John Grabowski
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John Grabowski

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Northern California

John Grabowski grew up on the east coast and now calls Northern California home. He has worked in print, advertising, and television news. He is currently a web designer who enjoys classical music, films, art, travel, and web design. He's working on his first full-length novel, Entertaining Welsey Shaw, the story of an ordinary person who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a spectacularly famous movie star. 

 

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Violet is a shy barista, asked on a date by the equally-shy Roger, who has recently become a regular at Gold Cup Coffee. Both have the night of their lives. But starting the following Monday, Violet begins evading Roger and lying to him every time they meet—and Roger begins second-guessing eve...
One brother's homecoming sparks family rivalries and resurrects old insecurities in a small Ohio town at the dawn of the 20th century.
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A funeral is an event where you tell a lot of pleasant lies and face a lot of unpleasant truths. This is an excerpted portion of a chapter from the novel-in-progress Entertaining Welsey Shaw.
Freespirit is a novella "about the last 15 years or so," and how living with money for that period of time changes Stevie Williams in ways she cannot imagine the first day she knocks on the door of a Chappaqua mansion in 1991.  
For Julie Sato, an open house in a Philadelphia suburb is more than just a chance to see some real estate. WARNING — Explicit Content. Not safe for children.  
You think your lovelife is complicated? Try dating Death.  Andrew meets her at a party: Death. She's  beautiful, sensitive and fun, not at all like the typical image of Death, despite the scythe and the cowl. She becomes his soul-mate. But Andrew finds it harder and harder not to think ab...

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