Alex Diaz-Granados
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A reading group comment from 2004 that I cherish:
We never forget, do we...
Outstanding! "Reunion" is full of honest emotion, mature reflection, and rich details that make the story real. A lovely and bittersweet memory that reminded me how important my high school days were to me.
We never forget, do we...
Outstanding! "Reunion" is full of honest emotion, mature reflection, and rich details that make the story real. A lovely and bittersweet memory that reminded me how important my high school days were to me.
On Resolutions, Realism, and the Year That Surprised Me alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/31/o...
On Resolutions, Realism, and the Year That Surprised Me
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 — Orlando, Florida Photo by Ann H on Pexels.com I’ve never been much for New Year’s resolutions. That just wasn’t the kind of tradition our little, lopsided family—Mom,…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
On Resolutions, Realism, and the Year That Surprised Me alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/31/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: After the Dance Ends...(an Excerpt from 'Reunion: Coda') alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/30/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: After the Dance Ends…(an Excerpt from ‘Reunion: Coda’)
Be like Lisa…get a copy of Reunion: Coda! Here’s a moment from Reunion: Coda that I’ve always loved for its simplicity and emotional precision. It’s the third and final vignette in the chapte…
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December 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Year's End, Big Thoughts alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/29/y...
Year’s End, Big Thoughts
Things On My Mind as 2025 Ends Photo by u00c7iu011fdem Bilgin on Pexels.com The Garratyverse It took me a while—47 years, if we’re being brutally honest—between the morning I told my mother over br…
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December 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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On Writing and Storytelling: The Music Behind the Words alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/28/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: The Music Behind the Words
Cover illustration by Juan Carlos Hernandez (C) 2023, 2024 ADG Books/Kindle Create The Music Behind the Words: How Soundtracks, Standards, and Serendipity Shaped the Reunion Duology Most writers ca…
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December 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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On Writing and Storytelling: Why Jim Garraty Isn't 'Self-Insertion' or a Gary Stu alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/27/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: Why Jim Garraty Isn’t ‘Self-Insertion’ or a Gary Stu
The two iterations of Jim Garraty (teenaged Jim, on right, and adult Jim, left) with Maddie. Why Jim Garraty Works: On Writing a Flawed, Decent, and Believably Human Protagonist Every writer eventu…
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December 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
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December 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Check out VisiOn on '@filmfreeway'
Reading in Rhythm: How the Reunion Duology Is Meant to Be Experienced alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/23/r...
Reading in Rhythm: How the Reunion Duology Is Meant to Be Experienced
Reading in Rhythm: How the Reunion Duology Is Meant to Be Experienced Every so often, an author gets a message that reminds them why they write in the first place. This week, I received one of thos…
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December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reading in Rhythm: How the Reunion Duology Is Meant to Be Experienced alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/23/r...
On Writing and Storytelling: How One Story Became Three alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/22/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: How One Story Became Three
On Writing and Storytelling: How One Story Became Three “I write for the same reason I breathe: Because if…
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December 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
On Writing and Storytelling: How One Story Became Three alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/22/o...
Musings for the Shortest Day of the Year - 2025 alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/21/m...
Musings for the Shortest Day of the Year – 2025
Sunday, December 21, 2025, Orlando, Florida It’s a nice early winter day here in my home state of Florida. Although it’s the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year and traditionally the fir…
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December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Musings for the Shortest Day of the Year - 2025 alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/21/m...
A Sunday Holiday-Themed Musicale alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/21/a...
A Sunday Holiday-Themed Musicale
Our Christmas tree (#1) is in the living room. circa 2021. (Photo by the author) Hi, everyone! It’s a chilly – by Florida standards and not by New England ones – Sunday morning in…
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December 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A Sunday Holiday-Themed Musicale alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/21/a...
Facing Sales Challenges in Self-Publishing alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/20/o...
Facing Sales Challenges in Self-Publishing
The Garratyverse Saturday, December 20, 2025 — Orlando, Florida This morning, I received my monthly email from Amazon Accounts Payable with my Kindle Direct Publishing royalties for November. Accor…
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December 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Facing Sales Challenges in Self-Publishing alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/20/o...
A Holiday Shopper's Guide to...'Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/19/a...
