Roy M. Griffis

It can be lonely, at times, but often we have companions in our battles.  Today, mine was BabyKat, although as you can see here, she was encroaching on my writing space just a bit.  She felt pretty guilty about it, I’m sure.

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40 years ago, the Washington Post and Gary Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” were all over White House scandals.  Today, not so much.

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Do you know what today is in American History? From the Right-Wing Riot:

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Remember when movies were “fun?”  They weren’t film, they weren’t cinema.  They were movies.  They weren’t trying to change your life — to quote an old movie mogul, Jack Warner, “If you want to send a message, use Western Union.”  Movies were willing to give a shot at changing your moments, like about 90 minutes worth of them.  And if you happened to see a really good movie, more than likely you walked away with a big, goofy grin on your face.

For the geekigentsa, the 60s and early 70s were a golden age of “film.”  The young turks were taking it to the Man and the System.  The Godfather.  Bonnie and Clyde. Midnight Cowboy.  All …

I’ve been doing some other writing these days.  My publishers, Liberty Island Media, have asked me to work on a sequel to “The Big Bang, Volume One of the Lonesome George Chronicles” or LG1 for short.  LG1 is due to be published later this year, and I’m about half way done with what I call LG2.

In addition to the work on that novel, I’ve recently started some irregular work for Pajamas Media, which is one of the original thorn-in-the-side-of-the-smug-status-quo blog sites, founded by some early and very respectable journalist bloggers.

I recently had one piece in PJM on “Rape Culture” and its elder enablers, called, oddly enough, “Sins of the Elders,” published in the PJ Tatler.…

My first novel, The Big Bang, Volume One of the Lonesome George Chronicles, will be e-published by Liberty Island Media next Spring, 2014.

Liberty Island  is a new web-magazine with ambitious goals:  to promotes the values of personal freedom and public liberty, and rejects all forms of orthodoxy, dogma and political correctness.  I’m honored they chose Lonesome George to be one of the first novels they are releasing.

And work on the website continues, that is, when I’m not completing the revisions of By the Hands of Men, Book Two:  To the Colonies and Beyond.

Thanks for stopping by!

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For my animal-loving friends.  Collects spectacular photos of animals large and small.

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I don’t think anyone decides “Hey, when I grow up, I’m going to be a felon.”  At age 6, I wanted to be an astronaut.  But I went wrong somewhere.  Can’t pin it on my upbringing:  sure, we moved around a lot, since my father was a career NCO in the Air Force.  But I stayed out of trouble and only have three months experience with drugs, back one summer almost 30 years ago.  After high school, I spent eight years in the Coast Guard.  In the years since, I completed college.  I became a member of a Union.  Married, with 3 adult children.  Own my own home, and worked my way up from a two-week temporary to department supervisor …

Cameron Griffis’ upcoming fantasy novel.…