28 Jun Good things
It's been a hell of a day. I said goodbye to a Good Woman, stolen by cancer at the too-young age of 60. I was sitting here staring at the picture taken off her and her husband at my signing for SABRE-6, and ...
Author: Leigh Grissom
25 Jun Buried treasure
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] An email was resurrected last night and shown to me by a dear friend. The date is December 10, 2001, and it came from one of my old addresses (kids, ask your parents or grandparents about WebTV). I...
17 May MIRROR MAN
Mirror Man © 2020 by Leigh Grissom May 1, 2021 I think I’m losing my mind. I must be. Diaries are stupid and I don’t have time for this. I’d love to talk it out with someone, but they’ll just eyeball me like I’m a loony and I don’t...
12 Apr Deep Thinking
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I've failed at regular updates. In my own defense, the times we're living in now, this "new normal" (God, how I hate that phrase), has made day-to-day existence an anxiety-filled rollercoaster. Even in this tiny town I live in,...
01 Feb WORLDWITHOUTEND, AMEN
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] WORLDWITHOUTEND, AMEN © 2020 by Leigh Grissom Featured in the March 2020 issue of The Scribe (Breaking Rules Publishing) They come. They always come. It doesn’t matter if they’ve heard the stories. It doesn’t matter if they’ve been warned. They come. They always come. And by the...
27 Jan Time
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last night, LeBron James passed Kobe Bryant as the 3rd all-time leading scorer in the NBA. Tonight ...
04 Nov The Conference Death Match of 2019
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I attended my first writer's conference last weekend. I know, I'm impressed, too. And boy, did I learn a lot. I'm grateful I went. I met a lot of writers, had a bang-up hotel lunch, and had a crash course...
01 Sep Network Execs and the Death of Original Ideas
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I check headlines sometimes. I shouldn't. Last week, I opened an article discussing the 26 reboots coming soon to a network near you. 26. Twenty-six. TWENTY WHAT IN THE HELL SIX. Let that sink in for a minute. I'll wait. Maybe I'm...
24 Aug AUGUST 24, 2017
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two years. How time flies when you finally stop denying the fire that fuels your soul. August 24, 2017. The day my dream finally came true. It only took fifteen minutes after I hit "publish" on CreateSpace for KLS-9...