A Holiday Shopper’s Guide to…’Comings and Goings – The Art of Being Seen’
(C) 2025 Alex Diaz-Granados But I kept that night. I kept the way she looked at me afterward, the way her thumb traced circles on mine, the way she said, “You were here. That’s what matters.” ― Ale…
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December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A Holiday Shopper's Guide to...'Comings and Goings - The Art of Being Seen' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/19/a...
Documentary/Music Special Review: 'Great Voices Sing John Denver' alexdiaz-granados.com/2020/04/08/d...
Documentary/Music Special Review: ‘Great Voices Sing John Denver’
Placido Domingo (left) and Placido Domingo Jr. perform Perhaps Love in a segment of Kenneth Shapiro’s Great Voices Sing John Denver. (C) 2013 Great Voices Film Company and CDK Films Great Voi…
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December 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Documentary/Music Special Review: 'Great Voices Sing John Denver' alexdiaz-granados.com/2020/04/08/d...
The Journey of a Storyteller: Embracing the Art of Writing alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/18/1...
The Journey of a Storyteller: Embracing the Art of Writing
Thursday, December 18, 2025, Orlando, Florida “If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding…
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December 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A Holiday Shopper's Guide to...'Reunion: Coda' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/18/a...
A Holiday Shopper’s Guide to…’Reunion: Coda’
Kindle Edition Cover Design: Juan Carlos Hernandez “A writer hopes never to offend, but if he must, pray let him offend the gods before the reviewers.” ― Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Obs…
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December 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A Holiday Shopper's Guide to...'Reunion: Coda' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/18/a...
A Holiday Shopper's Look at...'Reunion: A Story' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/17/a...
A Holiday Shopper’s Look at…’Reunion: A Story’
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 — Orlando, Florida “Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it’s important to take that effort …
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December 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A Holiday Shopper's Look at...'Reunion: A Story' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/17/a...
On Writing and Storytelling: Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/16/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories
What “The Jim Garraty Chronicles” book looks like in Kindle Create. Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories Tuesday, December 16, 2025 – Orlando, Florida The Garratyverse If you’…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
On Writing and Storytelling: Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/16/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/16/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories
What “The Jim Garraty Chronicles” book looks like in Kindle Create. Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories Tuesday, December 16, 2025 – Orlando, Florida The Garratyverse If you’…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
On Writing and Storytelling: Wrestling with Subheads, Holding on to Stories alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/16/o...
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He’s bad at his job, so bad that I don’t need to say which job or which man and you already know.
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
He’s bad at his job, so bad that I don’t need to say which job or which man and you already know.
RIP, Rob and Michele Reiner alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/15/r...
RIP, Rob and Michele Reiner
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Monday, December 15, 2025 — Orlando, Florida Two years ago today, I arrived in Madison, New Hampshire, after leaving Lithia, Florida. That anniversary should…
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December 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
RIP, Rob and Michele Reiner alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/15/r...
Music Album Review: 'Band of Brothers - Music from the HBO Miniseries' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/12/m...
Music Album Review: ‘Band of Brothers – Music from the HBO Miniseries’
(C) 2001 Sony Masterworks Band of Brothers – Music from the HBO Miniseries: Music Composed and Conducted by Michael Kamen Label: Sony Masterworks/Sony Classical Artists: London Metropolitan O…
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December 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Music Album Review: 'Band of Brothers - Music from the HBO Miniseries' alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/12/m...
On Writing and Storytelling: Themes, Subtext, and the Uninvited Guests of Fiction alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/11/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: Themes, Subtext, and the Uninvited Guests of Fiction
Image Credit: Hannah Grace via Pixabay Themes, Subtext, and the Uninvited Guests of Fiction Thursday, December 11, 2025 — Orlando, Florida I don’t believe every novelist consciously aims to send a …
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December 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
On Writing and Storytelling: Themes, Subtext, and the Uninvited Guests of Fiction alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/11/o...
The Chronicles, the Coda, and the Chaos alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/10/t...
The Chronicles, the Coda, and the Chaos
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – Orlando, Florida I took this photo a decade ago during a trip to the Winn Dixie supermarket close to my former home in South Florida. Now that most of my belongings a…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Chronicles, the Coda, and the Chaos alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/10/t...