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.
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
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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
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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...
Reposted by Alex Diaz-Granados
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...
Life in the Time of COVID-19: How One Man's Indifference (Trump's) Has Shaped America's Response to the Global Pandemic alexdiaz-granados.com/2020/11/13/l...
Life in the Time of COVID-19: How One Man’s Indifference (Trump’s) Has Shaped America’s Response to the Global Pandemic
Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com Hello, there, Dear Reader. As I start this post, it’s 1:32 PM Eastern on Friday, November 13, 2020. Outside, the temperature is 82˚F (28˚C) under partly sunny ski…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Life in the Time of COVID-19: How One Man's Indifference (Trump's) Has Shaped America's Response to the Global Pandemic alexdiaz-granados.com/2020/11/13/l...
An Even Briefer Note from the Author alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/08/a...
An Even Briefer Note from the Author
I took this photo a decade ago during a trip to the Winn Dixie supermarket close to my former home in South Florida. Monday, December 8, 2025, Orlando, Florida This is just a quick note to let you …
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December 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
An Even Briefer Note from the Author alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/08/a...
A Brief Return to Miami on Pearl Harbor Day alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/07/a...
A Brief Return to Miami on Pearl Harbor Day
USS Phoenix (CL-46) steams down the channel at Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941. U.S. Navy photo Sunday, December 7, 2025, Orlando, Florida Sunday, December 7, 2025, marks the 84th annivers…
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December 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A Brief Return to Miami on Pearl Harbor Day alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/07/a...
Three Stories, Three Reviews alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/05/t...
Three Stories, Three Reviews
The Garratyverse Three Stories, Three Reviews Every great series is defined not only by the stories themselves but by the way readers respond to them. Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, and Comings a…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Three Stories, Three Reviews alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/05/t...
On Writing and Storytelling: Behind the Curtain - Marty's Origins alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/04/o...
On Writing and Storytelling: Behind the Curtain – Marty’s Origins
Marty Behind the Curtain: Marty’s Origins Ever since the day I first sent my novella, Reunion: A Story, out into the world back in 2018, the questions started coming. Sometimes they arrived shy and…
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December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On Writing and Storytelling: Behind the Curtain - Marty's Origins alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/04/o...
Three Masters, One Scene: Hasbro’s Jedi Council 1 Pack alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/03/t...
Three Masters, One Scene: Hasbro’s Jedi Council 1 Pack
(C) 2004 Hasbro and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) via Amazon Hasbro Star Wars Saga Scene Pack: Jedi Council 1 One of the most fascinating aspects of the Star Wars prequel trilogy is the glimpse it offers in…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Three Masters, One Scene: Hasbro’s Jedi Council 1 Pack alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/03/t...
Blu-ray Set/TV Documentary Series Review: 'The World at War' alexdiaz-granados.com/2021/06/01/b...
Blu-ray Set/TV Documentary Series Review: ‘The World at War’
On November 16, 2010, A&E Home Entertainment released The World at War, a nine-disc box set which presented the internationally-renowned 26-part British television documentary about the Second …
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December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Blu-ray Set/TV Documentary Series Review: 'The World at War' alexdiaz-granados.com/2021/06/01/b...
A Tuesday Musicale alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/02/a...
A Tuesday Musicale
(C) 1993, 2022 Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Geffen Music, Universal Music Group, & La-La Land Records Hi, everyone. I have a lot on my mind, most of it unpleasant and stressful, so…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A Tuesday Musicale alexdiaz-granados.com/2025/12/02/a...
On Writing & Storytelling: Trials and Tribulations, and Other Issues alexdiaz-granados.com/2023/03/16/o...
On Writing & Storytelling: Trials and Tribulations, and Other Issues
A “selfie” I took back in 2020. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway I have a confession to make. Sometimes, in my darkest…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
On Writing & Storytelling: Trials and Tribulations, and Other Issues alexdiaz-granados.com/2023/03/16/o...