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Room Twelve
305 pages, Paperback
Published February 18, 2026
About the author
James D. Reginato
2 booksJames D. Reginato is an Australian writer, musician, and former law student whose work explores resilience, identity, chronic illness, and the quiet strength that emerges when life changes without warning.
In his early twenties, a sudden and unexplained health collapse fractured the life he had been building. Only weeks earlier he had been studying law, anchored in structure and future plans. Soon after, he was confronting physical instability, uncertainty, and the disorienting loss of independence. The shift was not gradual. It was absolute.
Writing became a necessity rather than a pursuit. It offered a way to translate upheaval into meaning and to reclaim a voice within a life shaped by unpredictability. His work is developed gradually and intermittently, within the limits imposed by his health.
He is the author of Quiet Endurance, a memoir of survival within chronic illness, and Room Twelve, a psychologically charged novel exploring perception, control, and the fragile boundary between reality and distortion.
You can reach James by email at reginatowrites@gmail.com
In his early twenties, a sudden and unexplained health collapse fractured the life he had been building. Only weeks earlier he had been studying law, anchored in structure and future plans. Soon after, he was confronting physical instability, uncertainty, and the disorienting loss of independence. The shift was not gradual. It was absolute.
Writing became a necessity rather than a pursuit. It offered a way to translate upheaval into meaning and to reclaim a voice within a life shaped by unpredictability. His work is developed gradually and intermittently, within the limits imposed by his health.
He is the author of Quiet Endurance, a memoir of survival within chronic illness, and Room Twelve, a psychologically charged novel exploring perception, control, and the fragile boundary between reality and distortion.
You can reach James by email at reginatowrites@gmail.com
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