Slade Grayson – Page 3 – Vintage City Publishing

January 13, 2022January 18, 2022

What Are We Doing and Where Have We Been?

The authors at Vintage City Publishing get lots of questions like, “Where do you get your ideas?” and “How do you come up with such interesting characters?” and “When are you guys going to pay your bar tab?”

But the most common question is, “What are you working on now?”

We thought we would put the question to our current stable of writers and see what they’ve accomplished in 2021, and maybe a sneak peek at what they have planned for 2022 and beyond. So without further ado…

March 8, 2021

New from Slade Grayson:

January 4, 2021

Maybe Today

“Hellerman Retirement Home.”

The name is on the front of the building and printed on the stationary provided to the residents. Stationary most of them don’t use. Why bother? No one answers.

You wrote letters when you first arrived. Your children didn’t respond. They said,

“No one writes letters anymore. People text or email.”

November 29, 2019

My Brief Fling With Hollywood

Maybe I’m wrong, but I think just about every writer has the dream of seeing their work adapted for television or the movies. Or anywhere, really, where our work will get exposed to a wider audience.

I’ve always thought my book, AUTUMN MOON, would make a great television series. Or at the very least, a movie (with options for sequels, of course).

It was about two years ago when I came across a Facebook post from a friend.

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019

VINTAGE CITY AT AWESOMECON 2019!!

DO YOU LOVE THINGS THAT ARE AWESOME!?!?

Continue reading “VINTAGE CITY AT AWESOMECON 2019!!”

April 3, 2019April 13, 2019

Tattoos And The People That Love Them (a.k.a. This has nothing to do with writing.)

I always liked tattoos.

My brother’s friend had two full sleeves, and a few on his chest and back. The running joke was, he couldn’t walk past a tattoo shop without stopping inside to get one.

An exaggeration, of course, but he did have a lot of tattoos. So many, they blended together on his arms into a swirl of Jackson Pollack-type images and colors.

I thought that was too many. I like tattoos where you can tell what the individual image is. It stands apart from the others, like a panel in a comic book. My brother’s friend had so many on his arms, they were a blur.

March 19, 2019

Interview With Author Timothy Johnson

1. What made you want to be a writer?

It was probably a mixture of narcissism, masochism, and the right teacher in the right class telling me I had potential in something when I felt I had potential in nothing but had to decide what I was going to do for the rest of my life.

I took a creative writing class in college when I didn’t have a major, and when I started writing, I thought I was brilliant. At the time, I had been writing songs, so it seemed natural that I’d become a poet (because that’s a practical decision in this world). Then I was in a room with friends who literally laughed at my work, and I realized I wasn’t good.

February 21, 2019

SLADE 2.0 (a.k.a Children Are The Future)

My six year-old son and I play a game he calls “Voices.”

It’s called Voices because I do different voices of different characters, and it developed from when I would play with him with his stuffed animals. I gave each animal a different personality and they, along with my son (as himself), would get involved in various adventures.

January 26, 2019January 28, 2019

GLASS is a good movie and anyone who disagrees is wrong.*

*If you haven’t seen the movie and are planning to, you probably want to stop here. Come back after you’ve seen it.

Now…

Full disclosure: I’m a fan of UNBREAKABLE. I liked it better than THE SIXTH SENSE. I’ve watched it probably six or seven times. And every time I’ve watched it, I manage to pick up something new I missed the previous times.