught high school English and writing for 8 years in Southern California.  I also have attended Texas State studying graduate psychology.   I won the prestigious Rupert Hughes Award at the seminal Maui Writer’s Conference and First Place at the Southern California Writer’s conference for my one-act play, The Man Next to Me. 

For eight years, I taught English at public schools in the San Gabriel Valley near Los Angeles.  The El Monte Union school district honored me with an Outstanding Teacher award for my writing student’s literary prizes including - 1st thru 4th place – 4 years in a row in the 3 million student Los Angeles County competition.

Writing a book is the art
of listening to oneself.

JP Osterman

The Screaming Stone

As I mentioned above, the 2nd edition of my new book was just published, and I am already excited about my readers' responses because The Screaming Stone is a YA novel that is different from all my others.

Marcie’s a trouble maker. Robbie is wild. Breaking into their ancestor’s tombstone, they unearth a treasure map that kick starts them into a fantasy world fueled by their grandparent’s Irish stories.

And if you want to know a little more, click here.